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Re: Speaking of stockcars…sharing a trick

On the Santa Fe the number of cattle in a car was governed by the season of the year. More cattle could be accomodated per car if the cattle were headed to the Kansas Flint Hills for fattening than

By Jared Harper · #191716 ·

Re: Bachmann Drop-End Gons

The PRR one doesn't match the G31A it claims to be. The Santa Fe isn't turning up in Hendrickson's gondola book. Can't be sure about the UP, but I do doubt it. I am curious what it IS. What's nice

By spsalso · #191715 ·

Re: Speaking of stockcars…sharing a trick

Here is a standard chart showing how many animals fit into a stockcar. Doug Harding https://www.facebook.com/douglas.harding.3156/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK8X8Yb8NEAZqbZjHT5z0sA

By Douglas Harding · #191714 ·

Re: FORGOTTEN TREASURES

On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 01:40 PM, Dave Nelson wrote: MM had its own kind of flaws… none of the drawings were dimensioned. Dave, that's simply dead wrong. As a check on memory, I grabbed a dozen or

By Jack Mullen · #191713 ·

Re: GBW Aluminum Traffic (was Manifest of Lading)

Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote: That would be Massena, which I mentioned. Tony Thompson tony@...

By Tony Thompson · #191712 ·

Bachmann Drop-End Gons

I'm passing along this question that was sent to the CAJON group. Thanks for any help, John Thompson DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE ATSF, UP, AND PRR ACCURATELY REPRESENT THESE RAILROADS?

By John Thompson · #191711 ·

Re: Speaking of stockcars…sharing a trick

Steve SANDIFER wrote: Yes, he did use packing peanuts, painted gray. I have one of his stock cars so loaded. But I must admit, you have to really look carefully to see anything inside. Stock car

By Tony Thompson · #191710 ·

Re: DL&W - MDT refrigerator

Good find, Tim. Definitely a DSI build. Stan Rydarowicz parts and Microscale 87-890 decals and there you go. I managed to find some of Stan's parts recently, already have the decals and an

By Rich C · #191709 ·

DL&W - MDT refrigerator

This just arrived today and I thought I'd re-share since photos of DL&W refrigerator cars seem to be fairly scarce. :-) Tim O' -- Tim O'Connor Sterling,

By Tim O'Connor · #191708 ·

Re: GBW Aluminum Traffic (was Manifest of Lading)

Dave There was a large smelter in upstate New York on Lake Ontario for about a CENTURY. There is a LOT of hydropower in the area, and a great deal of it is now

By Tim O'Connor · #191707 ·

Re: Speaking of stockcars…sharing a trick

IIRRC, Richard Hendrickson used styrene 'peanuts' for animals. Light weight, squishable, and painted to whatever colors of the livestock your RR hauled. Todd Sullivan

By Todd Sullivan · #191706 ·

Re: Chateau Martin wine color

Tony I can't believe how I butchered that car and the Laconia Ralston Purina reefer. I was in High School, summer vacation in Columbus OH visiting my Aunt and Uncle and we were in a model railroad

By O Fenton Wells · #191705 ·

Re: Chateau Martin wine color

I miss Floquil. Their Polly Scale Fantasy line had a nice Magenta; I used it to paint a DT&I 86' hycube. I forget what it was called. Something "Ogre" IIRC. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni On 4/3/22,

By BRIAN PAUL EHNI · #191704 ·

Re: Speaking of stockcars…sharing a trick

As l understand it the gases of a sewage lagoon tend to replace the air rather than pollute it the smell from a train would merely stink🙄

By Philip Dove · #191703 ·

Green Marked Coal

Is anyone familiar with "Green Marked Coal"? This coal came out of Southern Illinois was hauled primarily by the CB&Q. The book "The Q in the Coal Fields" said that it was sprayed with cheap green

By Matt Smith · #191702 ·

Re: PM printed underframe

I agree regarding the fine detail. The designer printer is looking at nearly 100 cars of all types printed so this approach is fine with him. A little time with the nipper and a drill and I will be

By Joseph · #191701 ·

Re: PM printed underframe

I've been designing and printing (Shapeways) my own details parts for awhile now, and even tried someone else's printed flatcar, but I still think the near future is going to be a hybrid, a

By radiodial868 · #191700 ·

Re: Speaking of stockcars…sharing a trick

As the recipient of a research grant from EPA to study the distribution of human pathogens in hog waste at hog confinement facilities and their sewage lagoons, I can assure you that you do not want to

By Nelson Moyer · #191699 ·

Re: Speaking of stockcars…sharing a trick

I once bought hundreds of pigs to put in my double deck stockcars, and realised that hard plastic pigs don't squeeze together like real flesh and blood creatures. They also added significantly to the

By Philip Dove · #191698 ·

Re: Chateau Martin wine color

Bud Rindfleisch wrote: Bud, I used Vallejo 70.945, called “magenta.” It’s a fine match to the old Laconia kits, produced when the prototypes were running. For more on my use of it, you might

By Tony Thompson · #191697 ·

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