For those interested in lead stickon's see below. However they won't ship to CA and a few other states. https://www.imperialsupplies.com/item/0798580 -- Jon MillerFor

All, Thanks to those who have provided additions and corrections to the reweigh station symbols list recently posted. I have incorporated all that I have received and anticipate uploading the revised

You’re pretty close to the NMRA recommendation for a forty foot house car with metal wheels. I use seven of the ¼ oz. tire weights, and that’s very close to the recommendation. For those not

For those interested, I have compiled *all* the statistics for the B&M, for the years they published individual RR data (1917-1963) (plus 1914-1916 regional/national data) NOTE: Even if you aren't

This R-40-2 retains it's applied metal emblem. Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Having observed truck performance for over 50 years I think the NMRA recommended weights give the best long term results for tracking, rolling resistance, wear & tear, coupling

Who owns the tooling for the ex-Red Caboose PRR style trucks? Bill Welch

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 06:54 PM, Bob Chaparro wrote: ( snip ) Photos: PFE 36624 (R-40-2) Undated photos from the Library of Congress, probably from the early

Allen, On an older run of their 1917 design cars I simply used Micro Sol (red label). I cut a tiny piece of paper towel the size of the lettering and placed it over the lettering to be removed

You can actually read the date on the brake service stencil -- looks like 10-1-40 (or maybe 10-4-40). K brakes had to be serviced every 15 months at this time, so that narrows the date of the photo

John Vachon photos for FSA/OWI Chicago, July 1941. Carload of onions. Note that they're packed in mesh bags and a temporary wooden deck is used to void stacking too high. Jack Mullen

I have never paid any attention to the NMRA weighting recommendations and couldn't begin to say what they are. For styrene cars I use what I am given. For resin cars of any kind I use I use six of

Sure they did: https://www.tangentscalemodels.com/general-american-10000-gallon-1917-design-radial-course-tank-car/ Randy -- — Randy Hammill Prototype Junction http://prototypejunction.com Modeling

I hope there is a prototype for the red car. I have a Arnold Rapido N scale car. I have been hanging onto it for.years I don't know what type of tank car the model is but I think it is a nice

Incidentally, I was recently in a brick and mortar shop that had one each of the Tangent Scale Modesl Humble and Sinclair 10,000 GATC 1917-Design tank cars. In case anyone is interested in those,

Andy, Not wanting to get into a flame war here, especially with oil refinery products about, but your statement: "Rio Grande, while being owned by Richfield Oil, was the recipient of the only US 48

Andy Carlson wrote: "I don't believe that Tangent has made a 10000 gallon GATC tank car (yet). " Andy, Tangent has a website and this page shows our 1917-design tanks with 10,000 gallon radial course

Rich Christie wrote: Actually, the modeling description was an article in Railroad Model Craftsman, published back in July 2011. I don't have a scan of the article, but do have a PDF of what I

That's pretty much what I was thinking. B&W photos might be scarce since with some film black-on-red = black. FWIW, Socony-Vacuum (another baby Standard - Standard Oil Company of New York) had some

1948 is still in the post war optimism era. Could it have been a one off for display purposes. It wouldn’t be the first time that error was made. A certain heavily over-represented obscure tank car