Most railroads had a long standing rule that poling was only to be done using the pole provided for that purpose, which was always fitted with steel bands on the ends to prevent splitting. So, any

Upgrading wheelsets and couplers are important to meet your standards. It's the first thing anyone should do before putting an RTR freight car into the fleet. Weathering and updating the weight and

These cars were built in 1948 by DSI as part of the MDT std steel car of the time except they had sliding doors and were built as RB; Cars were lettered into the ERDX 9900 series around 1951 and into

One down, 7 to go. Ok I know, not much modeling just changed wheels and couplers, and weathered it. But the cars are nice. Brian J. Carlson -- Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY

I’m with you Bruce, I need about 100 1.035 for Bowser Crown trucks. Brian J. Carlson -- Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Ken, Unfortunately, the Moloco axle length is 1.005" which is pretty much useless for most of the axle needs I have (lots of Bowser, which needs 1.020 to 1.035" axles so as not to be too

I used the new Moloco 33-inch diameter code 88 wheels in Tichy Andrews trucks for the SP&S 40 ft. flat car project and they rotate very well and are not loose. Ken Adams Still in splendid Shelter In

Now all that is needed is to ship Paul's cars from Plymouth, England, to Kent, WA/USA to Bill Messecar’s layout. Bill is modeling the area around Corona, CA, and has a scratch-built model of the

Happy New Year Arved & Group!!! The Ft. Dodge Line was the first of three Salzberg roads to receive the refurbished B&M XM-1 SS cars of 1929/30. The painting practice on those cars, done in the B&M's

On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 11:06 AM, O Fenton Wells wrote: Bill, did you ever get to meet Tommy Bissett from Winter Haven FL?Fenton - I've heard the name, but never got to meet him -- Bill

Here is an example of one on the tender of ES&S 6 in the park in East Jordan, Michigan. Steve Hile

I did it on an operating session on the Comanche & Indian Gap Live Steam layout, quite fun Prototype N Scale Models (TM) by George Hollwedel 2108 Buffalo Tundra Dr Austin, TX 78754-5960

Looking over the few photos I've found of FDDM&S box cars from the transition era, has left me a few questions as to the paint scheme. Looks like underframe including trucks were black. Ends are the

For both the NP Rapido boxcars, all 16 of them, and their USRA DS boxcars, factory wheelsets were replaced with Intermountain 0.88 wheels. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Bruce, My club has about 500 cars equipped with Accurail or Bowser rigid truck frames fitted with I/M .0888 wheels. It became our de facto standard several years ago. We have had no problems with

See "Poling Railroad cars" -- http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2015/07/poling-railroad-cars.html More than a few steam locomotives carried a pole on one side of the tender, as

I have enjoyed this thread but, while I have may have missed it, I don’t recall seeing WHY the practice of poling was banned by at least a majority railroads. An article I read years and years

Thanks Ken, looked funky on my end the first time. Happy New Year! William aka drgwk37

Tim, What you say is true - and not ... for me, and for reasons I don't fully understand, I get different things (learn more/see more/see differently?) from looking at books in my lap than I do

James Thank you. Paul Doggett