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Re: Video: Steam Was Great On The Nickel Plate

Bob, many thanks for that link. I can't get enough of photo and film material of the good old steam days. NKP made excellent and very profitable use of its steam engines. For a rr mostly in flat

By vapeurchapelon · #173845 ·

Re: Photos: NP Boxcars

I realize the post was primarily about the boxcars in front of the flour mills. But for those who are also interested in the mills themselves, the Tacoma Grain Co. mill, later the Centennial Mill,

By Chuck Soule · #173844 ·

More C&O MW Cars

Friends, Here's a collection of C&O's ex-Pullman troop sleepers in MW service. Not exactly freight cars, but IIRC we agreed MW cars counted. The Allied Full Cushion truck appears to be from a

By Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...> · #173843 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

Yup. Built at the same time, in 1951, were the 500 of the 12000 X-3W’s by ACF numbered 49000 – 49499. Steve Hile

By Steve and Barb Hile · #173842 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

>> I would love to know it anyone has ever done this surgery and would love even more to see their results. << Hello Bill, I did this 20 years ago, see attached pic. I found out that the side

By vapeurchapelon · #173841 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

Tim, The teeth gnashing about this car was over all the fake-o roadnames RC and IM have issued it in. The list of prototypes for this car was very slim, according to Richard Hendrickson, and some of

By Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...> · #173840 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

As I recall, on of my models I slightly increased the visible depth of the walkways (from side view) with a narrow styrene strip laminated to the outside and inside underside edges of the etchings.

By leakinmywaders · #173839 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

Bill: It's way easier than it looks. I've done two of the Plano conversions. It's fairly quick and painless. More difficult than the walkway is relocating the brake equipment to the correct side of

By leakinmywaders · #173838 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

Steve, Is 49125 one of the 12K X-3 cars mentioned above. This car looks like the Red Caboose model on steroids. Also attached is DODX 12100, the class from which the RC model represents. This would be

By Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...> · #173837 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

For boxcars I switched to Kadee Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

By O Fenton Wells · #173836 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

Let us see photos of this Tim please so we can judge which we like. Bill Welch

By Bill Welch · #173835 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:59 AM, Bill Welch wrote: ... whenever I see a comment like ". . . it's pretty much an exact match to the Red Caboose model if you replace the running boards with open-grid

By Tom Madden · #173834 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

Steve Yes, Plano (and other etched stainless steel parts) are usually .010" while the correct thickness is .023". When DA "flat wire" was available I would use

By Tim O'Connor · #173833 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

I did one back in about 2007, but using pieces of Tichy plastic running boards, rather than Plano. The Plano always looks too thin and wavy for my taste/capabilities. Here is a picture from the

By Steve and Barb Hile · #173832 ·

Re: ATSF Mineral Brown

On another group Bill Jolitz commented, "...I have a drift card sample of PFE roof red. It matches NONE of the reefers ever produced over the years." Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

By Bob Chaparro · #173831 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

Bill just save the bolster/saddle and center sill and scratch build the rest of the frame. :-D Once you start to remove the cast running boards, that's all you'll be left with.

By Tim O'Connor · #173830 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

I have to admit whenever I see a comment like ". . . it's pretty much an exact match to the Red Caboose model if you replace the running boards with open-grid steel. Plano makes an etched metal set

By Bill Welch · #173829 ·

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

In 1920, UTLX purchased 1000 tank cars from General American to the GATC 1917 design, which is the Tangent car. Originally, these cars were numbered 70000 – 70999 as the beginning of the 7xxxx

By Steve and Barb Hile · #173828 ·

Re: CB&Q XM-30 boxcar

Group, Some photos of the CB&Q XM-30 boxcar have a placard on the door with Burlington Route. Does this have a black background or car color background? Thanks Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM

By Chuck Cover · #173827 ·

Re: What is This Tank Body?

It's an early tank car body - reminds me of very early "common standard" tank cars and also some Santa Fe tank cars. I've attached Tom Madden's ATSF Tk-G-5 resin tank model for

By Tim O'Connor · #173826 ·

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