A further correction. I am continuing this topic under "Flat Car HORIZONTAL brake wheel staff supports". In a fit of senior dementia I miss labeled the topic as about vertical brake wheel. I should

Sorry to belabor this topic. As part of my flatcar handbrake maintenance project I was able to cut the mounting projection back on a Kadee 2021 Equipco handbrake wheel and drill it with a #76 drill

I must apologize to all. A very big oops on my part. Gene Green has sent me several drawings of hand brake appliances/specialties and in correct AAR terminology this should be correctly called a

Correction the Tichy part in the picture is the #3005 K brake sprue. I used this rather than the Tichy #3003 as that part is a single casting rather than a separate top guide and then the lower part

I am especially impressed with whomever painted that tree line on the backdrop of the cordwood photo. Craig Wilson

Bruce, Thanks for the reply. Whatever the chalk marks are for, one thing is for sure, they are an interesting detail. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Yuck, Yuck, Yuck ("Goofy" lmao) ... Thanks for that one! - Jim

Aha. Duryea underframe and all. I thought these might be the cars covered in RPCyc vol.14, but they're not. Those in the article were the previous generation, with steel underframes, with or without

Dennis, that's exactly how we move train orders at the club because we can't reach over the layout. :-D Tim On 2/16/2019 4:35 AM, Dennis Storzek wrote: -- Tim

Right. How about this one? Tim On 2/15/2019 11:44 PM, Bruce Smith wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I built one of those Walthers URTX reefers. It was a good car, for its day, and the Duryea underframe was somewhat well represented, at least the crossbearers, but there was no draft gear extension.

As good fortune would have it I have two photos with reweigh dates of 1935, one with the original board roof and the other with the new Hutchins roof. By 1935 the cars built new by FGE in 1922 would

Scott, A similar car is/was sold by Walthers in plastic. In its original . . . uh . . . incarnation, the car had a separate roof and ladders. Good fodder for upgrading. Some of

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 06:29 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote: Reflects a surprising amount of common knowledge of railway ops in the steam era... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzwxL6305Q4 :-)As others have

Bill, Chalkmarks, as often noted here, are usually indecipherable as to meaning. They belonged to local crews. Regards, Bruce Smith

But definitely not the car in question 😉 Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Tim, I got a smile out of the name of the streamliner... Bill Daniels San Francisco, CA On Friday, February 15, 2019, 6:29:57 PM PST,

Thanks Pierre. I’m in contact with John often. He will be at St Louis in July doing another kit bash clinic. John Golden Ramstein AB, Ger

Ted found this photo about a year ago and we added it to the book. There are two Class V cars in this picture, the one on the left is a 10,000 gallon car, which makes this a pretty rare view as most

And the left car is 8,000 or more gallons: note the dual relief valves and the 5 courses. Earl Tuson