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Re: KCS #20820 and 20834 missing from 1949 ORER?

Bill- If you are looking for the former Front Range 50' cars, they are still available, having been picked up years ago by Accurail. Yes, they acquired molded on ladders, brakes and hand grabs. The FR

By Andy Carlson · #136207 ·

Re: Hacking (not the electronic kind)

The Athearn ACF CenterFlow (much beyond our era) has nicely done TIG welds, if they were on a No 1 gauge car; otherwise way oversized for HO. I do admire the tooling. Ron's mention of the Branchline

By Andy Carlson · #136206 ·

Re: KCS #20820 and 20834 missing from 1949 ORER?

Hello Group, These cars sound interesting to me, if for no other reason than being 50-feet long and built within my modeling era. I just went to the Walthers web site and did a search but failed to

By Bill Keene <wakeene@...> · #136205 ·

Overexposed, but still, freight cars

http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-08-09-15/C1417.jpg Harlem Transfer, DL&W, date unknown Schuyler

By Schuyler Larrabee · #136204 ·

Re: Hacking (not the electronic kind)

I can see the reason behind this. In HO, these seams are just too small to distinguish the individual ripples of typical arc welding. I know, somebody (Athearn?) actually tried to simulate the weld

By mopacfirst · #136203 ·

vacuum

Al, have you considered using an old fashioned laboratory aspirator, a device which uses flowing water to produce a vacuum? How 'bout a vacuum cleaner? Ed Mines

By ed_mines · #136201 ·

Re: KCS #20820 and 20834 missing from 1949 ORER?

Hello Everyone, Can't explain the discrepancy but can say that: Pullman-Standard built 20800-20809, 10 cars, in 1935 and 20851-20900, 50 cars, in 1941. From the time they are first listed in the ORER,

By Eric Lombard · #136200 ·

Re: SP Ogden Yard 50s - Bad News?

Hi, Photo and album removed from PHOTOS. Please use the following link http://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Roger-Kingsford-Photos/ and PLEASE continue the discussions/threads related

By Jim Betz · #136199 ·

PRR X29D box car questions

Yesterday at the Collinsville RPM meet I purchased a F&C PRR X29D box car after viewing a photo of a car with the large shadow keystone logo. From a little online research I learned the F&C model

By Nathan Obermeyer · #136198 ·

Re: KCS #20820 and 20834 missing from 1949 ORER?

Don’t be too quick to judge Walthers as doing something inaccurate. In as much as we know it happens. The accuracy of The ORERs’ isn’t 100%, as I have found dates on cars in photos that don’t

By Rich Yoder · #136197 ·

Re: Hacking (not the electronic kind)

That's a useful suggestion. I hadn't seen those before, perhaps because of where they are listed. I parted with my last Front Range cars a few weeks ago, courtesy of someone on this list who has a

By mopacfirst · #136196 ·

Re: Photo Of Assorted Boxcars

Hi Bob, In the far-left foreground is a Santa Fe raised-roof Bx11 or Bx12 class. Either of these can be represented in HO by one of my favorite Westerfield kits. (See "Build resin freight car kits"

By Andy Sperandeo · #136195 ·

Re: Front Range

I've got one of the D&RGW cars under construction on my workbench. Beautiful gold & silver cars. I've decided to remove the floor and replace it with the vastly superior Accurail underframe -- which

By Tim O'Connor · #136194 ·

Re: KCS #20820 and 20834 missing from 1949 ORER?

Perhaps it is because the Walthers cars are bogus in that they should have car builder type ends. Barry Bennett, Coventry, England.

By Barry Bennett · #136193 ·

Photo Of Assorted Boxcars

This undated photo from another source (I can’t rememberwhere I originally saw it) was reposted on the O Gauge Railroading On-LineForum: http://tinyurl.com/p77mm2s While the detail

By thecitrusbelt@... · #136192 ·

Re: Front Range

schuyler.larrabee@... [STMFC] wrote: Schuyler, The version of the Improved Dreadnaught ends of the Front Range Products 5000 model represent prototype 50'-6" box cars built in 1955 or later.

By Ed Hawkins · #136191 ·

Re: Hacking (not the electronic kind)

Can you please expand on that comment? Aren’t the seams welded ??? Best to ya, Mike Bauers Milwaukee, Wi

By mwbauers · #136202 ·

Re: Hacking (not the electronic kind)

You don't want to use Archer's weld lines, you want their panel seams. Tom Madden

By Tom Madden · #136190 ·

Re: vacuum

On 8/8/2015 8:08 PM, Alfred Westerfield westerfieldalfred@... [STMFC] wrote: Should be able to find a good used one for that price. Also look at Harbor Freight as they

By Jon Miller <atsfus@...> · #136189 ·

Re: Hacking (not the electronic kind)

In response to Ron Merrick's email Ben Hom writes inpart: Ben Hom< Ron, Ben's right, removing the rivets from an existing freight car is far easier and more productive cutting a kit

By Greg Martin · #136188 ·

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