John Evans wrote: "If the question about the air line is in reference to the rebuilt cars (42000 series) the attached photo of 42060 posted by Ray Stillwell on the Railfan.net LV forum might

If the question about the air line is in reference to the rebuilt cars (42000 series) the attached photo of 42060 posted by Ray Stillwell on the Railfan.net LV forum might help.  John Evans Easton,

I fail to see why a manufacturer SHOULD (as opposed to could) care if his item is copied as long as the new product was not produced in his same scale. I mean, why would an HO manufacturer who

John Last fall I was given the use of a $150,000 3D scanner for 4 hours scanning specific areas of a boxcar. It was a massive clunky “THAT is $150K” looking thing. In spite of getting the scan

Hi Jon...do you have a like to that web site?... Bob Slavinski

On 3/12/2014 5:48 PM, rwitt_2000@... wrote: I know the early ones has detail on the inside (rivets, board lines, etc.) and the later castings didn't. The sheet shows

Did the R-40-4 and R-40-8 classes have four poling pockets or two? David Thompson

For further clarification there is a web site with scans of the instruction sheets for the Ulrich

As did I, Ben, and I second your apologies. Not having an Ulrich gondola model or kit, I trusted my increasingly porous memory andI made the same mistake. Too bad Ulrich didn’t adopt the same

I wrote: "You haven't been paying attention.  As Richard Hendrickson posted a few days ago, the Ulrich [War Emergency gon] model features separate pieces for the truss and sheathing, so there is no

There was a large disbursement of privately-owned hoppers and gondolas circa 1922, prompted by one of those ICC rulings. A few of the larger fleets stayed private (Berwind, Westmoreland, Koppers), but

That was the car that PRR backdated for display at the 1939 World's Fair. It eventually found its way to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. David Thompson

Al Westerfield wrote: Yes, that clinic was indeed printed in one of the NMRA History Symposium books. In the 1990s, I organized a series, called Symposium on Railroad History, at each NMRA

Lou, Photos in an article in the Oct 1938 Railway Mechanical Engineer "Lehigh Valley Cuts Down 70-ton Hoppers to 50 Tons" as well as other photos show the airline running on the outside. I think

As described in my clinic Billboard Reefers and Other Disasters: HowGovernment Regulations Affected Car Building, ICC regulations forced privatecoal companies to divest themselves of their cars, not

I have more rolling stock than required. I have an Athearn 65 ft Mill gon in ATSF GA-47 Built 1937 reweigh SB 6-43. I think this is from the first release a few years ago. Asking $16.00 plus USPS

From a 1904 topo map, Ellsworth was adjacent to Bentleyville, It was on the PRR Monongahela & Washington Branch Rich Orr

Elden Gatwood wrote: "Here is an interesting shot: http://cdm16038.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15017coll8/id/2682/rec/985 ....and the fact that they deliberately call it a

The coal mines were in the Pittsburgh area and wentto Lackawanna Steel in 1907. Eric

If it was taken in 1939, the car hasapparently been back dated as a historical item. Before 1911, two hand brakesweren't uncommon. Of course, the second hand brake was made obsolete by the 1911Safety