Fred Freitas wrote: Wheeling Steel had a 69 acre site in Benwood in 1954. That site had a blast furnace with an annual capacity of 246,000 tons of pig iron; a continuous skelp mill (336,000 NT ann

Were express and milk trains frequently combined? There's a picture on an Erie train in the current "Locomotive Quarterly" which shows a long express train, definitely with baggage cars up front,

Fred Freitas asked: "Modeling 1953 in the area of Steubenville, OH. I have noted N&W and VGN coal hoppers moving on the PRR in the late 50's. Being that I'm using 1953, would the car consists be

Modeling 1953 in the area of Steubenville, Oh. I have noted N&W and VGN coal hoppers moving on the PRR in the late 50's. Being that I'm using 1953, would the car consists be about the same, or minus

Manfred is correct that the car being referred to is the same as eBay #5991463849. That the sides were silk screened explains a lot. The basswood sides of the car that I have seem to be faced with a

A General Arrangement Dwg is available for these cars on the CP SIG web site in the Documents Library. http://www.cpsig.ca/data/Other_Railways/H-272.pdf Hope this helps. Russ Pinchbeck

Is that the car listed on ebay under #5991463849 ? Manfred

Ambroid's GN wood express reefer had silk screened sides. Later, Northeastern sold the kit with decals. Doug Brown

Gary, This is a N&W Class BPa which has had roof hatches added and renumbered in series 70460-70499. The hatches were added at Roanoke Shops in 1951 for "Viscose." American Viscose had a plant in

There is a picture of the end of this car on page 46 of the N&W Vol1 in Color. It has ends that are like a PRR X29 and four hatches on the roof that appear to open with the hinges on the car sides,

Charles, you can't send them to the list have to post them to the files section. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Bruce I sent you some pictures of the Ga-45 and 52 class covered hoppers including roof shots of the Ga-52. I tried to send it to the list but I guess it was too large. Let me know if you recieved

Both arrangements were common. When in doubt, consult photos. Richard Hendrickson

Yes, that's one of the MILW cars after being steel sheathed and renumbered. Richard Hendrickson

I took a look around on Geo. Elwood's site and found the following Jim Sands photo from 1966: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/milw/milw72438ajs.jpg Same bracing config., though rebuilt with steel

--- In STMFC@..., Denny Anspach <danspach@m...> wrote: The really-unusual Unicel kit has always intrigued me (I have a *beautifully-built* mostly-completed model left to me in a bequest

Ed Hawkins wrote Pecos River Brass imported a Ga-45 model and it has the smaller hatches (which open towards the ends) and IIRC lacked the latch bars that are modeled on later GA/ACF hoppers. The

There's a photo of Ga-45 #182009 in the Nov/Dec, 1983 Model RailroadING, on page 48. You can clearly see the two poke holes, however the photo is not close enough to see any detail of these. But the

Hello everyone, I have a question about the air line plumbing for one-piece K brakes. Many photos seem to show the air line that runs between the air tank and the train line as running across the

CLG writes- two of them and scrapped them within a few >years. I'm not aware that any other roads bought them - does anyone know? I believe that you are correct. Thank you for reminding me of the