Thanks. Never thought to look at F&C website. And the Kinkaid collection is slowly starting to show up in my brain as another place on the web that I should probably check first. You're right about

The Northern Pacific built 200 4-wheel cabooses between 1905 and 1907. They had a 12-ft wheelbase, were 19 feet over the end sills (body length) and 24 feet 2 inches over the coupler pockets. There

Paul When I was researching my Missouri-Illinois RR book I found that the MR&BT’s bobber cabooses were ‘grandfathered’ under the Missouri RR Commission laws. Meaning the four wheeled cabooses

Let me add that there are a couple of nice prototype pictures among the Jim Kinkaid collection at IRM Pullman Library Railroad-U-Z - Pullman-Library (smugmug.com) Steve Hile

There is a model underbody view on their webpage at 8140.html (fandckits.com) Steve Hile

I built one of these F&C kits. Build notes and photos were posted to my blog in 2013. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2013/06/18/resin-freight-car-kit-builds-part-2/ F&C promoted this kit as an

Where four wheeled Bobbers “outlawed”, outlawed from interchange, or was there a series of different laws and regulations beginning and ending at political boundaries? Paul Catapano Winchester,

I'm building an F&C mill gon, specifically the one with McKeesport Connecting decals, although the kit instructions note that Union and other US Steel roads had identical cars. The brake gear

Chuck what class are they? Ft-?? Tim O'Connor -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Steve, There is an extensive discussion of the processes involved, but by and large, it was by state legislation, usually with respect to labor law. There is a discussion of the process of creating

I’d start with the Fine N Scale PRR X31 and scab on some ends Brian

Do you have a date that the four wheel cabooses were outlawed? With others freight cars there was a date when cars weren’t accepted in interchange, for instance K brakes, but since cabooses

Reference further above may be to past posts 72758, 72759, and 72775 concerning bobbers. James Dick - Roseville, MN

Hi group, I am looking for the instruction sheet for Sunshine Kit #66.3, ATSF Ft L&N 48'6" flat car with bulkheads. I am hoping that the instructions have a photo of the B end and brake appliances.

I think it has been mentioned here that the State authorities regulating railroads outlawed four wheel “bobbers” and specified other aspects (underframes, accommodations) of cabooses (waycars,

Perhaps this video is a banana train. Lots of reefers. Colin Meikle https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nJuGMbK_nvk

trying to create in N scale,. looks like I could take an Atlas '32 and put a PRR round roof on it and if I could find the PS carbuilder ends (didn't somebody create them for the Collinsville

Go Ken Go, I've found that on the resin cars I missed or just were not willing to pay the asking price that I can come pretty close to having a close copy by BASHING. And I can credit all that to

It was $5.00 on the used shelf at my LHS and I have a weakness for 40' DD box cars. This one is lettered for D&RGW 65192 Model RC-8513-c. It was minimally partially built. There was a long trail of

Wish the site had photos… So apparently, the Dallas museum got both cabooses, then repatriated one of them. The other went with the rest of the collection to Frisco? Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from