not on Jan 1940 Rich Orr

Aha! A Google search for “Dryflow tank car” returned this hit. Scroll down about 2/3 page for photos of a Dryflow tank

This car number is not listed in the April 1940 ORER. There is a covered hopper number series starting with 70003 (odd numbers only). Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

I was under the impression that the GATC “Dryflow” was a 3 bay covered hopper, and based on GATC’s two bay early Airslides, as shown in this model photo:

Jared I have a friend looking for a roommate. Will contact you. Doug Harding from my phone

In November 1936 the M&StL leased one GATC "Dri-Flow" tank car which was marked M&StL 70001. It came onto the M&StL as GATX 34000 and was remarked by M&StL. We have found this car listed in 1937,

I will be attending the Chicagoland/Naperville RPM meet beginningWednesday, October 19th and checking out on Sunday, October 23rd and need someone to share room expenses with. Jared Harper Athens, GA

Tony, My insights came from an Alcoa Automotive Sales Engineer in Detroit who worked as a junior engineer at the midwestern plant that made the sheet. The post-WW2 C&O Office of Research & Design in

Al Kresse wrote: Not true, Al. Both Reynolds and Alcoa had excess CAPACITY at war's end and were looking for new markets for aluminum. The aluminum being produced (at any time) only turns into

Tony, Mentioning Alcoa. After the Second World War they had an excess of aircraft alloy aluminum. That is what they were pushing in 1947. Today's aluminum car bodies are made of marine alloys with

Very true, but of course not an insoluble problem, as evidenced by the VERY many aluminum coal hoppers in service today. I'm sure car builders and owners learned from problems with the early aluminum

The IC rebuilt 5 50 ton cars from the 66000-66698 series cars that were rebuilt by the IC at Centralia in 1941 into aluminum bodied cars in 1947. They were numbered 66700-66704. Besides the

Car 13 (just ahead of the Milwaukee Ribside) is a Soo Line "tall" automobile car. The Ken Soroos book lists 75 of the original 100 car series (AC&F 1915) being rebuilt in 1934-1935, with appearance

The Clark Propst style damage-control modeling commenced this evening. A fresh bottle of Testor's liquid cement, a soft wide brush that still fit the bottle, and a sheet of Evergreen's finest... I

I have written a second post on asphalt tank cars, including additional model views. If you're interested, it can be found at this

I found the "Original" Palmolive at Target today and will experiment with it. I don't want to make a big deal of this as my desire is to darken some very small parts. Given the "crap" styrene the

I made jewelry for a living, once. Paraphrasing Clint Eastwood, it wasn't much of a living. Anyway. I had a blackening solution that worked reliably on silver and gold alloys. I never tried it on

Without getting too far into our proprietary process, when blackening brass in a permanent and correct way, heat is required. It's a chemical process. I agree that the gun blackening (not blueing

Jim, The Sunshine sales flyers have some detail.Here’s the one for the kit you have. It has some notes on other heightMather cars. http://www.sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun06.pdf Eric

More importantly, chemicals needing insulation were shipped in reefers, until the large-scale arrival of insulated boxcars in the late 1950s. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,