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Kit-bash fodder - Mid 1920s 3/3/3 dreadnaught end

Thanks for the suggestion Paul. I will be going with Andy Carlson's 3/3/3 end, rather than cutting up the Roundhouse car. With a little more research I realized I needed 2/3/3 ends, so will have to

By Robert kirkham · #177288 ·

Re: Mid 1920s 3/3/3 dreadnaught end

You can get Roundhouse shells here for $1 each, plus shipping. http://www.gallowayenterprise.com/ Paul Krueger Seattle, WA

By Paul Krueger · #177287 ·

SP 5730 express 40' box car 1950 color image

Photographed in the city of Oakland, CA in 1950. Southern Pacific passenger green Railway Express Agency 40' Southern Pacific box car with alternating centered riveting. A scan from a Kodachrome slide

By Andy Carlson · #177286 ·

Mid 1920s 3/3/3 dreadnaught end

Rob- I have molds for the WP/MP/T&P SS double door autocar, same prototype as the MDC kit. Mine has no molded on grabs and brake gear. I could cast you a polyurethane pair if that could be helpful for

By Andy Carlson · #177285 ·

Mid 1920s 3/3/3 dreadnaught end

Looking for a part for a model part (HO scale) - an inward protruding dreadnaught end with 3/3/3 configuration. The design is mid to late 1920s. I’m wondering if I may need a sacrificial MDC

By Robert kirkham · #177284 ·

Re: image from Homestead, PA in 1915

What catches my eye is the early interlocking steel sheet piling lining the excavations in the foreground. Here is a brief history quoted from this web

By Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> · #177283 ·

image from Homestead, PA in 1915

Hi List Members, I have been having an enjoyable time taking in what there is to see on this image from Homestead, PA in 1915 and linked below...

By Claus Schlund $HGM$ · #177282 ·

Re: Santa Fe 5-5-5-2 ends

you could try asking Chad Boas. I've had good luck getting other S-N-T ends from him. JimH

By Jim Hayes · #177281 ·

Re: Flat Black

Using Star Brand paint I initially had a problem with some minor chipping over time. Talking to Jimmy Booth of PBL of the problem he told me that it is imperative that use their thinner with both

By Lee Thwaits · #177280 ·

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Teens and Twenties shipments of Ford cars via box cars

That is very cool stuff, Andy! Elden Gatwood

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD · #177279 ·

Re: New Precision Scale Co

My experience has been that there is no price difference. Chuck Happel 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? George

By Charles Happel · #177278 ·

Re: Santa Fe 5-5-5-2 ends

Al, Greg had a number of those ends cast and they were available through him. I picked up one of if not the last one that he had at CCB this year. Greg had also been working on masters for the

By John Barry · #177277 ·

Re: Teens and Twenties shipments of Ford cars via box cars

Here's what looks to me to be Studebakers "stuffed" into a Santa Fe drop bottom gondola. Think these autos only included everything from firewall back, i.e. no motor, body & chassis in front of it.

By Andy Jackson · #177276 ·

Re: New Precision Scale Co

I have purchased Precision Scale parts from their store on eBay, I don’t know if there is a significant price advantages or disadvantages to doing it this way, but their service is quick and

By Steve and Barb Hile · #177275 ·

Santa Fe 5-5-5-2 ends

In 2014 Greg Martin did a clinic on Santa Fe rebuilt boxcars, one of the detail parts was a 5-5-5-2 end. Does anyone in the group know where I can get two sets of those ends.I tried working with Tichy

By Allan Smith <smithal9@...> · #177274 ·

Re: New Precision Scale Co - also PIA parts

They also have PIA (former PFM?) parts. Ken Montero

By Kenneth Montero · #177273 ·

Teens and Twenties shipments of Ford cars via box cars

Here is a link to a lot of info and photos about the process: http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/331880/399443.html?1383834795 The autos were partially disassembled to fit more into each box

By Charles · #177272 ·

Re: New Precision Scale Co

Their web site <precisionscaleco.com> has the contact info phone, email, as well as catalogs and price lists. As Nelson mentions only the family members are handling the business now, but they have

By Charles Morrill · #177271 ·

Re: New Precision Scale Co

precision's phone is 5095289711 the.hobby shop is tj's model trains same address different phone (509) 528-3161 good people mel perry

By mel perry · #177270 ·

Re: C&EI Postwar AAR 50' Boxcar – Front Range Upgrade #5

Awesome Bob, love the finds you do in your "stash" Way too modern for me but what a neat car. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

By O Fenton Wells · #177269 ·

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