Guys: If you put the link in <www . linkhere. .com> (without the extra spaces, which must be included here to keep the link from becoming a real link by default!) format, the inclusion of the < and >

You have to include the "l" that ended up on the next line. Doug Brown

I see that flour and wheat are different contents. Could an "X-G" box be for grain and an "X-F" car be for flour? Is there a significant difference in the quality of car required for flour and

Denny and group: Back about 1960 several of us around here had the Athearn Timken cars. We all figured out that we needed roller bearing trucks with the caps on the journals. It seems like the

Steve, You are losing the "l" on the end. It was word-wrapped to the next line. This happens often to long URLs sent in an email. The trick I have always used is to create a reply to the email.

Denny and friends, There actually were cars which carried the Timken "Roller Frieght" herald. WP 19537 was a 40' PS-1 boxcar with a 7' door which was repainted into the famous "Giant Orange Feather"

Got my Rock Island ones just now. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

bearing trucks! Menzies apparently continued to produce version #1 above later, and he may have included RB trucks. I do not know.< I 'think' Athearn at one time made the RB trucks, I have four

Reportedly, Irving Athearn admitted later that he had no idea whatsoever whether or not the Timken freight car was at the Railroad Fair, and (by implication) he in fact had no idea what the car

Steve Sandifer wrote: Steve, I see you what you mean by the XG, XF, etc.. By best guess (& perhaps yours, too) is that the abbreviations in the Contents column stand for the sundry grades of

In the early';50s, Athearn produced three 40' stamped steel models of this car, each with a distinctive paint scheme: 1) Red with while center band, # 37250, -2, -3, -4, -7. There were several

Could you repost this link, I just get the old "Can't Find" each time I try to access the address! Steve Fuchs rockroll50401 <cepropst@...>

Athearn made three versions of the Timken Roller Bearing boxcars in red, blue, and yellow sides. The paint schemes followed the artwork shown in Timken's magazine advertising. To my knowledge, no

The last I heard, these were all fanciful schemes. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

In a message dated 3/28/2005 11:04:58 A.M. Central Standard Time, vyoung5622@... writes: _http://www.steamfreightcars.com/modeling/models/propst/urtx4613main.html_

Tom, There was also a plastic version of these cars. The one I had was from Lionel, and IIRC had a tiny script "L" to the right of the doors (which I shamelessly removed!). The basic paint was

In the 1950's.Athearn produced both red and yellow-side Timken Roller Bearing metal car kits in HO and O scale. In 1952 I bought an HO red-side kit. Now I'm in O scale and have have acquired the O

Scott, You are right about loading over the trucks. This is what the D&RGW and WP did with their rather significant traffic in coiled steel. For the whole story and some photos try:

Having been a control chemist in a flour mill, to me "shorts" means the left overs of the flour mill run of ground wheat . It was called red dog by the mill people because of it's reddish color. It

In a message dated 3/28/2005 10:52:35 A.M. Central Standard Time, fuchst900@... writes: Could you repost this link, I just get the old "Can't Find" each time I try to access the address!