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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So what happened to the Belkins? I loaned them some boxcar slides back in the mid-80s and never got them back. I wish that had taught me to never loan out originals to manufacturers except I did it

Brian, I think the weights being referred toare the same as the old A-Line product. Depending on their weight, they could bealmost square to rectangular and flat. Chuck Hladik In a message