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Re: Moloco Diagonal Panel Roof

Just to pick a tiny nit, Standard Railway Equipment did not start calling itself "Stanray" until after 1960, the nominal cut-off date for this list. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #39479 ·

Re: nice pics

Todd Horton wrote: the string of boxcars? Todd, I enlarged the image on a large monitor at work and my best guess is those are B&O hoppers. The date of 1941 would agree with the lettering

By rwitt_2000 <rmwitt@...> · #39478 ·

Re: nice pics

The stone loads or the dust? I've got enough dust in my basement as it is! ;0 Phil Buchwald wrote:

By buchwaldfam <duff@...> · #39477 ·

Re: nice pics

What kind of equipment did they use to pile the stone that high? I don't see any crane anywhere near in that photo. Regards, PHil

By buchwaldfam <duff@...> · #39476 ·

Re: I/M FGEX Reefer

I was somewhat surprized that RMJ elected to run this article before IM issues the kit, and I have not seen my article in print yet. The HO model will more or less be the same they have issued in

By lnbill <bwelch@...> · #39475 ·

Thanks for the Feedback on TKM

To all that responded; Thank you very much, once again, for all your valuable feedback on "The Keystone Modeler". Some of your ideas were things that we have been batting around, and others were

By Gatwood, Elden <Elden.Gatwood@...> · #39474 ·

Re: nice pics

Nice "slope sheet only" loading shown too! Just like the loading diagrams. Did the gravel in hoppers stay that way in transit or settle down into the car? I have seen a video of a set of PRR GR

By Michael Aufderheide · #39472 ·

Re: nice pics

And it looks like an N&W hopper just across the river... Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" -

By Bruce Smith <smithbf@...> · #39471 ·

Re: nice pics

Todd Horton asked: "Can anyone make out whose hopper cars are being loaded just behind the string of boxcars?" http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02405.jpg Baltimore & Ohio.

By benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> · #39470 ·

Re: Intermountain NP Reefers(NOW PFE REEFERS)

Tom, Same question. Are all the PFE reefers going to be RTR, or can we get kits? Paul Lyons Laguna Niguel. CA

By Paul Lyons · #39481 ·

Re: Moloco Diagonal Panel Roof (with overhanging eaves)

Guys; I understood from others that there was, in real life, an early OH diag panel roof, and a later one (as modeled by Moloco). Is this the case? What date(s) does the Moloco roof

By Gatwood, Elden <Elden.Gatwood@...> · #39469 ·

Re: nice pics

Can anyone make out who's hopper cars are being loaded just behind the string of boxcars? Todd Horton

By centga@... · #39468 ·

Re: "Reciprocal" Switching - Please Explain

In practical terms wasn't it essentially limited to deliveries only? In the Emeryville case cited earlier, what inducement would SP have for timely pickup and transfer to the WP for an outbound

By Dave Nelson <muskoka@...> · #39473 ·

Re: "Reciprocal" Switching - Please Explain

The arrangement for the NF&G between the C&O and NYC was on a 6 month basis, at least until 1950. Hence the C&O operated the line and all customers for 6 months and the NYC operated and served

By Kathe Robin <kathe@...> · #39467 ·

Re: Red CABOOSE "NYC 40 ft Sheathed Boxcar (X-29)"

Terry Link wrote: "One published photo appears in New York Central's Later Power by Staufer and May. Page 41 - car coupled to the front of the locomotive. Has the three panel door similar to the

By benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> · #39466 ·

Re: LNE 1923 ARA Box

Thanks Ted -- do you know about when the cars received diagonal panel roofs? --- Ted Culotta <tculotta@...> wrote: __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business

By Robert Daniels · #39465 ·

ARM NP Reefers

IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE To the group, the posting that we are doing NP reefers is incorrect. Tom was just a bit off. We did some a few years back, but we have no intentions at the present time

By asychis@... · #39484 ·

Re: LNE 1923 ARA Box

First group (8001-8200) used unpowered staff-type hand brakes. The second group (8201-8500) used Ajax hand brakes with the early hand wheel (use the parts from Intermountain) and the last group I

By Ted Culotta <tculotta@...> · #39464 ·

Re: Red CABOOSE "NYC 40 ft Sheathed Boxcar (X-29)"

By CASO <caso@...> · #39463 ·

Re: Coal Traffic to South -West Wisconsin

Richard White wrote: Richard, According to the ICC's 1950 "Annual Report of the Statistics of Railways in the US," there were about 10 million tons of "Products of Mining" terminating in the state

By Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...> · #39462 ·

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