Thank for a clear and helpful approach to these levers. Very much appreciated, Eric! Lawrence Rast Fort Wayne, Indiana Lawrence R. Rast, Jr. Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne, Indiana

I installed Carmer uncoupling levers on a few models recently. Prototype details and installation tips are featured in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post.

There were some glorious monsters in the good old days, including the Solano and the Contra Costa, both over 400 feet long. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solano_(ferry)> -- The thong is ended but

It's a bit of a revelation for me. Tony answered my basic question about PFE colours the other day, but my long understanding of PFE car colour - and especially the colour it faded to - was not as

David Thanks for the additional information on the interior. I’d learned something new today -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

The early outside-steel sheathed cars in the 1910s and '20s were referred to as "double-sheathed" in the literature of the time. This can sometimes make it difficult to know if a given car had wood or

The Brooke Avenue terminal was a shared facility with the New York Philadelphia & Norfolk (PRR), so they certainly could have interchanged there, though that would a rather roundabout way to do

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 01:52 PM, np328 wrote: one must recall that at the time, the billboard ban on freight cars was well into the future.This is not my area of expertise, but I thought the

Todd, It is my understanding the Brook Avenue Yard was isolated and did not connect on land with any other railroad. It is my understanding that cars were shuttled between C&O's Newport News

Here (attached) are my railroads observations on single vs double sheathed from about 100 years ago. Of the fifth listed reason for double sheathing, one must recall that at the time, the billboard

Who did the C&O interchange with via car ferry at Norfolk? PRR at Cape Charles perhaps? Todd Horton On

Many thanks to Bruce, Steve, and Dennis for explain the sheathing terminology. Bill L

That photo appeared in Model Railroad Planning 2002 in an article on Brook Avenue Yard by Bernard Kempinski.. I always thought it would make a great model railroad. Jim Brewer

It's a postwar reefer on the left, but yeah, it's after 1945. On 5/15/2022 9:09 PM, pennsylvania1954 wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I remember this grew up in Norfolk was off Boush St downtown Doug Pillow

Dennis Storek wrote: "As to side agreements to handle non-compliant cars, someplace I ran into a reference That one of the major Canadian roads agreed to handle non-compliant cars for the Pacific

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 10:11 AM, Bruce Smith wrote: First, we’re really talking about cars with composite (steel and wood) or wood superstructures. While wood sheathing is applied to the interior

Bob, Thanks for sharing. This yard is a good prototype for a model layout in a very small space. Ken Montero

Walthers once made cast-metal ribs for boxcars:. No. 946-3001 were sheet metal pressed to create a rib. No. 946-933 was a white metal casting (with running

Photo: Car Ferry At Brooke Avenue Yard Photo and information from the U.S. Military Railroad