While at a train show I pick up an E&P Associates General Steel Industries 58 ft Depressed center Flat car. It was made by Samhongsa. It has solid bearing trucks. It was an impulse buy but it was

Alerted by the news that Sprue Brothers was stocking their interesting saws and other cutting tools, I logged onto the website of this Irish company and found many interesting tools:

Richard, You have this one backwards. That little car had such a significant impact that it was never duplicated and never ran on any railroads after it's trial. What other refer can boast of 100%

---In STMFC@..., <csxt5555@...> wrote Does anyone know if any other railroads had the 1929 Pullman standard outside braced sawtooth boxcar like the SOO had? Also how about the earlier fish belly car

Brian Is this a recycled Steam Shack kit? Back around 1990 Steam Shack produced several variations of the CV single sheathed box cars. And directions were not especially helpful. I'd say compare your

I believe that when Intermountain does RTR Red Caboose PFE reefers, they are putting Accurail "Bettendorf" trucks under them. At least that is the case with cars I have bought. Ed Sommer San Jose,

Robert, they are still the 3 piece trucks. Ed Sommer San Jose, CA

Bob, inquiries about this car turn up periodically on this list, and the answer is always the same: it was a singular experiment and, as it turned out, a dismal failure. This rigid wheelbase four

Another image: http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16003coll2/id/12062/rec/34

I came across this reference to a petite refrigerator car: “During the 1930s, the North American Car Company produced aone-of-a-kind, four-wheeled ice bunker reefer intended to serve the needs

Al, The date of the photo is ~1911 so this O-17 built in 1906 is only about 5 years old. As I recall, these hopper bottom gondolas did have some problems in the early 1920s, mostly failures around the

Need to know postage amount and where to send check....Thanks....Larry Mennie

The trucks in question for our NP 39000 series kit are not included in the kit. They are a modified Kadee product, you can source on your own. Pierre

I noticed an ACF stencil on the cars. Apparently PE5500-5599 were ACF lot 6039 ordered in 8-10 and built at the Peninsular plant inDetroit. Must have been built late 1910 and no earlier than October

Hey Yuze Gize, With the revised instruction sheets being posted to the SHAKE_N_TAKE Groupthis evening we are ready to move forward. Things I know you will need for the CNW/CMO owned and RI

Richard Hendrickson wrote: I'm glad that worked for you. I tried the same idea, but my CA job did not hold adequately (I used a different primer -- could be my problem), and the trucks are now long

Schuyler posted this to the SHAKE_N_TAKE group this evening. Greg Martin Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs throughit. Norman Maclean

All true, but it’s a simple matter to assemble the RC trucks, make sure they are aligned exactly right, and CA the side frames to the bolsters. The side frames will still be flexible enough to

I will try to find this sequence in the scrapbooks and get a positive set of dates. I know Mr. Barriger was only on the TP&W for 6 months in 1942. (The Puerto Rico Shots on Flickr appear to be from

The PE diagram says built by National Dump Car, 1910. Tony