No one is going to import a "Tangent quality" RTR poultry car from China (or wherever). Ambroid wood kit, Overland brass, or scratchbuild. Them's the choices in HO

Yep, definitely below the stringer, and attached (abutted) to the end sill. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Dimensions per McMaster-Carr for 2-56 screw heads, 18-8 ss: Type Diameter (in) Height (in) /100 (1/4in) Truss 0.194 0.053 $4.96 Binding* 0.181 0.050

Interesting. I’ve seen 4-40 shears on wire strippers, but not 2-56. The former works, but requires cleanup. Ironically, my full size strippers will cut down to the 4-40, whereas the smaller

What you illustrate is called a “binder-head” screw. They have the thinnest head among the common screw types. Due to the shallow head few have Phillips or cross-head driving recesses. They were

David and Tim, The destruction of the inland redwoods was particularly brutal. Unlike the more sturdy coastal redwoods, the inland trees had very brittle wood. When the tree was felled, often a lot

Looks great. Hubert Mask

Yeah, someone reads the blogs I periodically write for the society. Brian J. Carlson

All the way at the left edge of the second photo https://dl.library.ucla.edu/islandora/object/edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.losAngelesDailyNews%3A1053 is another car that shows both diagonals

Are there any reasonably accurate ho scale models of these gondolas? Somewhere I read that Tichy made a gondola of this prototype but I think the ACY Gon had more panels than the model but I am not

Try Mainline Modeler August 2006 by Mont Switzer' Also try NKP Freight Equipment Diagrams — Nickel Plate Road Historical & Technical Society NKP Freight Equipment Diagrams — Nickel Plate Road

Acy1400 -1466 "installed" 12-1919. 1400 was converted to x986 tie car in April 1930. 1401 1402 and 30 others were sold/transferred to Columbia steel shafting Pittsburg in July 1920.

Brian Carlson asks: Bob since the D&M cars were postwar did they have the older 5/4 end or postwar IDE? Brian -- Per Ed Hawkins' spreadsheet, D&M's 1947 cars had the same older 4-5

Schuyler, This has nothing to do with keeping messages on your machine. Since Lee was responding to a group email in the thread, he clearly has THAT message. That's all he needs. Clicking on the link

Bruce, that works if you keep all the messages on your machine. I often wish people commenting on a photo would include the original link, as I am sure I am not the only one looking to keep my email

Enzo- It is a little confusing…. By “new” my guess is that it has a unique part number. The screening, structural vertical and diagonal members, and chickens all seem to be printed on a

Lee, You can deal with this without emailing the group. First, simply go the message thread on groups.io. You can do that from the link at the bottom of the message that says "View/Reply Online".

Don’t waste your money. As pointed out it is a steel boxcar where the sides have been replaced with mesh. And the mesh is not even correct. Here is a photo of PPKX 5131 Stentz. Backman’s model

Actually, it turns out that Lionel had TWO versions in HO…. Inspired by their O gauge one…that had interior lighting… Eric- I doubt that any manufacturer thinking of doing a poultry car

When I was building the Yarmouth kits for the earlier 14000-14299 series cars (which had the proprietary ACF ends and 7-foot doors) I also built one of the 8-foot door cars (14300-14599) cars using a