Another vote for Mitutoyo, which seem to be the standard of industry these days. The batteries last for years even if you forget to turn them off. A word of caution; a couple years ago there was a

I’ve owned several sets of digital and dial calipers over the years. Mitutoyo seems to be my favorite but Swiss made Brown & Shape dial calipers are good also. The digital advantage is the ability

Apologies for the misspellings, should read: "Machinist Tools For Modeling, Part 1 - Hand Tools" Clinic at recent NERPMBill WelchBill Welch

Photo: PRR Gondola The car end is stenciled PL 751691 CT: https://buickman2.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/img_7283-1.jpg The date is 10/15/20. This was taken at the Buick factory that was under

Among the clinics I attended at the recent the NERPM, the most expensive was the one presented by Ryan Mendell, "Machinist Tools For Modellng, Part 1 - Hand Tools." In just two days I have spent about

Among the numerous drawings I supplied to get the car green lighted by Rapido before they ever approached our NP modeling committee, I had searched at the MNHS for a matter of months every Tuesday

No Charlie, not done at the museums. Three of the four trucks (the fourth is AAR cast sideframes) on the two cars at IRM are so marked and I've been a member as long as the cars have been there... the

Some may have gotten the impression from this discussion that the USRA DS box cars were the primary origin of Andrews trucks on the CB&Q. This is not correct. Here are the classes that had some if

I think the USRA car shares its underframe with the NP box car. This may have had something to do with Rapido's decision - a small investment with a rapid payback. Tim O'

Thanks. David Thompson's comment that the trucks on the USRA cars would not be marked CB&Q is a point well taken, so the second hand side frames must have come from one of these groups of gons. There

Nelson,. Please check my response to this in the Passenger Car group. It has a color photo taken in the mid-1960's showing the difference between a fresh coat of B&O Coach Olive and one that is over

I have a Sunshine C-16 express boxcar ready to paint, and the car color was described to me as coach green. That’s kind of like saying a freight car is boxcar red, so what paint colors in the

Dennis, These were the only CB&Q boxcars with Andrews trucks when purchased new. They did buy Andrews trucks new for their composite gondolas and used them to replace trucks on other

I would think these cannot be trucks from USRA cars, as the builders wouldn't have gone to the trouble of figuring out who was getting which groups of cars, then ordering sideframes with the proper

Well Dave, let's look at the bigger picture. The B&M may have had only 25 USRA double sheathed cars by 1950 but that is because the numbers came down rapidly shortly before that. In July 1946, for

Photo is of Long Island Rail Road 195 which was on line by 1915 according to the 1915 ORER, along with sister 196. The crane appears to be one of the numerous 70-tonners built by Industrial Works for

Dennis ORER figures for XM-24’s 1930 493 1935 492 1940 488 1945

According to the Santa Fe Live list, they had 2687 of these in 1922. In 1938 they still had 2442 but in 1942 only had 253. None were listed in 1945. This information varies from information in the

Photo: Long Island RR Wreck Crane & Boom Tender http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/browse/railroad-wrecking-crane Description: A Long Island Rail Road wrecking crane is seen here in an unknown

That's interesting. The Soo Line "sawtooth" boxcars built in 1913,14, and 15 were all built with Bettendorf T section trucks, but the five or six cars that remain in preservation all ride on Andrews