Steve, Not mid-western roads, but the Denver & Rio Grande Western, Western Pacific and Sacramento Northern were handling coil for U.S. Steel from Geneva, Utah, to Pittsburg,

Oh, and to add to the earlier message, there are a lot of misconceptions about steel coil loading. Steel could be highly protected (as far as early technology was concerned, or all the way to

The C&O's designs were either based on Evans Products' in Plymouth, Michigan, or their Wyoming Shops outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The baseline for their evaluations were the spring-loaded PRR

The blue flag decals mentioned in Tony's blog were from: DM Custom Decals Donald Manlick 2127 South 11th Street Manitowoc, WI 54220 920-684-8688 I tried calling several times but after the

Kadee is doing a Warren car soon, albeit with silver lettering: https://kadee.com/month/future/9010l.jpg https://kadee.com/month/future/9010l.jpg

Steven; Coil up to around 1955 was shipped in either box cars, in the case of cold-rolled finished sheet, or commonly uncovered in gons with 3 or so over each truck, in the case of unfinished

Michael, Andy Sperandeo did a little blog on modifying the unusual BLI trick mounting arrangement in order to substitute trucks from Tahoe Model Works, etc. These cars are notorious for the running

AHM made a model tank car whose tank is a good starting point for modeling these cars. They show up regularly on eBay. I just checked and two are there now. One is lettered for Gulf and the other for

It appears that Fenton, is in fact, a freight car expert and that he was trying to disguise his skills, to no avail. Should his nick name be “Warren”? Gary Laakso south of Mike Brock

---In STMFC@..., <timboconnor@...> wrote : I have done a bit of work on a BLI NYC steel box car with 7/8 ends andseem to recall past remarks in this group on the "troubles"with these cars. I know

Thanks Bruce I love the tank cars but am not a student of same. -- Fenton Wells 5 Newberry Lane Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-1144 srrfan1401@...

Good morning group, our group was discussing shipping steel by rail Sunday. We've all see coiled steel in gondolas in the present day and as far back as the 60's. But none of us can remember seeing

Here's another take on modeling blue flags and using them in operating sessions. This was posted last June on the DesignBuildOp blog. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2016/06/24/blue-flags/ Eric

Michael, Richard Hendrickson worked with BLI on these cars, and for a post-WWII NYC car, I believe that they are very accurate. I think most of our past discussion focused on the roofs and metal

Phil, It is important to understand that for the period of this list, the railroads did not “control” the loading and routing of their general service boxcars. This was controlled by the car

Fenton; Bruce is indeed correct. That is a c.'55-'60 ACF welded jacket and frame tank car. You can tell by the rounded stub end sill typical for ACF products of that time. It also has the rounded

Pete Hall upgraded a pair of HO scale plastic box car kits to reflect Western Pacific prototyeps. He shares his techniques in the latest post on the Resin Car Works blog.

Fenton, I think that the second car is in fact insulated. If you look closely, you can see the tank bands appear to disappear just about the turnbuckles. That car is much

Gentlemen, I'm no freight car expert but the two Warren cars appear to be different. One appears to be insulated (Obviously a Sunshine kit;>) With the black or dark lower band while the other

Roof painted Aluminum on the CogG 50-ft PS-1 meaning a 1954 built car as 1956 group had black roofs. Bill Welch