So, a completely different question from looking at this picture: whose version of radial roof would this be, based upon the visible stampings as we see them from the underside? Brent Dr. J. Brent

Hi Bob, I think it's called steel strapping and furring strips. The clue is the device held by the worker - it is used to tension and then crimp the steel strapping. Not hi-tech, but cheap and

Photo: Boxcar Load Restraining System (Circa 1940s) A photo from the Virginia Tech University Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns1128 This photo can be enlarged. Can anyone

Photo: Case Cub Tractor Emerging From An End Door Boxcar (Undated) https://tinyurl.com/y3qxb85r A comment by Charlie Vlk: "I’d bet that the car has been repainted for publicity purposes….I

In addition to the information I wrote in Message #176921 , WFE and FGE cars normally retained their original vertical brake shafts through WWII. In 1948 WFE and FGE began to rebuild many of their

I believe I see a vertical staff brake wheel barely sticking above the ice hatch at the left end. Above the W in Western.

Question for the group on this photo cited by Bob Chaparro back on the 17th: https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A112263 The brake wheel arrangement (vertical staff or horizontal

Garth I have a package of 40' PS-1 roofs from IM part 40400-06 BCR. I used one of the parts to backdate a PS-1 model but there are three roofs left in the package. I will sell you all three for the

Friends, Can anyone point me to a hobby dealer who still might have IM PS-1 40' roofs for sale? I've done several useless searches on the web (and got the expired IM page offering them for sale!), but

A new resource file on truss rod end freight cars is available on my DesignBuildOp blog. This was a detail found on many freight cars in the first couple decades of the 20th Century. Many thanks to

Photo: PRR X31A Boxcar 77556 A photo by D. W. Davidson on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwdavidson/3993462291/in/album-72157713215510277/ Yes, taken past this group's era, but a

I snagged two of the Sunshine 67.1 NYC gon directly from Sunshine at, I think, Naperville. Built one and put one on eBay because it was one of those cars that were probably infrequent visitors to my

With styrene sheet and Archer surface decals, it would be pretty easy to do a steel floor would it not? Bill Welch

Great info, thank you Garth! Just what we (me too) needed Tom & Bill. If only we could read the dim data. Indeed no lines above and below WP & rd#. These were added when the silver repaint started

Of those railroads, the Vans only owned the NKP. At one time, the Gould Syndicate owned or controlled the W&LE, P&WV, and WM. This was before WW1. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

weren't most of these owned or controlled by the van sweringen brothers?, at this time and stitched together to survive via competition, via faster schedules and connections ;-) mel perry

The Alphabet Route Website This site was announced here in 2008 and has been discussed just a few times since, mainly on the topic of freight car diagrams The website ( http://alphabetroute.com/ )

OK, I'm going to take a chisel blade or something to mine to help it flatten down better. I never seem to be able to file down the edges of mine enough to get them to lay right, probably because I'm

The inner floor is separate so you can sandwich a weight between it and the car floor. The underframe is cast with the body, and the view from underneath is of a wood floor. If you can tolerate that,

Tom. Does that floor fit as a separate piece into the underframe of the kit? I’m wondering if I could remove that wooden floor and scratch a steel floor. Modeling 57 I should have one with a steel