I'm currently on a mission to add more Canadian freightcars to my roster as I need to fill out BN trains 381 (Butte-Great Falls-Sweetgrass/Coutts, AB), and train 382 (Sweetgrass/Coutts, AB-Great

I dunno, Bob - the attach points of the brackets on the upper grab are in line, but it appears the "hat" section of the left bracket has been bent upwards. Tom Madden

Thanks guys. This is a 5-6-5 door as in the below photo. Tim, I'm not sure about 10'6 IH, but after looking a bit, afaik the CNJ cars might be the only prototype 10' IH.cars with that style of

Tim, I’m not sure there was minikit for these cars, but Sunshine did produce a full resin kit for this series of cars. You could probably use the 5/5 square corner Dreadnaught ends RCW and Sunshine

Grab Iron On SFRD 7918 Photo from Karl Sollmann on the Facebook Freight Car Photos group. Looks to me like this is the way the grab iron was attached rather than damaged. This is a great relief to

Hi Folks, The letters “STMFC” stand for “Steam-era Freight Cars”. And that is the intended topic for this group. I’m sure there are other groups that deal with software

I used to get guitar strings free from the music store. Anytime I went there I'd find drops of strings on the floor from where they changed strings, a lot of it. Some would look at me funny but most

Ah ! I didn't notice the S corner ends. That would explain why P2K did no model. Was there a Sunshine mini-kit ? On 7/14/2022 12:47 PM, Rich C via groups.io wrote:

Why do you think Proto 2000 did not do an IC paint scheme on their model? These cars look awfully close to the P2K 50 foot double door car. On

These cars had the Square 5/5 Dreadnaught Ends. Brad Hamner did a presentation on kitbashing this car on Hindsight 20/20 Zoom RPM a few years back. The doors were also slightly different. Rich

Video: Westward Extra 4133 A run-by with a nice assortment of steam and transition era freight cars on Brian Moore’s HO scale railroad in Plymouth, United

According to the car diagram in the IC 1954 freight car diagram book the cars were built by GATC in East Chicago IN in 1937 so the photo could be a delivery photo. 161501 - 161700 had auto

Yes. The 7’ is the issue. The Dan Hall 10 ft doors are Out of stock. http://www.southwestscale.com/Freight-Car-Details_c3.htm Brian J. Carlson -- Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY

That's a 5-6-5 Youngstown door yes? Dan Hall made a 6 foot 5-6-5 door (#614) that may work with some vertical splices and then resin molds and casting. Many prototype cars had

Tim When I was writing my book for the MPHS I’d included a photo of a Mopac freight house that the envelope was labeled “St Louis, Missouri”. I’d send the manuscript around to a few SMEs to

Definitely a 1937 photo as Bob says. Here's one of the cars IC 161748 in 1941, and it's quite weathered. On 7/14/2022 2:37 AM, nyc3001 . wrote: -- Tim

Wow you've got to love those large format black & white films that are so incredibly sharp. You can easily read the entire trust stencil. :-) On 7/14/2022 12:31 AM,

Jared I feel your pain. I have kept and refreshed my Windows XP system which is superior in every way for file management compared to any of the new Windows "buy

We are talking about the three panel 4-5-5 Youngstown doors here which both the 10' CNJ and the 10'-6" AAR cars have. It's been a while since I did this modification, so I was wrong in saying a rib

I have built InterMountain Santa Fe Refrigerator SFRD 32153 with help from from others on this list. I upgraded it with the usual such as wire grabs and unusual such as the ice hatch hooks to hold