Thanks to all for the replies. Marty

Would Anyone know if any of the "Butter Dish" Milk Tank cars that Borden transferred from Milk hauling to Elmer's Glue hauling, "Chemical Division"Would Anyone know if any of the "Butter Dish" Milk

Blue Flag....Rule 26 on most railroads doesn't have much bearing on the Canadian incident.....Blue Flags protect  workers working on or about the cars that are protected by a blue flag....even

John Sykes wrote: Might be worth pointing out that these images are of OSHA-standard signs, long postdating this list. Before 1960, signs were different -- and not standard. Tony Thompson

Thanks, John. Richard

Thanks, John. Richard Hendrickson

Richard: That is one type of "Blue Flag" protection. Take a look here: http://www.aldonco.com -or- http://www.aldonco.com/products.aspx?sec=2&cat=114&subid=20 Lots of fun toys for the 12" to the

Richard Hendrickson wrote: One is in the email to you. Tony

Somewhere I've seen a photo of a blue sign attached to a tank car unloading track reading "Stop - Tank Car Connected" or something to that effect. But now, of course, I can't recall where. Can

At least a few others on the list know this, Tom, but Brian may not want his intentions made public yet. In any case we don't know which of the many Scullin freight car trucks he's tooling, and

Hi Richard, I would really like to see an end shot of a DL&W 47000-47999 car when you have time. I gather from an earlier post that you are quite busy now - any time when life is a little less full

Rich, The next truck that Brian Leppert of Tahoe Model Works is workin g on will be a Scullin Truck. At present a delivery date has not been announced as Brian has just released the Barber S2 truck

Marty From those specs the cars sound like 4-bay offset-side ARA hoppers, originally 70 ton cars. Tim O'Connor

One correction, Mike. All the cars were delivered with Youngstown corrugated doors. The Superior 6 panel doors didn't begin to replace the corrugated doors until the mid-1950s. Richard

I have good photos of these cars, ends, sides, roof and even the undersides. Lackawanna got 'em with both Youngstown and Superior doors and the cars wore all three DL&W paint schemes. They were not

Marty McGuirk wrote: Not necessarily. Grab irons and other hardware on the outside of the car can account for such dimensions. Morevoer, the rib depth on a conventional ribbed hopper would

For a friend who's looking for some details - preferably photos - of Ga&Fla hoppers. "I stumbled across a listing for an ORER for my prototype that shows some hopper cars that were previously

Would Anyone know if any of the "Butter Dish" Milk Tank cars that Borden transferred from Milk hauling to Elmer's Glue hauling, "Chemical Division", were painted in any other color other than White,

I've posted the final summary of some freight car kit builds on my blog. Eight HO scale resin freight car kits were built over a five week span from late April through early June. The builds are

I'm already engaged in that process, Charlie, and do not need the issues confused. It is why the question was raised in the first place. My thanks to Richard and others who have responded with