John Degnan asked: "I've never bought a pair of Tahoe trucks... what is their price per set?" $8.35 per pair with your choice of wheelsets. See the linked order

The steel car ferry Ashtabula was jointly owned by CPR andPRR running between Port Burwell, Ontario and Ashtabula, Ohio from 1906 to 1958 primarily to transport coal for CPR locomotives. She was

Many images are around of PRR H12 hoppers carrying CPR loco coal in Ontario. Here's one-- http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR_Bruce/orangeville_coal.jpg

I've never bought a pair of Tahoe trucks... what is their price per set? And to the SAL-familiar modelers here... would these trucks be appropriate for SAL's (1950s) fleet of these Stewart hopper

Jim Mischke asked: and Ben Hom answered: Ben is correct. Stewart provided plain or roller bearing ASF A-3 trucks depending on roadname. For a long time these were the only 70-ton A-3s available.

Jim Mischke asked: When I researched the kailon business 25 years ago I found an circa-1960 textbook that contained exactly one paragraph on kaolin slurry. Translation: for a 1964 layout slurry was

Jim Mischke wrote > My off-layout paper mill in Johnsonburg, Pa. in 1964 may needsome kaolin clay The earliest I've seen of a kaolin slurry tank car is the 1960's. The earliest CofG covered hopper

Tony, I think that's unfair. I appreciate having 'official' colors butI've seen enough photos of freshly painted cars -- and seen enough actualchips of paint from other railroads -- to know that

Hi A photo of one of these boxcars as GM&O 20188 surfaced on the 'bay. One of Ted Culotta's auctions. At first I thought it was some kind of War Emergency boxcar but the Howe truss is wrong (and

Hi, We're talking about "box car red"/tuscan/red oxide/freight car brown/etc. aren't we? Tony is right about "there is no one paint color/shade that is perfect" ... for any RR for any era ...

It was a wharf, on the PRR, thus, no PRR hoppers left the US! Coal was loaded on lakers via gravity.

Actually from Sodus Point, NY, via the old PRR coal loading wharf there (burned down in ?1972?). This was on the PRR line from Canandaigua. I believe the branch from Southport, NY.

Chuck Peck wrote: No, of course drums of paint from different sources differed, But not that much. The SP paint chips from the 1920s are a good match to the 1994 chip for Freight Car Red

Garth Groff wrote: Nobody listens, Garth. On paint SCHEMES I do try to help. With paint COLORS, no. Everyone has an opinion, few agree with each other, and it's a waste to typing muscles to chime

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Those three different mixes may all have been perfect for some SP car at some date. Personally, I doubt that every drum of freight car red paint bought by the SP over some few years all matched

Friends, I'm surprised Tony hasn't jumped in on this, but I just checked his book SOUTHERN PACIFIC FREIGHT CARTS, V. 5, HOPPERS, COVERED HOPPERS, TANK CARS. On page 424 there is a 1956

JM, Engelhard did not get into the kaolin business until 1963 according to this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelhard . IIRC, kaolin was shipped in boxcars,

B&A ribbed and offset side hoppers could be found far from home in dedicated service seemingly unrelated to B&A. Example from 1965-1974: J&L Steel opened a new iron ore mine called Adams at

Jim Mischke asked: "I have a small fleet of Stewart offset triple hopper cars with 1950's road names waiting for assembly and service. I do not recognize the trucks. The top sideframe arch looks a