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Re: Empty:Loaded Car-Miles for Hoppers

OK, I have to ask. How can a hopper run more loaded then empty? It is either full or MTY. Like a light- on or off. So does this mean someone doesn't MTY it and run it around loaded across US?? You

By Terry Harrison <nkpman@...> · #23942 ·

Union Pacific Freight Cars 1936-51 book

Hello all, I've just found the wonderful Terry Metcalfe's book on e-bay: http://makeashorterlink.com/?D4F823EF5 For those who haven't got it, happy bidding :-) Best regards Michel Guilloux

By mgaqw · #23939 ·

Re: AAR hoppers (was Sunshine hopper minikit)

Ed, I am hopeful. Athearn lately has been cranking out modern stuff, and a lot of it is very good. Recently they announced Johnstown Coalporter (not Cole Porter) gondolas. I only mention it because

By Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> · #23941 ·

Re: AB brake details

Byron Rose sells a fine set of AB brake parts and other very interesting tidbits on a resin "sheet". I think they were cast for him by Al Westerfield. Why do you guys have problems with resin parts?

By Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> · #23940 ·

Empty:Loaded Car-Miles for Hoppers

In a message dated 9/23/03 11:25:08 PM, HAWK0621@... writes: << And hoppers were probably empty more often than they were loaded. >> Actually, open-top hoppers, like most cars, tended to run

By CBarkan@... · #23938 ·

Re: Harvesting rivets

Was that the one where he said he puts the x-acto blade on his tongue? Eeeeesh! (Oh well, I guess some paper envelope edges are almost as sharp!) Scott Pitzer It has been covered in Mainline Modeler

By Scott Pitzer · #23937 ·

Re: Sunshine hopper minikit; was Re: Atlas 2-bay Offset Hopper

I thought someone said that with the Sunshine overlay you still don't end up with the correct upper corners of the side (or something like that.) At that point I put the idea on my far back burner

By Scott Pitzer · #23934 ·

Harvesting rivets

I don't have experience doing this either, but intend to do it, and have read about it - It has been covered in Mainline Modeler a number of times by Bob Hundman. As I recall it, he simply shaves off

By Rob Kirkham <rdkirkham@...> · #23933 ·

AB brake details, was Re: Question on Sunshine B&O boxcar with "mansard" roof

<<They most definitely are. They come from Bowser and are marketed in the Cal Scale line. The part number is 190-283. http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/190-283 I, too, have trouble with the

By C J Wyatt · #23930 ·

Re: AB brake details, was Re: Question on Sunshine B&O boxcar with "mansard" roof

Jack Wyatt ponders: Check 'em against a Cyc drawing. There's brake stuff in most editions. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

By thompson@... · #23932 ·

Re: Sunshine hopper minikit; was Re: Atlas 2-bay Offset Hopper

Curt, Martin sells a mini-kit that consists of a complete, very thin resin side overlay for the Atlas hopper. You shave off and sand down the sides of the Atlas car and apply the overlay. He sells it

By Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> · #23931 ·

Re: Harvesting rivets

I have no experience with this to offer except to point out that Frank Hodina will be covering this in his talk on producing resin kit masters at Naperville. Bill Darnaby

By Bill Darnaby · #23929 ·

Sunshine hopper minikit; was Re: Atlas 2-bay Offset Hopper

Okay, what ad did I miss? What mini-kit? IIRC, the alternate needs a whole new side, not just changing the gussets. Curt Fortenberry

By Curt Fortenberry <arrphoto@...> · #23928 ·

Re: NYC box car (was wreck scene)

Jeff English wrote: OK, but the P2K doesn't have the "double-z" eave, does it? All the 1941-built NYC 50-foot box cars had this unusual feature. I'm not aware of this appearing on any other

By Benjamin Frank Hom <b.hom@...> · #23926 ·

Re: NYC box car (was wreck scene)

wrote: OK, but the P2K doesn't have the "double-z" eave, does it? All the 1941-built NYC 50-foot box cars had this unsuual feature. I'm not aware of this appearing on any other cars. Jeff

By Jeff English · #23925 ·

Re: Harvesting rivets

Note that Grandt Line and Tichy both sell sprues of rivets although some of them will be too large for HO. Jack Burgess www.YosemiteValleyRR.com

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #23927 ·

Re: Sunshine hopper minikit; was Re: Atlas 2-bay Offset Hopper

Tim, All listed except IC are correct. Add to the list ATSF, BAR, CRR, L&A, L&M, M& StL, and P&S (ex-Erie). I've heard through the grapevine that Frank Hodina is working on a set of masters for the

By HAWK0621@... · #23936 ·

Re: Harvesting rivets

I saw that Hundman article that showed the technique, I think it was a scratch built CB&Q stockcar. I tried doing it a few times as well. I suggest working over a white background to help find

By tyesac@... · #23935 ·

Harvesting rivets

Could someone outline the techniques for harvesting and applying rivets from scrap freight car bodies? TIA Glenn Joppich Redford, MI

By Glenn Joppich <gjopp@...> · #23924 ·

Re: P2K 50' End-Door Boxcars

Shawn Beckert asks: Yes, correct for the cars as built in the early to mid-1940s. For later repaint, you're on your own. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

By Richard Hendrickson · #23923 ·

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