The bottom line to this discussion will be written on modelers layouts. Since I have not yet had one of the new Kadees (or Accumates) to play with, I can only make an educated guess as to how they'll

Jon Miller wrote: No, as the (twice delayed) deadline prohibiting arch bars in interchange took effect in mid-1941. Anyway, the prototype cars were delivered with ARA cast steel trucks with spring

Richard, One more question on the COSX D-X billboard cars. In my time frame with the KC brakes would they still have archbar trucks? Also are those LOC photos accessible by internet? Jon

I've seen only two photos of ART crs in this scheme, and both were belt-rail cars (i.e.,postwar cars with improved Dreadnauight ends and horizontal rivet seams in the middle of the side

Tim - I've been working on our Red Caboose and MDC sections, so BY COMPARISON Intermountain is a breath of fresh air. But I am entirely in the dark on the 60 foot flats (Richard's answer to the

John Nehrich wrote [ *begin sarcasm* ] Come again? Has Intermountain discontinued its entire product line and introduced another?? [ *end sarcasm* ] None of the steel reefers are truly accurate

Intermountain does really well with sticking with the right paint schemes on the right cars. But does anyone know of any ART cars leased to Royal (with the big placard on the side) that were NOT

Richard - I thought so. But with traditional Athearn, Tyco, etc., the sound I would like to hear with all the lights out is them hitting the concrete floor - the most desperate form of kitbashing. -

That's correct, John. The original black overnight paint scheme was applied to B-50-24 class cars in the 97620-98069 series, built in mid-1946, which were 10'0"IH AAR-design cars with improved

I think Byron exagerates the difficulty of using a closer to scale draft gear. For one thing, on a model coupler the amount of swing as measured by the deflection at the coupler face depends on the

On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:47:04 EST MDelvec952@... writes: <snip> Mike, the answer is that they can't because they have to sell to modelers who would never build layouts with scale curves. What

Both Intermountain and Red Caboose offer their 1937 AAR box car in the SP's Overnight scheme. As I understand it, this scheme was ONLY applied to cars built with Improved Dreadnaught Ends (but were

I have nine sets of Cal Scale #AB-284 brass AB brake sets. One pack was originally priced $1.50, seven were $2 and the other was $3.75. I don't know where they all fall on the degradation curve, but

Byron: Unfortunately I am aware of this degradation of quality problem, since I still have some Cal-Scale K brake sets purchased directly from John Anderson in the early '60s (mostly on cars I must

Picked up a couple of sets of the new scale Kadees, No.58s, yesterday. Overall, not bad looking, and more realistic than the old reliable predecessor. I put them on a couple of cars and a caboose,

On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:59:52 -0500 Kathe Robin <kathe@...> writes: Max, What Lee neglected to tell you was that they did such a poor job of tooling it that anyone who's knowledgeable will

John Nehrich asked: John, you can look up the AAR type designations in the back of any ORER. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Tim: Do you have any Cal Scale K brake sets , plastic or brass, which you would be interested in selling? I'll pay more than fair

Tichy makes excellent KC and KD brake sets, and I have tons of leftover KC gear from kits. (99% of my stuff uses AB or later brakes.) I suspect one reason the CalScale AB set is selling slowly is that

Be aware that Cal-Scale (Bowser) has PERMANENTLY discontinued their part #199-290 and #190-291, which were KC brake sets in plastic and brass respectively!! The mold is worn out/damaged, and since