Tim, What would be so surprising about that? The Boston & Maine was offering "Freightainer" service in 1928 with containers about twice the size of those the Youngstown offered some ten years

Al, I used a Sears and Roebuck 3/4 hp portable running it backwards on the plumbing to achieve the vacuum needed to debubble the investment for lost wax casting. It had enough vacuum to cause water

Tim, Yes it is. In the late 1950s, the B&O and the MP instituted a special Baltimore to St. Louis COFC service using custom designed containers and special flat cars to carry them. Part of the need

Tim: This is not a standard container chassis,not there is no provision for locking/attaching the container to thechassis. This is for a special unit that attaches to it. Not forregular COFC

Reposted the file with corrections provided by the ACL/SAL group (Buddy Hill), added an IH column for the appropriate cars & corrected formatting errors. This last issue was created when I converted

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /Freight Car

Thanks. Much better images. Steamtown will be advised. Schuyler Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 8:05 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: RE: [STMFC] Overexposed, but still, freight cars

could this be the correct date -- 1957 ? did the B&O operate COFC this early? http://www.ebay.com/itm/381256721186 Tim O'Connor

This is probably a pointless note, but since I have six or eight of the Life-Like original kits I went to check if any were KCS. Sorry to report none are, they're mostly NYC and SP. Still, there are

Eric and Bill: Interesting mystery, and it leads to more questions. It doesn't appear that those missing numbers were ever filled. It looks like the Walthers people made an error <SHOCK!> . . .

Schuyler, Believe the link to the Harlem Transfer scan is printed backwards. Several links to this and other scans of Harlem Transfer were posted by Mike Del Vecchio to the STMFC back on 9-28-12.

I believe for my modeling needs either the Walthers Proto or the Proto 2000 kit will do just fine. We shall see which kit I stumble across first at the local swap meets. Again, thanks for all of the

Ed - No, have you? - Al Westerfield On Sunday, August 9, 2015 10:31 AM, "ed_mines@... [STMFC]" wrote: Al, have you considered using an old fashioned laboratory

Tim O'Connor wrote: And as many on this list know, Larry was closely advised by Richard Hendrickson, and there was much mutual respect between the two. Tony Thompson Editor,

Proto 2000 -- 30351 KCS #20855 kit Other car numbers probably in that vicinity -- 3034x or 3035x Tim O'

I work in heavy industry manufacturing………….. ‘WE’ build giant mining shovels, so the welds are suitable for plate more than sheet welding, and that’s what I’m used to seeing. I have

I worked through several box car builds recently and used a few uncommon tools; a grab iron bending jig, a color wheel, and a model stand for painting. Details are posted at my blog so modelers can

please note that these item numbers are for the cars with wrong road numbers (ie walthers proto)... I don't know what the item numbers were for the original proto 2000 cars was

Thanks Tim and Tom, Now I can order some. Cheers Dave North

Hello Group, Thanks to all that responded to my request for info on these cars. I will keep an eye out for them at the local swap meets. One would be a good addition to the layout fleet. Cheers, Bill