Hello Steam Era Modelers: We are pleased to announce that Westerfield Models has a new Kit available: Our newest HO Kit release is the #12400 Series USRA DS Express Box for Northwestern Pacific.

This is partly atest message. We have been on vacation for a week and had an Inboxoverflow issue, so I am not sure what I missed or what has gottenout. Anyway, all ofthe tank car heater

Wow, that looks like an exact clone of my Iwata. Good price too. Tim O'Connor https://www.coastairbrush.com/products.asp?cat=595 new from paasche Thomas j Cataldo

Not new at all but a very good Airbrush. I have the setup w/the three needles/nozzles/tips etc. Bill Welch

Interesting. Thanks for the explanation. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

https://www.coastairbrush.com/products.asp?cat=595 new from paasche -- Thomas j Cataldo

I have seen ACF drawings of heater coils. One has connections through the tank head - two each inlets and outlets, i.e. an inlet and an outlet for the left set of coils and a pair for the right

I have photos of the inside of an ATSF storage tank at Emporia with the large heating lines inside that tank. Santa Fe tended to drain the oil out of the cars into wood lined troughs between the rails

Makes more sense now Dennis… Jack Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 7:39 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: RE: [STMFC] Tankcar Steam Connections ---In STMFC@...,

Chuck… That helps…I was thinking that you were describing a system where steam was simply injected into the tank car. Jack Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 7:25 PM To:

---In STMFC@..., <jack@...> wrote : Chuck… So, it is hard to understand why they would introduce steam/water into a tank car full of Bunker C rather than circulate through a series of pipes and then

Jack, the condensate trap is attached to the low point of the steam coils and drains to the ground. No water need be introduced to the oil being heated. Not speaking from theory or hearsay, I spent

Denny... I think that was the same sales pitch that I experienced a number of years earlier at another NMRA convention when I purchased my Iwata double action airbrush... Jack Burgess

Chuck… I asked a current day, experienced steam locomotive fireman a question about Bunker C in a similar situation on the Yosemite Valley Railroad. Based on his knowledge, I wrote an article

I will speak up also for the double actions. I had been happily using a bullet-proof Paasche syphon single action brush since the mid fifties. Then at the NMRA Sacramento convention some 7 or 8

The outlet does not need to be venting steam. Nor does there need to be a return line to the steam generator; A condensate trap at a low point will drain water and allow fresh hot steam into the

More engineering ignorance on my part here: doesn't the steam need to flow through the heating pipes? In other words, doesn't there need to be two connections for steam, one inlet and one outlet? It

Thanks to all who answered. The project was trying to figure out what exactly was happening in a forties era photo captioned "unloading road oil." There is a tankcar, an oil spreader truck with the

Claus, I'm guessing this is long, but for some reason I missed your post until now. If you still have the info, I'd love to have it. If not, oh well. Thanks, Dave Thursday, October 26, 2017, 6:17:03

Still would need a drain at the bottom of the car for the water to drain out. Rich Wilkens