Randy Hamill wrote: "Although I generally agree with the Gilbert-Nelson approach, along with Bruce Smith’s percentages, they are very dependent upon the road you model. Bruce models the PRR, so 75%

I would hesitate to overdo it. I guess I would attempt building one up using styrene, cut into individual boards. My own attempts at that would inherently have a bit of wiggle and warpage. Add a bit

Hi Jim – Tichy makes running board supports. Part 3081. Rob Kirkham

... suggestions for my word "process" in the prior? I'm speculating that maybe wetting the wood and then sandwiching it between two pieces of glass to eliminate vertical warping ... Ideas for

Hi, So a -major- part of my question is/was "is there a way to get the running boards of our models to look like these?". I'm thinking that maybe you start by eliminating the plastic version, use

Rufus, You may be right - but in one version of the photo that I viewed I felt that I was seeing both N and P and that they were properly spaced. - Jim Not saying I'm right and you are wrong.

Ed, That car you are saying is NP has a metal roof - if I'm seeing it right. - Jim

Garth, I was thinking more of modifications to the track than to the cars ... Jim

Jason I think at least SOME of Tim Gilbert's data was not from train lists, but from "cars on hand" data - some railroads published this kind of data e.g. Great

Exquisite, isn’t it? All those directions in the boards and even different textures. That’s why we model those freight cars, so that even a fairly casual viewer can see distinctive differences.

Jason Kliewer wrote: One factor to consider in evaluating any road is what their proportion was, of originating vs. terminating traffic. One example is the BAR, which originated far more traffic

The G-N or N-G data really only works up to the mid 1950s. This is well stated in the analyses done by Tim and Dave. Once you get later things changed, piggyback, specialized boxcars, specific

I've transcribed 10,000 car movements from 1960's train list for the Chicago Great Western and the home road cars only made up 10% of the total. Along with that, in the top 10 were Canadian Pacific

The car two cars back is likely NP, account of the curved roof. The car between has an interesting roof. Hutchins dry lading, perhaps? The first and second plank (from the left) on the foreground

I would take note of age, car owner, car outline. The car with the narrower running boards is also a few inches narrower than the others...when you mix 36', 40' 50' etc. in the same train, when you

Two points The roof on the mentioned car does not have the expected NP features (roof not curved and cast fittings clamping the panel joints are absent at the edges).  From the LOC tif version of

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 12:15 PM, Garth Groff wrote: Jim, I have never heard of any sort of device to make cars rock, though some do due to inexpert assembly via loose truck screws.The big problem

Jim, I have never heard of any sort of device to make cars rock, though some do due to inexpert assembly via loose truck screws. There was a device that made cars coast

The original is available to download in several sizes through the Library of Congress website at this link. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017807305/ Nearly all of the Shorpy images are in the

Hi Folks If you encounter a Shorpy preview like this, all you have to do is copy and paste the link into your web browser, then delete the '.preview' part from the link before hitting enter; this will