Hello Everyone, As you are aware Cyc 34 is the last one to be issued. There is a sale of remaining RP Cyc's to reduce remaining stock. I can offer the following volumes in the sale including

I mention this to Keith Jordan, one of the authors of the Santa Fe reefer book. Hecommented, "If cars were in dedicated service, there would be bulletins,etc., that would indicate which cars were in a

Thanks for the info I was thinking of the 3 foot high cars. I'm in S and there are 40 and 41' foot cars but no 46 foot. The 41 foot cars are excellent Southern prototype though. I bought a 40' 3

It appears that the Terminating Truck is a swing-motion truck - You can see the parallel transoms and bolster between them at 2:01 in the clip. It should have significantly more mass than the standard

The GJc were scrapped in the late 1930s (class GJ was built 1909-13). The later 98000-98631 were class GUb (also #s 91000-92599); class GU gons rebuilt with corrugated ends. David Thompson

The weird part is what happened to the 98000-98799 GJc series betweenthe 1934=1935 rebuilding and the 1940 ORER (where they DON'TEXIST) and then the reappearance of the series in the 1950 ORER? Were

Friends, I am looking at the N&W Historical Society drawings list, and have found a wealth of information about class GJc, including photos, drawings and lettering, at

Hi List Members, I'm cleaning out some stuff I no longer need. I have the following article... Essential Freight Cars 20 - QA&P boxcar, carbon black covered hopper and a vinegar tank car by Ted

Dennis Storzek wrote: Wasn't that the question? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538;

Although the Terminated Truck may have been manufactured during our time frame. Note the journal covers on the truck, normally on plain bearing devices for supporting STMFCs on rails. John Barry

---In STMFC@..., <b.hom@...> wrote : Heavy enough to squash a Terminator, though this takes place well after the era of this list. ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPKG3WMkMxQ Ben

James Matthews wrote: "Are you sure about those weights? Not quite apples to apples but a built up three piece 70-ton roller bearing truck with truck mounted cylinders and 34" wheels weighs

Tony, Are you sure about those weights? Not quite apples to apples but a built up three piece 70-ton roller bearing truck with truck mounted cylinders and 34" wheels weighs 8,500-9,000 pounds (I have

I had mentioned the following before, perhaps not on this list. Seafood shipping is where refrigerators went to die, not unlike hide cars in the same manner. I have a copy of a letter (somewhere

Hi Everyone, Attendees to the Chicago RPM can participate in an operating session on Sunday morning, on a O scale 2 rail layout, no experience is necessary. As at past meets, an operating session

So is part of Oregon, such as the deep water port of Coos Bay, the railroad line to which was part of the Southern Pacific system in the Steam Era. I imagine most of the freight cars on it then were

Actually, it went by boat in the 1950s and earlier, but I was too young to imbibe when I lived in Alaska. Nelson Moyer

Dave Nelson] wrote: Dave, you might enjoy my article in _Model Railroad Hobbyist_ in the issue for September 2016 (download or read on line, for free, any time, at their website, www.mrhmag.com ).

Thank you all for the thoughts on the weight of a cast wheel. What is the weight of a truck side frame? A truck bolster? I ask because I’d like to estimate where the center of gravity

Alaska and parts of Washington are further west than the furthest westextent of California. What any of this has to do with freight cars, only theSheriff can say. I think beer may have travelled in