Tim wrote: But did this have any noticeable effect on how much such routings happened ? (and if a car made an internal Canada-only transit between entering and leaving the country, how exactly did

Does anybody know what a Viloco brake step looked like? Thank you. Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 100 14th Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94402 info@... www.speedwitch.com (650) 787-1912

Maybe Trix will dump their recently released US prototype freight cars at fire sale prices somewhere down the road. Ertl did this and they had much nicer cars. Now I see P2K assembled cars being

All, Is there anyone who is attending Prototype Rails 2005 (in Cocoa Beach) that can bring an LCD projector for us to use? [An LCD projector is one that plugs into a computer and projects the

May I direct your attention to box car table.jpg, subtitled M&StL '37 AAR box car paint in the files section of this list which states that 300 cars in the 53000 series had Apex running boards and

From several off-list posts to me re: fitting proper axle lengths into trucks, it has been pointed out to me that there is a common presumption that minimum axle end play means maximum

Robert, The list of stations and the businesses served would really interest me. Let me know how much I owe you. I hope the price is not too high. Tom ________________________________ Sent:

Schuyler Larrabee asked: "OK, I'm enjoying the first day of 2005 assembling one of the new IM 1937 AAR 40' box cars, Green scheme . . . Nice kit, nicely decorated. I have a question: It's supplied

Patrick, The PRR's Elmira Branch line is well documented in Bill Caloroso's book on the Elmira Branch. The signature load of the Elmira Branch was coal for transshipment at Sodus Point, although many

Hello, I need your advice, I am drawn into an unravelling what resources are accessible from UK. My NMRA BR colleague is planning a club layout based on the Finger Lakes region of NY in the 1950s. He

Not your time frame, but I bet not too may things changed until 1945: From 1921 NYC shippers guide: To quote from the guide: Geneva: Geneva is a manufacturing center of considerable importance,

I don't know if this is the book Bill was referring to, but I found two copies listed for sale on the internet. Here is the listing for one of them, the other was at Half.com. Chris Jeremy F.

If you get into the Specifications for Freight Cars (also Passenger Cars, or Steam Locomotives) you will find that they are pretty quirkey. Like specifying different brands of paint for half of an

Gene, On numerous occasions in his articles and on this list, Richard has addressed various AC&F-built cars that made their way to the GATX fleet. There were a total of 14 cars built by AC&F from 1936

Added info: reweigh: MPLS 2-54

OK, I'm enjoying the first day of 2005 assembling one of the new IM 1937 AAR 40' box cars, Green scheme . . . Nice kit, nicely decorated. I have a question: It's supplied with a "wood" roof walk.

I'd like to see this car done like the InterMountain GS gon, with the side material separate from the frame. I want to do one of these cars as a TOFC flat, which several were converted for. -- Brian

as a follow-on project to their 6K gal. ICC-105s< I was hoping that maybe LL was thinking about it. I'm not sure why we thought that more would happen with Marklin/Trix they are after all mainly

Does anyone know what the main industries were in the Finger Lakes area of New York State in the period 1945 - 1955 I am in the process of planning a new club HO American and want to make sure that

--- In STMFC@..., Denny Anspach <danspach@m...> wrote: ... > There is a cautionary issue with the Tool: While > it may well clean up the shape of the cone, in > the process it may well