For the ‘what it worth’ discussion on bobbers. While writing the Missouri-Illinois RR book I had some correspondence that showed the railroad’s bobber cabooses were retired and given to the

Chuck, Not all "bobbers" were the same. The critical component was the underframe. While many were built with wood underframes, the type lasted long enough to have some built with steel underframes

Yipes! Weren't all the "bobber" cabooses wooden? Seems like that 2-10-2 would've made toothpicks out of it! -Chuck Greene

Bill, The diagram for the B-50-27 class is available at: https://harley-trains.smugmug.com/UPFreightDiagrams/Box-Car/ It states an "all welded" underframe, as well as having info about the trucks,

This is a trunnion type coupler carrier. It functions much as do swing hangers on passenger truck assemblies. The coupler shank rests on the support bar which is suspended on each end by swing hanger

Not quite that simple, Tony. The June 1946 double medallion scheme with color UP medallion, Black hardware and units on the dimensional and CAPY data had the SP medallion next to the door. The

Marty, Those cars are too tall, being 10'-0" IH. The cars you are thinking of were CN 580000 - 580999, which were built in 1923 as 9'-0" door and a half automobile cars. Between 1933 - 1940 they were

Tony Thanks -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Charlie Duckworth <omahaduck@...> wrote: If you are doing the scheme with a color UP emblem, then the SP emblem is next to the door on both sides (i.e. both sides are identical). If you do the B&W UP

One more question…on the A end of the car was the UP shield closest to the ladder or was the SP logo? Being more familiar with ART the MP and a Wabash were swapped depending A or B end. thanks

-- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Any pictures out there? -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Wonder why they haven't even tried to down load these to disc and sell the whole thing for home use. When Randy closed the business, he sold all of the magazines from day one to the end and my club

Thank you for sharing your RIP Track work. Wonderful. Thank you also for setting a bar to work toward. It is great to have good examples to follow. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Des Plaines Hobbies also made some double sill steps, of the side-mount design (I already had bottom-mount design, from... Tichy or DA).They were out of stock for years, so I bought enough for my

You are most welcome, Larry. Don't know why trainlife can't get this fixed. The critical parts are the three letter code for the magazine and then the year and month. mrr is model railroading, ptm

I am more than familiar with that piece of the NYC High Line. The building was the Bell Telephone Laboratories location called "WEST STREET". I worked out of there for a short period of time. The

The grain doors do not match the plans Sunshine published. The boards are 2x too wide. Jared Harper Jared those ARE Sunshine grain doors Clark

 Hi Bob and List Members, Thanks Bob for these awesome images. I will point out that the leftmost boxcar in the image, SP&S 3077, is stencilled with "NOTICE: DO NOT LOAD THIS CAR FOR POINTS OFF

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