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Re: K4 Decals: Anyone Have Experience With These?

Bob, search the archives. Plenty of discussion of K4. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA

By Dave Parker · #174548 ·

K4 Decals: Anyone Have Experience With These?

K4 Decals: Anyone Have Experience With These? Someone recommended this decal company to me. https://k4decals.com/ Comments? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

By Bob Chaparro · #174547 ·

2-56 tap drill (was Re: UMM Tools)

speaking of nice tools... Are there any good 2-56 tap drills out there for tapping steel? I've broken my second Kadee 2-56 tap drill and with shipping buying a replacement set

By Tim O'Connor · #174546 ·

Re: Hauling Sand before Covered Hoppers Became Popular

I'm good at passing blame : )) Gene Green who transcribed the info from the M&StL's mechanical engineer's notes. CW (wasn't me) Propst

By Clark Propst · #174545 ·

Re: Hauling Sand before Covered Hoppers Became Popular

Thanks Rupert. My list doesn’t include HT-3 and HT-4 so I need the information on those for my hopper roster. Here’s what I have. Will you provide the missing data? Class

By Nelson Moyer · #174544 ·

Re: Rapido PRR X31A Boxcar in HO

They are long past the early design phase - tooling is almost complete, samples hoped for by the end of the month (per the Rapido Live event last Friday). Someone did ask about the possibility of

By Gerald Henriksen · #174543 ·

Union Refrigerator Transit Lines (URTX) 95503

I decided to add a couple of refrigerator cars to the fleet plus I wanted an easier build. I have built the first of two Branchline Trains reefers . If you are interested in the build of Union

By Lester Breuer · #174542 ·

Re: Hauling Sand before Coverd Hoppers Became Popular

Todd Sullivan wrote: Well, yes, the sand used for glassmaking is certainly silica, but most sand is by no means pure silica. "Sand" is a term for finely divided rock, whatever the rock.

By Tony Thompson · #174541 ·

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Hauling Sand before Covered Hoppers Became Popular

Maybe not relevant (no sand was listed) by my database from 1934 Southern Railway in North Carolina includes the following (cement, plaster, and soda ash all in boxcars): columns are Road, car number,

By A&Y Dave in MD · #174540 ·

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Hauling Sand before Covered Hoppers Became Popular

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:52 AM, Schuyler Larrabee wrote: This page mentions “green sand” which it defines as Green Sand is silica sand. Googling “green sand” gets you to what is apparently

By Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> · #174539 ·

Re: Photo: Boxcar Underframe

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:16 AM, Bob Chaparro wrote: Is it just me or do the two longitudinal frame members seem spaced unusually far apart?Yes. It actually looks like a passenger car underframe; I

By Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> · #174538 ·

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Hauling Sand before Covered Hoppers Became Popular

In Pittsburgh they were cement trucks to the Italian construction workers but concrete trucks to the rest. Often called “Italian ice cream!”

By CJ Riley <cjriley42@...> · #174537 ·

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Hauling Sand before Covered Hoppers Became Popular

Elden, the HM and HT are open hoppers. The GS & GBS are gons. The LO is one of the MSTL covered hoppers used for company sand. They only had 10 of these cars. Also note that Clark has typed an

By Douglas Harding · #174536 ·

Re: Rapido PRR X31A Boxcar in HO

Charlie, The X31B/C would need a new mold. Much easier to get X31s out of the current mold with floor tubes and end fixtures (maybe an etched brass part?). The single door flush roof cars such as N&W

By Bruce Smith · #174535 ·

Re: Hauling Sand before Coverd Hoppers Became Popular

General Sand coming out of an open pit was exposed to the weather. So an open car, gon or hopper was the norm. Only specialty sands that were in bags or barrels would warrant a boxcar. Doug

By Douglas Harding · #174534 ·

Re: Rapido PRR X31A Boxcar in HO

Tim, In addition to my clinic? ;) Yes, the RP Cyc did articles on the PRR cars, the cars PRR sold and the non-PRR clones or near clones. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn Al

By Bruce Smith · #174533 ·

Re: Rapido PRR X31A Boxcar in HO

Is there documentation for the "inset" vs "flush" roof feature on the X31/X32 cars ? All of the NP cars I've seen had the "flush" roofs. On 6/16/2020 3:41 PM,

By Tim O'Connor · #174532 ·

Re: Hauling Sand before Covered Hoppers Became Popular

190000-191749 were twin hoppers in classes HT-1 to HT-4, built between 1926 and 1929 with an outside length of 35’ 1”. 190672 was an HT-2, built at Galesburg in 1927-8. 192000-193199 covered

By Rupert Gamlen · #174531 ·

Re: Rapido PRR X31A Boxcar in HO

All- Since Rapido is still in the early design phases they could add the X31b and gain a couple more road names and additional paint schemes. Perhaps the PRR people can chime in on any more

By Charlie Vlk · #174530 ·

Re: C&IM coal gondola service?

The run by of the freight with C&IM gondolas looks like the Santa Fe in Illinois - where I'd expect to see those cars. On 6/12/2020 4:22 PM, vapeurchapelon wrote:

By Tim O'Connor · #174529 ·

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