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Re: Need help with Canadian Tank Cars

On 2022-07-14 8:20 p.m., Ian Cranstone wrote: There was a presentation on the BA tank car fleet at the recent Bytown Express NMRA/NFR Convention. The presentation, as well as the

By Michael Rozeboom · #193956 ·

Re: 7' wide 10' IH Youngstown door for CRP XM-4

Good idea Andy. To make the cut I lay down sharp edged 3M tape exactly horizontal and position a single edge razor blade... on a hard surface and thwhack! a single blow

By Tim O'Connor · #193955 ·

Re: Need help with Canadian Tank Cars

Darrall has found one of the pages on my website that clearly needs some updating, specifically the CGTX listing. I have much better information now on the BAOX fleet integration into CGTX, and know

By Ian Cranstone · #193954 ·

7' wide 10' IH Youngstown door for CRP XM-4

The most common of improved Youngstown steel doors was the 5/6/6, used in multible widths for nominal 10'6" height box cars. Two common versions of the YSD was as a 5/6/5 and not as well used, the

By Andy Carlson · #193953 ·

Re: Need help with Canadian Tank Cars

Darrall, Nice to see another Coutts/Sweetgrass modeller. My first real prototype-based layout was Shelby to Coutts ca. 1965. Have you looked at the traffic patterns through this interchange in your

By Brian Stokes · #193952 ·

Re: 7' wide 10' IH Youngstown door for CRP XM-4

Here's one in 1961 (!) on the M&StL I think. On 7/14/2022 3:54 PM, nyc3001 . wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

By Tim O'Connor · #193951 ·

Re: Need help with Canadian Tank Cars

While there aren't any of the series you are looking for, the Canadian Freight Car Gallery has a couple of CGTX car photos in some of the series you list:

By Marc Simpson · #193950 ·

Re: Need help with Canadian Tank Cars

Yes Tony...I model the BN, but I'm not on the wrong list as the cars were built in the 1940's which makes them appropriate for this list. Thanks, Darrall Swift, LaGrange Ohio Modeling the BN/MILW in

By bn2204 · #193949 ·

Re: 7' wide 10' IH Youngstown door for CRP XM-4

Best to check with Dan via email on inventory, as he has restocked but the Southwest Scale website is not updated. He may actually have those 6’ doors. -- Cheers Jeff Helm The Olympic Peninsula

By Jeff Helm · #193948 ·

Re: Need help with Canadian Tank Cars

If you model BN, you are on the wrong list. That’s a decade in the future for this list. Tony Thompson tony@...

By Tony Thompson · #193947 ·

Need help with Canadian Tank Cars

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

By bn2204 · #193946 ·

Re: Grab Iron On SFRD 7918

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

By Tom Madden · #193945 ·

Re: 7' wide 10' IH Youngstown door for CRP XM-4

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

By nyc3001 . · #193944 ·

Re: IC 161722 Chcago, 1940's

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

By Robert Heninger · #193943 ·

Grab Iron On SFRD 7918

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

By Bob Chaparro · #193942 ·

ADMIN: This is NOT the Windows Help group.

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

By Aley, Jeff A · #193941 ·

Re: maker of small drill bits (#78, #80) for hand drilling resin kits

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

By Fred Swanson · #193940 ·

Re: IC 161722 Chcago, 1940's

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:

By Tim O'Connor · #193939 ·

Re: IC 161722 Chcago, 1940's

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

By Tim O'Connor · #193938 ·

Re: IC 161722 Chcago, 1940's

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

By Rich C · #193937 ·

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