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Re: Atlas Swift 4-hinge reefer

Eric, according to the caption in the Billboard Refrigerator Cars book p. 180, the car was built by General American at their E Chicago shop. But the caption also contains errors giving the wrong

By Douglas Harding · #180851 ·

Re: H.C. Frick Hoppers

This is what the Frick hopper looked like brand new in 1905.

By Keith Retterer · #180850 ·

Re: Plow Bolts [was: Installing A New Deck On A Flat Car]

Sanding the round model bolt heads lightly makes them look more like flat heads. Mark Vinski

By Mark Vinski · #180849 ·

Re: H.C. Frick Hoppers

Eric and all My mistake on saying GLc as it should have been, GLa. Thanks for the information and the article from RMJ Larry Smith On

By Larry Smith · #180848 ·

Photos: UP Company Service Boxcar 912040 (Former Express Boxcar 9149)

Photos: UP Company Service Boxcar 912040 (Former Express Boxcar 9149) A photo from the Denver Public

By Bob Chaparro · #180847 ·

Re: Photo: Texaco Tank Car TCX 723 (1936)

6000-gal car, 173-gal dome, GA-built. There's a 1926 TROX 3-compartment car in Kaminski's tank car book with elbow valve, but no other examples from the 1920s spring to mind. No other Class III TCX

By Dave Parker · #180846 ·

Photo: Texaco Tank Car TCX 723 (1936)

1923 is fairly late for a safety valve elbow, but the dome is rather skinny. David Thompson

By David · #180845 ·

Re: Plow Bolts [was: Installing A New Deck On A Flat Car]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 02:27 PM, Tony Thompson wrote: . . . the regular flat head one as used for flatcar decking, and possibly other freight car uses . . . For HO modeling purposes, it reduces to a

By Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> · #180844 ·

Re: Plow Bolts [was: Installing A New Deck On A Flat Car]

Yet model flat cars continue to have raised bolt heads on decks . . . Tony Thompson tony@...

By Tony Thompson · #180843 ·

Re: 50' Mather stock cars

Thanks for taking the time to dig up this information, Richard. It helps! This is the sort of useful, primary source information I was looking for, and does firm up at least a design date of 1952 for

By Ray Breyer · #180842 ·

Re: 50' Mather stock cars

I agree that primary sources would be best, but the ideal primary material - the Mather records - likely do not exist. A wonderful alternative would be an article from Railway Age or similar

By Richard Townsend · #180841 ·

Re: Photo: Installing A New Deck On A Flat Car (Undated)

You learn something every day from sites like this. I'd never heard of a plow bolt before. I looked these up and it turns out there is an American standard for them, ASME B18.9. That means something

By mopacfirst · #180840 ·

Re: H.C. Frick Hoppers

Bowser produced a GLa decorated for Frick. It’s about halfway down this page on the left. https://www.bowser-trains.com/history/glahistory.html it does not seem like they have produced the H21

By Eric Hansmann · #180839 ·

Re: 1932 ARA MP cars and atlas

The attached table was compiled by Ted Culotta and Ed Hawkins in 2017. Includes many details of the prototypes. Brian Rochon Silver Spring, MD

By Brian Rochon · #180838 ·

Re: 1932 ARA MP cars and atlas

To find “old” Atlas stuff (in general) From main page ( https://shop.atlasrr.com/ ): - Production -> Archive - Drop down scale (HO/N/O) -> pick type (“Trainman” vs.

By akerboomk · #180837 ·

Re: H.C. Frick Hoppers

Hi Larry and List Members, Larry asked: "Bowser produced an H.C. Frick GLC hopper car. Did Frick indeed have hoppers and if so what happened to them" Let's take this one step at a time...

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #180836 ·

Photo: Installing A New Deck On A Flat Car (Undated)

Those bolts used on flat car decks, with a square shank below the head (similar to a carriage bolt), but with a flat and countersunk head are actually called "Plow Bolts." Installed, there is no

By Malcolm H. Houck · #180835 ·

Re: 1932 ARA MP cars and atlas

Don’t fret! My memory is shorter than the consist of a mixed train serving a soon to be abandoned dirt-ballasted branch line. Cheers, — Bill

By Bill Keene · #180834 ·

Re: 1932 ARA MP cars and atlas

I know the shock on everyone's face but I actually went back and check my files and found this. Hope it helps-- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

By O Fenton Wells · #180833 ·

Re: 1932 ARA MP cars and atlas

Thanks Ben. Bill Keene Irvine, CA

By Bill Keene · #180832 ·

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