Since I am intending to do my future modeling in another scale, I've gathered up my HO freight car details and trucks and put then on eBay in a fixed price

I can't immediately come up with the photo, but around 1970 I saw one of those 40' ice bunker reefers converted to mechanical by cutting out a section about five or six feet wide from the A end of the

So, would a satisfactory solution be this? A pair of metal Andrews sideframes, an engineering plastic bolster, and two split-axle wheelsets. Somehow it would need, I guess, a wiring connection at

Schuyler- If any turn up….I asked first and am going to use them to upgrade my Life-Like HO USRA 0-8-0 to switch freight cars as well, if truth be known! Mine came without tender pickup and

The LifeLike P2K USRA 0-6-0 and the later production of the USRA 0-8-0 used the standard LL 33" wheelsets, which had smooth (shiny) wheels and plastic axles, with thin shim brass or phosphor bronze

Not to hijack this thread, but does anyone know where I could buy some replacement Andrews trucks for the Life-Like USRA switch engines? I have twice now suffered a melted truck thanks to a short

Central Valley is the only thing that occurs to me, but they don't have the pointed axle pick-ups. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

From reading in the files of my railroad I will add to what Tony has correctly stated and add - at the time mechanical refrigeration units became viable -

Thanks, Ben--- For re-linking us to this resource. It is so handy as an Excel file and the whole story is pretty much there. This is so helpful; another good example of the wonderful help this group

The Santa Fe converted 5 ea 50' Rr-31 class ice bunker refrigerator cars to Mechanical Temperature Control cars in 1955. The standard 5' foot wide swing plug doors were replaced with sliding plug

All- Does anyone know of a source for HO trucks that have power pickup on both sides similar to the ones that were provided on later production Life-Like Proto2000 steam locomotives. I need a pair

Those are all in service cars my friends. Those are not the RIP tracks in South Boston Freight Terminal. Look over by the brick smokestack and sand tower to see two switchers – the S-1 is working

Agreed it’s a patch, but I think it’s a painted patch, painting out something, like a “return to” notice. It’s a bit too ragged to be a carpenter’s parch. Schuyler

It looks like fresh unpainted wood i.e. "patches" to me, Schuyler. I do not recognize the cars at all. They don't look like anything that I know of from the New Haven. I'm

Jim Betz wrote: Yes, several did (see the PFE book, for example). No one ended up happy with the result. The available trucking-type refrigeration units weren't robust enough; the old 40-ft. cars

Hi, It occurs to me to ask - did any of the RRs/owners convert ice reefers to mechanical by adding a refridgeration unit in the ice bunker section of the car? Don't remember ever seeing a photo of

And the side deformation on that gondola.

I don’t think those are “repairs.” And at that distance and the age of the cars, dimensions and weight information may be there, faded, but not visible. Schuyler

couple of ss boxcars, apparently in inhouse service as all dims and weight remarks all removed, and appears that both had repairs to the same spot.on both.cars, just to the left of the door, can't

Sweet. Notice the nearly hidden Canadian Pacific wood reefer seen above and behind the gondola coupled to the PFE reefer in the foreground. I'd like to know what that green tank car is. Tim