Was there ever a Mather gondola, or a Mather tank car? <G> Scott Pitzer ======= L-L hasn't given up on P2K and in fact there are some new freight cars in the works, though that's all I can tell

The car number for the NSS gon in the 1943 CBC is 1200. 40' 50-ton car. It also has the tabs you mentioned at the bolster sides. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Very nice. Thanks for posting that, John. Pete _____________________________________________________ Pete Brown - Gambrills, MD (Near Annapolis) Visit my personal site :

Jim Betz wrote: Sure. Just check carefully first to find out what height the milled-off portion needs to be from the rail so your new coupler will work right. Tony Thompson Editor,

Jim, your description of the coupler itself is a Kadee No 4. Properly housed in a proper pocket, it is, IMHO, a much better coupler than a No 5, or 58. However, you don't seem to have the pocket it

The "coupler box" is made for the original Mantua loop coupler. It was suspended from the end sill rect. hole and the screw holding the loop and hook. The slope in the underframe was to allow the hook

For all who were interested, I have posted the diagram on my web site that shows the modifications I made to a scale Kadee gearbox for using a Servent Engineering coupler in it. You can see the

by says this First, what is the number series of the car? (5000s?) My ORER checks only no 3' IH cars, that would match the IH of the BLE car. Also remember that NSS built cars (capacity of 2-3 a

... as in this -model- might have been around when steam was still running ... *W* I have a really old, all metal, Mantua flat car that actually has pretty fair detail and well done paint

Garrett and all the Newburgh and South Shore cars is listed as built by Magor Car Company. Was the NSS a USS road? Since the ORER entry says this is a 40' car maybe my original premise is back in

No need to panic, Jerry. L-L hasn't given up on P2K and in fact there are some new freight cars in the works, though that's all I can tell you at this point. But we're probably not going to see many

List, For those of you into turn-of-the-century freight cars, and you have some spare change laying around: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetailsPL?bi=434808640 Actually, if you model this

Proto 2000 as There is they of this? Going to their site and clicking on the PROTO button shows the full line for me, and I just got a Proto 2000 catalog from Germany (in German) last

Hi Garth, I had forgotten about the Georgia Railroad USRA rebuilds. Oddly enough, I downloaded a scan of GA 19500, circa 1957; it was a sldie available for sale on Ebay last week or so. I

And out of this groups range. Doug Brown

While looking through some information this past weekend It was noted that the C of G vent car roster outnumbered all other Southeastern roads fleets except SAL in 1948. There's a definite interest in

The earliest photos I have seen are from circa 1947-48 w/this roof. I don't if any drawing exist, but I think there are enough photos of these would provide enough info. to get the roof correct for

Garth Groff wrote: I seriously doubt that it was gray in revenue service. I know of no data confirming such, though there WERE three B-50-24 (Overnight type) box cars in TWO-TONE gray for

Art, In addition to the D&M cars mentioned by Mark, some Georgia Railroad cars were painted gray, or grey with black ends and roofs, including USRA rebuilds (as offered by Tichy). You can find a

Phil, You could always make a diorama of one of the car manufactuing facilities Richard mentioned below and paint gray to your heart's content. As they say, there's a prototype for everything.....