Earl, Contact Ted Anderson at the Pullman Library at the IRM. He has drawings for the M-15s built by the Standard Steel Car Company. I have not done a detailed comparison, but I suspect that the

For your Monday viewing, hump operations on NYC in the 1950s (a 36 foot boxcar appears): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dhQq3oxpgQ Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Hello, Can anyone direct me to a source of a drawing of a B&O M-15 underframe? If not a complete drawing, can anyone share some of the important dimensions and further information regarding the

Bill Welch shares detail techniques on the Resin Car Works blog as he upgrades an HO scale Erie box car. Check out Bill's Xxtreme Modeling

Everyone, initially I am going to experiment w/0.010 wire and go to 0.008 if necessary. For the brake lever attachment I like to use a very short section of wire attached thru the lever that works

Bill: When I need fine, soft wire to make a loop (or other things), I use UTC Ultra Wire. It's a fly fishing (tying) product, and pretty cheap. Sizes: XS = 0.0045", S = 0.0065", BR (=brassie) =

I think you folks would also like a single strand of the stranded copper wire you find in an ordinary electrical extension cord. That copper wire is about the same size and a single about to be

Hello Bill, the smallest wire (for hobby purposes) I know of is the Detail Associates #2501. It is just .006" brass. I am using this for bell and whistle ropes and several other appliances. It is

Fenton, Could you please provide me with Dr. Campbell's address? I'd like to try my hand again at kitbashing since my stroke. Thanks much. Larry Sexton ---- "O Fenton Wells srrfan1401@...

Eric, great blog about the Accurail 36 ft boxcars. They are a wonderfully needed product for the hobby. Attached are photos of the bash we did for the Winston Salem NC RPM in October. We are deeply

I found this link on another yahoo group to a photo album posted by John Gillies of the 2917 Chicagoland

Accurail: 6 foot door Fowler boxcars. FINALLY in mass-produced plastic. I'll have a piece on them on Eric's blog in a week or two, once I finish up the latest Modeler's Notebook. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

I know sometimes new steam era models or paint schemes are announced at Trainfest Anything this year? Brian J. Carlson

Mask Island Decals Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the Rock Island Pulp Wood car kit, (wood Rack). The kit contains body, deck, trucks, no wheels, grab irons and under frame parts, and

It can go the other way, too. In 1937 when the Soo Line gave up owning their reefers and began leasing from URTX, they rebuilt the newest reefers, Haskell & Barker, 1921, into flatcars, adding channel

Do we know what period/era 40 feet was considered a standard car length for measuring or describing side and yard tracks? That kind of implies 36-38-foot-long cars or a mix of longer box and gondola

Neither gons nor boxcars, but similar idea: the CPR converted 260 flat cars to auto-boxcars of the 296000-296102 and 296103 -- 296259 series; - re-building in July 1916 - February 1918, with IH: 9'

Hi Eric and List Members, Thank you Eric for the very interesting link. Whata wonderful model scene that MEC unloading operation would make! I notice the page has a line that reads "Bancroft&

Eric Hansmann asks, Well, not a gon-to-box conversion but similar: in 1929, the B&M rebuilt 100 steel gondolas into their 29000 series pulp racks with two side doors. I have a bit of a writeup on

SAL rebuild 100 former composite gone into auto cars, the A class (first 50) and the A-1 class, (second 50) in 1936 and 1937. I have an ICC report the composite tons that says by 1940 that they