mike turner wrote: All the ore cars on the Minnesota Iron Range once had these platforms, too. Workmen could poke the sticky ore and get it to fall through the bottom doors. Tony

To add to the list of terms, Southern Railway ordered hoppers with U.S. Gypsum 'poking platforms.' -- Mike Turner MP-Z35

Richard, This article I authored was a way to use up the couple Revell/CON COR in my Jewells in the Junk Box. Mainline Modeler - 11/1997 pp.26-29 Greg Martin makes improvements to the model to

Don, I'll be in DC next week and will check it out. Somewhere downstairs in my stash is an old Dynamodels HO scale sow with piglets. With an ear-ectomy I will have the proper material to work with.

Mainline Modeler - 11/1997 pp.26-29 Greg Martin makes improvements to the model to represent the AAR 50 ton flatcar C&O #80694; with HO scale drawings

Not later than 1959... perhaps earlier On 8/31/2019 7:19 PM, Allen Cain wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Hi Bruce--I think you will find everything you want to know on these

Per Ed Hawkins handout on the Kadee site. You are good. You could do 10 cars total :) https://www.kadee.com/STL2016RPM/11K-Gal._ICC-105A_ACF_Type%2027.pdf Brian J. Carlson

Friends, To close the loop on this thread, I ended up just buying a second Kadee ACF 11k insulated tank car with the same number as the first for the same bargain price of $30. I assumed there was a

Thanks Dennis! Good to know! Rob

Actually Richard if you take a trip to the Smithsonian you can see a silk purse that Dupont IIRC made from a sow's ear. I do not know if it was transported there in a STMFC freight car. Cordially,

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 11:10 AM, Robert kirkham wrote: Was looking at the Accurail site, and considering ordering their 36’ floors and brake sprues to retrofit some non-Accurail Fowler cars I

Based on article I found in the hobby press—don't remember which magazine or date of—I used the Concor flat to create a very nice and I believe accurate, based on the article, a CB&Q flat car. The

Thanks Tim, any idea when this marking first appeared on SAL boxcars? Allen Cain

I know they are sow's ears, but I like making silk purses and am hoping for a prototype. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

While at the angle of the picture, the doors seem to be spliced, they could be door and a half. Does anyone recognize these cars? The side ladders are short with 7 steps and likely two grab irons.

Richard, Consider WP 50' flat cars 2351-2400 (PC&F, 1937) and identical 2401-2700 (AC&F, 1942). The slope started just outboard of the 3rd stake pocket, actually just about

Thanks Eric

Both the Revell/Concor (53'6") and Model Power (50') flat cars have sides where the slope down to the fishbelly begins at about the third stake pocket from the end and reaches full depth between the

The straight underframe part is the same as the Fowler kit underframes. There are a few extra parts. Overall the main underframe casting is the same for the three different 36-foot Accurail boxcar