For a short while it was also used for locomotive and automotive headlights designed to burn acetylene. It was used until electric light bulbs and their elements improved enough to survive rough use

I remember those toy cannons! I think vinegar or some other liquid was added to set off the reaction. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Is there any source of 8' wide Superior Doors for a 10' IH Boxcar? If not looks like scratcbulding time. Rick Jesionowski

Guys, I own six R18,19 & 21 cars of their previous 'Wegmann' runs. ALL of them had severe underframe and brake system problems, wrong heralds and or dates, etc. So during all those years nothing

I have a small (16”long) model cannon that my dad used to fire every once in a while, which used Calcium Carbide as the explosive force. I don’t know how to use it (which may be just as well , .

I hate picking apart someone else's work, but in the interest of not furthering misinformation: Page nine has a cut-away view of a KC brake having an integral cut-out cock; this may well be an

That is correct Don. You are refering specifically to GPEX #803 and #804 both of which were rebuilds of earlier wood sheathed milk tank cars. General American used a cover for the two 3,000 gal.

Hi Garth, Back in the 1990s and early 2000s I used to regularly get to check out the railroad cars being handled at the former SP yard in South San Francisco. A car much like this one, perhaps even

Dave, there is absolutely no shortage of excellent information about air brakes. I'm pretty sure we've all been discussing them by email for the past 25 years. Here are a couple

Garth, The reporting mark CCKX is not listed in my July 1958 ORER. A google search of reporting marks indicates it is assigned to CCKX Incorported!

Richard, What looks like "rust" turns out to be the leftover FCR paint! At first I was noticing the white around the hatches, thinking salt, and therefore thinking rust. I was wondering what iron

Dennis, Such as....? Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 12:42:55 AM, you wrote:

Tim, There is a term for those who state there are errors, but don't point them out or offer correct information . "Editor" is the nicest of those. Please share better sources. Is the author wrong

Them who knowingly spreads misinformation is just as guilty as them who creates it. ;-) As HST was fond of saying, the buck stops here! -- Tim O'Connor Sterling,

CALCIUM CARBIDE containers. Not waste, but evidently nasty stuff. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

When built, the cars were painted Harriman standard freight car maroon (described as Hershey bar wrapper brown). By the 1930s the standard color was pretty much out of the bottle Boxcar

How true that is Tim. Anyone who saw Saving Private Ryan must remember the German tank #314 only it isn't a German tank. It is a Russian T-34 with the glacis plate changed to make it look more like a

I have completed the kitbash project of the IC SS box car provided as the mini-kit at the 2019 Chicagoland RPM gathering. I have prime-painted the model and now need to finish it. Not being an IC fan

Friends, The attached photo of a container car is well beyond our era of interest. I was hoping to learn more about the car itself to see if it would barely scrape into our last year or so. The car in

Just the messenger Dennis, just the messenger. Bill Welch