Mantua became TYCO. IIRC, the TYCO name was derived from the name of Mantua's owner. It became part of a large conglomerate and then spun off as Mantua again. Mantua's early cars were sheet metal with

I saw Walthers USRA hopper cars at a hobby shop this week. Surprise, surprise! They looked very familiar. They have Accurail parts except for the trucks (Walthers "Bettendorf"), couplers, coupler box

Welding before bottled gas. Doug Brown

Bill, When you drag the fill handle (lower right corner of cell), holding the shift or control keys changes how the cells are filled. After filling the cells the auto fill options box appears.

Although they may not open all the way, Kadee, Branchline, Front Range Products and others have found ways to have opening doors without "claws". Doug Brown

The gon under consideration is the old Mantua car. It was also part of the Mantua Tyco line but it did not make it into the Tyco Tyco trainset line...AFAIK they used a copy of the

Ben- The ex-Lindberg gon is the one in the Heavies Line by Mantua. Mantua aquired the ex-Linberg tooling and brought it out some years ago as the "Heavies" Line. They were plastic bodies with metal

Larry Jackman wrote: "Model Power bought Mantua tooling. I think Mantua also had the Tyco tooling. Check with Model Power." The only 40 ft gon currently shown on the Model Power website is not

Tom Holley wrote: "I need a large number of CG 9 and 11 panel gons; Sunshine makes a kit, but at $30.00 a pop I can't get many. At one point, TYCO made some suitable gons. Where can I find some? I

Model power bought Mantua tooling. I think Mantua also had the Tyco tooling. Check with Model Power Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@...\ You can't have everything. Where would you put

Spotted one error in my X28 article which is entirely my fault on page 31: Current: Class X28A can be distinguished from Class X29 by its taller height and six panels to the left of the door,

Help, guys. I need a large number of CG 9 and 11 panel gons; Sunshine makes a kit, but at $30.00 a pop I can't get many. At one point, TYCO made some suitable gons. Where can I find some? I rarely

Thank you very much for that very informative post - an example of why I think this is perhaps the best railroad newsgroup. Tom Cornillie www-personal.umich.edu/~tcornill/CGW_601.html I am not

Actually there were three groups of these cars: 25 74'5" cars were constructed by Canadian Car & Foundry in 10-11/1956 under lot 2141 at 570400-570424. 50 more were built in 4/1959 under lot 2257

Lehigh Valley used to run solid blocks of empty gons at the head of trains. There's a photo of one of these trains in the Summer '04 issue of "Locomotive Quarterly". There a couple of photos

UOCX lettering was, in fact, aluminum on black. Also true of a number of other tank car operators, though it's difficult (often impossible) to tell the difference in a B/W photo. Richard

Hi Paul, There are many scale and accurate cars available in O scale. Intermountain had box cars, a reefer, a tank, the USRA hopper and a USRA gon. Many dealers like my self, have both kits and RTR

Roger, Could well be : Pittsburgh, Ft.Wayne & Chicago RR. This was one of the lines incorproated into Pennsylvania Lines [ west of Pitts.]. Then into the PRR. Try the PRRlines west website,

Bill, Try keystone crossings for a link to Bill Lanes photo collection of builder's photos, this may have what you seek. Fred Freitas

Tom Cornillie, "rrhistorian," wrote: Just a hair past the purview of this list, Tom. I thought there were just a few as prototypes at that era, but this does creep onto the present