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Re: Accurail B&O hopper car herald

I misspoke. The linking B&O linking 13 states herald was used in only three sizes, 12", 25", and 36" (not 33 inch), between 1945 and 1963. The 12 inch herald was for flat cars. The 25 inch was

By Jim Mischke · #131213 ·

Re: painted, wood RTR cars

Jim: You are correct “Pacific Traction” atleast I got half of the name correct. Thanks Paul C. Koehler From:STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 201512:05 PM To:

By Paul Koehler · #131211 ·

Re: painted, wood RTR cars

There was Pacific Traction {wood/painted/lettered/many roads) freight cars, produced I believe by a doctor, as patient therapy, in San Diego......The cars were less trucks and couplers and I have a

By Jim Williams <wwww5960@...> · #131210 ·

Re: Car Weights

I got 0.015625 pounds, but who¹s counting? Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Reply-To: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 1:54

By BRIAN PAUL EHNI · #131212 ·

Re: Car Weights

Arved stick to photography, you're a little weak in arithmetic... :-) Try 500,000 lbs divided by 30,000,000 -- that's 1/4 oz per car per year, or an average of one stick-on weight per car. Which is

By Tim O'Connor · #131209 ·

Re: painted, wood RTR cars

Gary: You might be thinking about “PacificHO” out of San Diego they did produce wood cars like you describe that wevery close to an SP 1 ½ single sheathed boxcar. My recollection was that

By Paul Koehler · #131208 ·

Re: [EXTERNAL] RE: Re: Container gons from NKP (UNCLASSIFIED)

My 2 cents again. Those Youngstown bulk containers (as modeled by Walthers) take up the full width of the gondola if you load them crosswise. If you load them lengthwise, you can get 2 abreast. In

By Tim O'Connor · #131207 ·

Re: Car Weights

At least as long as lead-acid batteries remain popular, I'd say. It's been pointed out that there are roughly 30 million cars registered in California. Divided by 500,000 lbs of lead, that means the

By arved_grass · #131206 ·

Re: Car Weights

On 1/20/2015 11:06 AM, Tim O'Connor timboconnor@... [STMFC] wrote: Good thing they are not used in freight cars or no trains would be running. And as for the way back

By Jon Miller <atsfus@...> · #131205 ·

50 ft SS box cars

Few if any didn't have fishbelly underframes and I cant't think of any 50 ft SS box cars that had composite ends except SP. The kit was a hybrid of Qcraft's 1974 40 ft MILW SS, door and a half box

By ed_mines · #131204 ·

Re: [EXTERNAL] RE: Re: Container gons from NKP (UNCLASSIFIED)

I am of the opinion that all these containers are the same size and shape. In the car on the right you can see containers next to each other, crosswise and lengthwise. It's clear to me that the width

By hayden_tom@... · #131203 ·

painted, wood RTR cars

I dimly recall that a company advertised in Model Railroader early in the1970s as selling RTR (no trucks) painted and lettered wood freight cars. Does anyone recall the name of the company and more

By gary laakso · #131202 ·

Re: Bananas

Mike wrote: > , if we allowed hundreds of messages about bananas > on the STMFC, surely we could allow at least some > discussion regarding the locomotives that pull the > cars containing said

By Tom Madden · #131201 ·

Re: Car Weights

I expect supplies will be plentiful for a long time -- at least for my lifetime. Even 500,000 lbs is barely 1/1000th of US lead production.

By Tim O'Connor · #131200 ·

Re: History of Bev-Bel

As an obvious aside here, BevBel also produced plastic O scale car kits under their name, which were from the 1970s Atlas O scale line. BevBel offered theirs in road names that Atlas did not use. Ed

By Edward · #131199 ·

Re: History of Bev-Bel

Tim, I worked with both firms over the years and do not believe there was ever any connection between Bill & Ellen Glass' two "companies", E&B Valley and Robin's Rails, and the Belkins other

By Don Valentine <riverman_vt@...> · #131219 ·

Re: History of Bev-Bel

Bev-Bel and Karline provided variety in freight car decoration back in the dark ages when manufacturers thought one paint job and roadnumber was sufficient per railroad and kept that same car in their

By Charlie Vlk · #131198 ·

Re: Car Weights

Not just California: "Lead wheel weights have been under attack for several years by environmentalists. They were banned by the European Union in 2005 and are being phased out in Japan and South

By arved_grass · #131197 ·

Re: UTLX Tank Car Designations

Dave Parker wrote: I very much doubt this was true. UTL almost certainly had a definite system. We just don't know what it was. Remember that Type 21 refers only to the underframe. Tanks

By Tony Thompson · #131196 ·

Re: Car Weights

Ah. My luck with foam stick on weights is that they don’t. In my book, they are fine is the car is never going to leave the track or not be stored upright. But never store on their side, as the foam

By BRIAN PAUL EHNI · #131195 ·

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