What the... ?? I just received this from ARCHER and I thought to ask here- did ARCHER relocate to the UnitedStates? If so, that's good news, but it's news to me in any case! Tim

Just my opinion but although Accurail Andrew are nicely detailed I think they are too long and on a model they are too big, especially if you have a car next to it with the Tahoe truck. On a stock car

Hello Doug, many thanks for your note. Westerfield has them listed, when I am at home I will try to order them. Yes, Accurail trucks usually are nicely detailed and run very well, but unfortunately

If you can’t find the Tahoe trucks Nelson mentioned, look at the Accurail Andrews trucks. They are a very nice looking, inexpensive and when equipped with wheelsets from Intermoutain or Reboxx they

Hello Nelson, MANY THANKS for your comprehensive reply! So I will use Andrews trucks on both cars, definitely. I am modeling the early POST-war years (I am sorry for the mistakenly written pre-war

It depends upon what date(s) you intend to represent. SM-18 and SM-18A stock cars were built between 1926 and 1928, and they originally received arch bar trucks, but they received Andrews trucks

Looks like a case of good ol' field expediency. The track arrangement looks tight, and the route coming off the diverging route of a trailing turnout immediately into the diverging route of a facing

Many of the boxcars in that string could be modeled using Accurail kits. Beyond the Southern SU car is a Canadian Pacific Fowler. While we can't determine if it has a 5- or 6-foot door, the new

Well... the car coupled to the other end is the new Accurail 36' car. While the fishbelly center sill shows underneath, the real spotting feature is the bolster ends. Dennis Storzek

Hello friends, I have two CB&Q SM-18 stock cars needing new trucks for acceptable rolling ability. The current trucks are Andrews which I guess are entirely accurate for the cars. But would it also be

The extra rail is a type of point guard. Must have had a problem with wheels picking those points. Not typical practice in the lifetime of almost all of us on this list. Point guards are usually

http://www.railfan.net/lists/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-08-02-18/X4896.jpg ...just a foreshortened view of the switch points thrown for the classification yard? -------------------- Richard Brennan

As long as we are looking at this particular image ... What's going on with the track on the right (where the dwarfs are) ??? Sure -looks- strange to me.

ADMIN: Tim O’Connor notes: “Bill was only saying we can criticize the PRODUCT without turning it into personal comments about people. I'm pretty sure that's longstanding Mike

Claus and all, I believe the object is real, but I have never seen such an attachment. The class O-18 originally were drop-bottom gondolas or gondolas with drop bottom doors. The doors were removed

Very fine response Tom! Jerry Michels

"Muchos gracias" Dennis and Eric. Corns, "Wheeling & Lake Erie" vol 1, p 58, has a photo of W&LE 27439 which appears to confirm Eric's proposal. AL B.

Oh! Well, yeah, CN came right down into Vermont and most of the USnewsprint consumption was Canadian paper - even into the late 1990's there was adedicated Conrail newsprint paper train from Canada

Tony, I totally agree with you. But in my case, I do have to add that while I can see taking certain liberties with the prototype on a model railroad, I personally do not having to 'explain' things

The B&O gondola in this 1926 DL&W photograph is an O-18 class car. This car class held 39% of the B&O gondola fleet of 1926. More details can be found on this 1926 equipment