It is almost Noon in the Eastern Time Zone on Sunday. Why is there no news/gossip/reports/highlights from the RPM attendees this past Friday and Saturday?! Come on people. . . Bill Welch

Hello- I have an HO Brand New 3-pack set of Kato Nickel Plate American Car & Foundry 1958 cu. ft. covered hopper kits. These are 70-ton cars which included 50-ton trucks. I have corrected that by

1945 book loaded with drawings and pictures.draft-gear attachments , draf gears and box cars 80 pages.$15 includes shipping reply to smuel10363@...

Section foreman four miles out of town called the agent on the message phone and told him about the hotbox. Rear end was doing intense meditation and didn't see section mans stop signal Dick Haave

The number, 54275, fits an Sk-G, a 36' truss rod car built by ACF in 1902. ATSF had 1500 of them. Originally they had wooden sills but were rebuilt before 1910 with steel channel draft sills.

Hope someone can help out. I have Kalmbach's Trains DVD with the issues from the beginning to 2010. Problem is, I can only get it to install on my C:\ drive. That was ok until I got a new laptop

In the same collection there is another photo of a similar AT&SF stock car with road number 54275(?). http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15330coll22/id/43103/rec/21 Bob Witt

The Denver Public Library has an Otto Perry photo from June 1918 showing AT&SF stock car 56540 on the trestle at the entrance to the C&S coal dock in Denver. Apparently it was delivering coal. I would

Pete, Let me add that for most of their lives the single-sheathed boxcars PROBABLY had white lettering, not silver. Part of the confusion is that the WP specified "aluminum"

Hey Tim, can you give me a shout offline when you get a chance? Golden1014@.... Thanks man. John Golden Albersbach, Germany

Pete, TruColor TCP-204 Western Pacific freight car red is a near match for the factory Roundhouse car color which is indeed a neat rendition if you browse through the Jim Eager WP book and study the

You cannot replace the dust guard on the back of a solid bearing journal box without removing the axle from the box. Early dust guards were made out of wood with the later ones being plastic with a

How would an agent know if there was a hot box 50-75 cars or more from the head end? It is up to the rear end crew to watch for agent.......With 42 years as a conductor there were alot of

Oh boy, now we can get into varieties of "hotboxes". While the word "hotbox" has entered the general language and is somewhat understood by most lay people as a burning bearing, the glowing wheel in

We do have a figure of a station agent modified such that he is holding his nose with one hand and pointing to the track with the other. I've got a picture of him "in action" on the Atlantic Great

Yes, I agree Dennis, the temperature of the oil has a big effect on the amount of drag a bearing has. I have watched V8 engines on a dyno pick up 20-30 hp from the oil temperature going from 150 degs

Todd, The roller bearings you are referring to are very different from the modern tapered roller bearings in freight cars. Each RR roller bearing is often carrying a load of over 30,000 pounds! These

---In STMFC@..., <toddchorton@...> wrote : I'm not 100% convinced that a car with roller bearings takes less effort to start moving it but I can see a good argument for it. At speed? Well,

That is way cool Gary, ask a question on ResinFreightCars and get an answer here! Vol 4 is the one volume I didn't have. I was thinking it was the auto end doors with the "Open" stencil, and it is the

I am seeking clarification on the brake rigging for the Union Pacific B-50-20 boxcar. This is being done from a Westerfield kit. The underframe has a single center beam (Bettendorf I believe). A