Good to know Todd. I wasn’t a fan of the 2 piece truck Fenton

Strike Photos/SOO Boxcar (1938) Photos from the San Francisco Public

That was Collins Pine during the times I was spending summers there in Chester, on the shore of Almanor (at least the Chester Boat Landing is) railroad *west* of Westwood. Robert Hanft's _Red River_

Clark, The new 'one piece' Kadee trucks can be a handful when you go to install them, but I found that using their included 'washer' helps a good deal. You have to hold the truck together by pinching

Yeah, I dislike the Kadee design as well. Very problematic with some models. I did not know they had redone the Vulcans in the new material. They added a spring plank, which I

Time asked if they were Vulcan trucks. Yes they are. The original buyer of the kit put a pair of Kadee trucks in the box. They were the newer one piece truck, or so I thought, It appears there are two

Tim Kadee do Vulcan trucks. I don’t know if anyone else does them. Paul Doggett

Tim, Thank you for the explanation. Now I understand what to look for. Rich Remiarz Sent from Mail for Windows

A few quick points to add to this thread. 1. 50' Pullman OH roof from Athearn's 1960s NACC RBLs. Available from Cannon and Company as a part right off the website. 2. The Tangent Scale Models

Cool, I did not know that! There were many PS-1 plug door cars with those roofs. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Cannon catologs the Athearn Genesis Bowtie roof. 3110 (cannonandco.net) Mike Clements Wakefield, MA nyc65.wordpress.com

That's a beauty Clark ! Are those Vulcan trucks ? Who makes them ? -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Rich I have tried to illustrate in this picture of a Branchline roof. When SRE revised the design the narrow end of the stamping was extended as far as the wider end of

Nice looking car, Clark! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Clark Propst via groups.io" <cepropst@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date:

Tim, You may be correct. I don't have an ORER of the proper vintage here, just looked up the AAR Mechanical designnations for tank cars, and came up with TG. However, that must be an open tank, not

Rich, if I’m not mistaken, the most visible difference between the earlier and later version of this roof is how far the narrow leg of the raised impressions in each panel extend toward the roof’s

Clark Very nice job. Paul Doggett

First car on the layout this year. Speedwitch kit. Beautiful casting there were etched parts included. I’m not an etched parts person. I used some and substituted for others. Clark Propst Mason City

American Bridge Company had an HQ and large scale bridge-building plant in Gary, Indiana on the EJ&E. The facility is still in the steel fabrication business, now served by

Doug, On January 3, Tim O’Connor posted that the Moloco roof is based on the late 1950’s version, while the 3500 series cars had the earlier version. I don’t know enough about the two