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Big surprise here, folks: proto2000 only made one height of Mather car. Tony Thompson

By Tony Thompson · #163950 ·

this nice shot of the GM&O freight house NKP Boxcar against the freight house

The NKP boxcar is the short car against the freight house, fourth from the top. These pictures are fun to see as they enlarge so easily. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock Hi List

By gary laakso · #163949 ·

Re: this nice shot of the GM&O freight house

This structure has track on both sides - so I think it is a "transfer house". The picture was taken in 1960 - thus the doors of the house are further apart to accomodate longer cars (50) combined

By Jim Betz · #163948 ·

Re: Manufacturers Railway Mather box

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 06:00 AM, mopacfirst wrote: But I thought those were channels (C-sections) on the diagonals, not Z-sections like a "normal" single-sheathed box had.Mather was remarkably

By Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> · #163947 ·

Re: this nice shot of the GM&O freight house

Claus Schlund wrote: "I noticed a second example of this at the link below... The L&N and Southern Freight Houses - Cornell University Library Digital Collections The L&N and Southern Freight

By Benjamin Hom · #163946 ·

Re: this nice shot of the GM&O freight house

Hi List members, Thanks everyone who replied, I think I have a better understanding now. I noticed a second example of this at the link below...

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #163945 ·

Re: this nice shot of the GM&O freight house

For those that have been to Kansas City, 12th Street from Downtown into the West Bottoms (where the GM&O freight house was) was and is a double deck viaduct. The photo is looking

By William Hirt · #163944 ·

Re: grab iron ladders

In my opinion the .005 brass works OK. Nice thing is that the rungs and stiles all line up and are square. Once the ladder is assembled and mounted it becomes fairly strong and rigid. I use a modified

By gtws00 · #163943 ·

Throwback Tuesday: Model Die Casting 40 ft AAR Boxcar, Model Railroader, October 1959

Model Die Casting 40 ft AAR Boxcar ad, Model Railroader, October 1959. Note the "Metal's Better" tagline. Ben Hom

By Benjamin Hom · #163942 ·

Re: Manufacturers Railway Mather box

Mather produced boxcars with a few different interior heights. There were also some 36-foot Mather boxcars rolling around before 1930. Just because it is labeled as a Mather boxcar, stock car, or

By Eric Hansmann · #163941 ·

Re: Manufacturers Railway Mather box

I can see an issue on the height, because from looking at the pictures of car bodies from the Proto kits on eBay, they all look the same even though there were some that were quite a bit taller. I

By mopacfirst · #163940 ·

Re: this nice shot of the GM&O freight house

Interesting shot indeed. In the lower right corner of the photo there is a Monon High Speed Merchandise Service boxcar. I had no idea they got so far off line. Bill Darnaby

By william darnaby · #163939 ·

Re: NJI&I Boxcar

Thank you! Thanks Pete

By Peter Hall · #163938 ·

Re: CNW gondola underside / L&N coke boxcar

I caught this one, L&N 30658, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. I believe the City coal gas plant was still active in the early 1960s. Bob Witt P.S. It look like my photo is fading away ...

By rwitt_2000 · #163937 ·

Re: Manufacturers Railway Mather box

The Proto models do not have the Z-braces for the diagonals and I am not sure that they accurately model the correct height. Buyer beware. Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM

By Chuck Cover · #163935 ·

Re: this nice shot of the GM&O freight house

An interesting detail: the cars are aligned side to side, but spaced apart, requiring each one to be decoupled. There would have been good access for carts and trucks on the opposite side. It

By David Soderblom · #163934 ·

Re: this nice shot of the GM&O freight house

They are very common on the prototype, because they're cheaper to build. But they don't work for models unless we model in P:48, or P:87, P: whatever On 4/29/2019 8:46 PM, David

By Tim O'Connor · #163933 ·

Re: this nice shot of the GM&O freight house

One thing I did notice, is that on the far side of the freight house, the switches have self guarding frogs; no guard rails on them; at least on those closest to the station. The one on the near side

By David Wiggs · #163932 ·

Re: this nice shot of the GM&O freight house

Claus, Responses from others in the group have accounted for access, but it also might be that this was an LCL transfer facility; goods being moved between rail cars only with no need for access from

By Mike Aufderheide · #163931 ·

Re: CNW gondola underside / L&N coke boxcar

My Dad just caught the corner of this one in Pueblo, Colorado :-) On 4/29/2019 8:11 PM, Steven D Johnson wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

By Tim O'Connor · #163930 ·

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