I will chime in on what my thought process was when creating the part. First I created it to work on the Kato 70 ton Roller bearing truck for converting the troop sleepers the Rock Island had. This

I had the same thought Andy - although I was thinking of using my Eastern Car Works Dalman sideframes. They are styrene, for one thing. Not Delrin. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling,

Hi Dave, No bulbs; these are drop end mill gons. There are just a couple of flat plates formed as needed to block the door from moving forward, and sandwiching the ends of the wood boards. As for the

After seeing Eric Thur’s circuit breaker load at Cocoa Beach, I knew I wanted to do it “someday”. However, I was in vacation mode and even though I spent a lot of time with Eric I didn’t ask

Hi- I have thought that the TMW Dalman 2-level would be a good start, as the side frame has a wide spring area, which the Chrysler trucks also feature. I have not gone that far yet in testing this

I met George once at a train show in White Plains. Bought a number of his wonderful passenger car trucks. Al Westerfield

Ed There is no "correct" truck for the Chrysler sideframe. Just use one that looks close. -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

Somewhere, I don't recall on which thread, someone expressed surprise that there was a single door version. Big surprise to me too, but I could use a T&P version. Lo and behold, eBay came through.

Ken, You are correct that most material on these cars seems to concentrate on the automobile versions. The cars built for lumber/general service get little mention. This

Andy and Friends, I had several of these kits when I was a teenager, and seem to remember that most of the cast metal parts were very similar to parts from other manufacturers

I just acquired one of the MDC kits #2118 lettered for the Illinois Central. It has the conventional ends with one end having a lumber door and wood double doors. This would have been fine on my early

I've received my parts for the Chrysler truck conversion. The part includes the shock absorber and two of the truck springs. It's obvious that the part slides into a newly created void in the truck.

Jack Parker worked at Revell where he prepared tooling for all types of products including the ubiquitous Revell Engine House, which was designed by his co-worker Alan Armitage. In a 1995 interview

I have only three photos on hand of the 1920’s era NKP 70000-70499, one of those gondolas that look like a flat car with an open top wood box set on it, held in place w/ side stakes. My first

I think we're very definitely in Santa Fe territory here: in addition to the plated end car already identified, in other photos I see what looks like one intact Caswell gondola, another in the

John. Looks like you've got it! The other cars that are interesting are those having ends made from Murphy gondola ends mounted vertically. Tom Casey

Tom, I agree that this was likely not a reefer, but its also likely not a(n) (un)rebuilt furniture car. It has a faded A.T.S.F. MoW number that I read as 196825, it also has a partial faded number

Friends, P&G also has a large plant near Sacramento which used to produce "synthetic granules", meaning powdered laundry detergent such as Tide. I had the chance to tour the

Ummmm.... Palmolive is made by Colgate-Palmolive. That’s akin to talking about the IPhone from Samsung. Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media speedwitchmedia@... - www.speedwitchmedia.com Blog:

Bill, The two SFRD Rr-19's with flat plate steel ends were made with two steel sheets and joined with a single horizontal seam. Also, those had AJAX hand brakes and the end reporting marks would be