I found this statement in Volume 72 of the Proceedings OfThe American Railway Engineering Association: "There is no appreciable difference between solid bearingsand roller bearings above 35

I could swear (nicely) that I have seen plans for CGW 355 published in one magazine or another. This tingle a brain memory cell in anyone? Brian Chapman Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Pete, The color of the original Roundhouse models was a good match for the rich red-oxide paint the WP favored up until the early 1950s. If your cars came painted and lettered

Fred Jansz noted a Tru-Color WP red in his upgrade on the Resin Car Works blog. http://blog.resincarworks.com/western-pacific-50-foot-automobile-box-car/ Eric Hansmann El Paso, TX

Ted Culotta’s Focus on Freight Cars Volume Four at pages 32 and 33 shows 9380 a single door boxcar with the lettering “lift to open” on the left side of the middle of the door handle with an

The GN 10500-10899 single door series and the 38700-38799 series dbl door, both 40' plywood construction in 1947, recieved Scotchlight lettering and herald components and diamond shape delineators

Scotchlight was introduced on the GN aluminum box car 2500 in 1944 as described in Railway Age 12/9/44 in the road name, reporting marks and the goat (silver) and background to the goat (red). The

I'm not sure I can follow all the directions for casting a translucent red wheel. Anybody here casting some that might sell me one? Contact offline please... Chuck Peck email LNNRR152@...

I enjoyed the original article in the New York Central Modeler, as well as Jack Burgess’ article in Model Railroad Hobbiest. I witnessed several hot boxes on the former AT&SF and when working on

Westerfield made this car and still lists decals. D8101 DECAL, O-27/O-27A MILL GONDOLA, B&O $5.50 Note also that the drop-end was modified by the B&O on the O-27a series. Not easy to

Jim, You would tell me AFTER I started to weathered the car ;) Before weathering, I would have just changed the number to an 0-27A. Of course NOW I look in the 1943 ORER and I note that the car I

I’m in the process of removing all the cast-on detail from two HO scale Roundhouse 50’ single-sheathed automobile cars that will become Western Pacific 40001-40100 (originally 13001-13100) series

The B&O O-27c was a rare car, unsuccessful, and seldom seen. A few B&O O-27a gondolas were refitted for merchandise LCL containers for Pittsburgh - New York overnight service. Equipped in 1929,

Caboose Nos. 350-365 we ex-DM&N purchased from the D&IR by the CGW around 1930. Not a ton of pictures exist of all the cars to know how many were modified but besides 355, caboose 354 also lost it's

Rail Graphics is closing down on Dec. 31 this year. http://www.railgraphicsdecals.com/home.html I need to get some decals ordered. Gary Laakso south of Mike Brock

Bob, According to my photo collection, the first GN boxcars with 3M Company Scotchlight delineators (the dots or rectangles along the sill) was the 10900-11375 series built by the GN at its St. Cloud

An earlier photo of caboose #355, also taken in Council Bluffs in the 50s shows it had an offset cupola and was minus the horizontal steel straps. They must have been added to reinforce the body,

An interesting prototype ... I was this a one-of-a-kind? http://tinyurl.com/mvp46cb Bob Witt

For more background information, I wrote an article for the Oct 2016 issue on hot boxes in the free online Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine (http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/ ) Jack

I understand thatthis material, known by a variety of names such as Scotchlite, reflective tape,reflective delineators, etc., has been in general use on freight cars andlocomotives since the