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Re: Gondolas and the Steel Industry (was Flat Cars as per the 4/1949 ORER)

Tim; I am in a similar situation, and thinking that maybe Charlie is referring to a specific mill/stretch of railroad in his modeling. At USS' mills in Pgh, I have been told that they required 40% of

By Gatwood, Elden <Elden.Gatwood@...> · #43353 ·

Re: Riveted PS-1 box cars

Hello Mr. Buchwald, The PS-1 box car in your photo is a 40 foot car from UP series 100000-101599, PS lot 5908, 1600 cars built in 1948 without the rectangles at the peak next to the hand wheel

By SamClarke · #43351 ·

Re: lumber loads

Rob, You never mentioned what type of strip wood you will be using. It will make a difference say if you are working with Balsa, Basswood, Spruce or what. I would consider a solven based

By Greg Martin · #43350 ·

Re: lumber loads

For the cutting, how about a dremel cutoff wheel? Cut the wood with a dremel just like you were cutting it with a mill saw blade. Haven't tried this myself but it is a thought... Jim Scott Lompoc,

By Jim Scott · #43349 ·

Re: Wood Swift Reefers

Ted Culotta wrote: This was a Richard Hendrickson discovery, which I exploited to get the identical result: the moment the razor saw touched the body of the car, there was an audible gasp.

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #43348 ·

Re: Riveted PS-1 box cars

Phil, It takes a true railfan to stare at a picture of a oddity like that and even notice that there is a boxcar in the background; let alone count the rivets! regards, Andy Miller

By Miller,Andrew S. <asmiller@...> · #43347 ·

Riveted PS-1 box cars

I've received some good info in the past from this group about the riveted PS-1s that the IC built in their own shops. Also have tried to gather more info about other roads which owned this

By buchwaldfam <duff@...> · #43346 ·

Re: New England Rail Service

Eric Hansmann wrote: Don posted a couple of messages this morning to the MilkTrains' Yahoo Group. Tim Gilbert

By Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...> · #43345 ·

Re: New England Rail Service

His wife is from Russia and he spends time over there also. thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@... Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens

By ljack70117@... · #43343 ·

New England Rail Service

Has anyone heard from Don Valentine at New England Rail Service. I've noted a "This site is temporarily unavailable" message at their website for the last couple of months. The address I have been

By Eric Hansmann <ehansmann@...> · #43342 ·

Re: Freight car photos

Bill McCoy wrote: there ============================================== I did a quick check on the NMRA site and did not see any mention of this book. Here's the Kalmback Library pubilcations

By Eric Hansmann <ehansmann@...> · #43341 ·

lumber loads

I'm putting some lumber loads together for flat car models and am about to start cutting strip wood. Of course I'll make the piles hollow, and insert real weight inside the cavity. But I am

By Rob Kirkham <rdkirkham@...> · #43344 ·

Retail coal

It always seemed to me to be strange that so many coal dealers were located in even small towns. Talking to Howard Faley, (hired out on the ICRR in the late 1940's) he told me that almost all coal in

By John Swanson <dwlscbq@...> · #43340 ·

Steps for PFE reefers

Hi gang: I've got a Sunshine Models PFE R-30/40-24 reefer kit assembled, and in service for some time. The wide steps under the doors as supplied by Sunshine are resin, and fragile. No good for

By Ian Wilson · #43339 ·

Re: Wood Swift Reefers

Ah yes.I just discovered my yet to be completed Swift reefer kit bash in my "junk box".I am afraid that model will never get trucks or couplers.Armand premo

By armprem · #43337 ·

Re: Wood Swift Reefers

Ah, "analysis-paralysis", eh? I knew I had a problem but I didn't know it had a name. Are there any self-help groups? Gene Green <snip> I think one of the biggest impediments to modeling (as

By bierglaeser <bierglaeser@...> · #43338 ·

Re: Wood Swift Reefers

during the Like car", Although I'm sure that issue is out of print, I believe the article was republished in a Kalmbach book on modeling freight cars a few years ago. Same book inlcudes Andy

By cvsne <mjmcguirk@...> · #43335 ·

Re: Wood Swift Reefers

"Life Like - Hong Kong". I didn't know that we were doing plastic "China" things back that far, except for Oriental brass engines & cars?? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A lot of

By cvsne <mjmcguirk@...> · #43334 ·

Meat reefers (was: Wood Swift Reefers)

Ben Hom replied: . . . Better kits for meat reefers are available from Sunshine and Funaro,. . . ----------- Red caboose also makes a wood sheathed Mather meat reefer, and the Walthers' horizontal

By Miller,Andrew S. <asmiller@...> · #43333 ·

Re: Canadian open hoppers in USA - Originated or Received? - Cape Breton Coal

Tim, My mistake, thought the thread was working into Ontario Province. Fred F

By Fred in Vt. <pennsy@...> · #43332 ·

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