It’s been a busy couple of weeks catching up after traveling to the RPM-East prototype modeler meet. I’ve posted a short trip summary on my DesignBuildOp blog with links to the RPM-East photo

Hi List Members, Consider if you will for a moment this photo taken on the DL&W in Jersey City in 1928... http://www.railfan.net/lists/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-03-23-19/X6445.jpg On the left

The only kit (in HO) that I know of that made an attempt to do something like this is the Gould/Tichy USRA boxcar. Instead of scribing the wood boards Bill Gould placed the alternating boards at

Garth Groff wrote: My apologies for misreading your original post. Globe did make an 8000-gallon tank, but Athearn did not, thus my comment on what Athearn called their "shorty" tank. Your

Tony, Thanks for the tip, but I don't have an Athearn 10K tank. I have 8Ks and a 12.5K. The Mantua is a 10K though. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Thanks Dennis. I'll check the local Pot Shop. Bill Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Garth Groff wrote: Garth, if you measure an Athearn metal "shorty" tank car, you will find it is very close to 10,000 gallons. The measurement and calculation is simple, as I showed in a blog post

I looked at the photo you reference, and I agree the end of the car, while only partly visible, kind of looks like the top rib is rectangular. The Santa Fe Boxcar book by Dobyne doesn't show an end

OOOOPS! Guess I was thinking of grain doors. Thanks Lester. Bull Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

The paper is either lining paper folded around the door post and tacked as the recent flour load photos show or paper tacked over the door opening to make a dust tight seal. Either way the ends of the

I have some photos in a file of this group of the same lament. They have been there for a while. https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/files/Wood%20Sided%20Freight%20Car%20Debate It is also why I made

Friends, I have several of these Athearn/Globe cars I've scarfed up at train shows--an 8K twin dome, two 8K single domes, and a 12.5K with a single full-height dome (like the

Andy Carlson wrote: Exactly, and well said, Andy. There is, of course, an engineer's eyeball peering through that message. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

I still have one, but over the many moves 3 doors were lost. I completed one good side and plugged the openings with styrene. Since only one side will show on the layout, it’s (almost) as good as

In my memory, those cars cars were pretty nice for their time except their running board castings were quite brittle. Dave Lawler

Interesting. Using an inflation calculator of 10 this was pretty serious money back then, just about $23 today. I purchased a built up Crystal Car Line version off the used/bargain table of my local

I seem to recall an article by Martin Loftin in RMC covering modeling the paper door seals. Does anyone else recall the article or have any other modeling ideas? Many prototype photos seem to have

Boxcars used for bagged flour loading were most often "lined" with with heavy craft paper, this was for two principal reasons, 1. sanitary - it kept the flour bags cleaner, 2, to reduce damage to the

From: Dave Parker And imagine how much less perceptible the boards were when the car was new ca. 12 years earlier. I have some 1920s builder's photos where the individual boards are

At our retirees breakfast this morning I knew a guy I worked with started in the rail yard. I asked if they still used cloth bags when he hired on (1952)? He said they'd switched to paper, but there