Yo Al, Is there any chance that you could scan a photo of these 1925 roller-bearing trucks and send it or post it to pictures? (Without the problem of another copyright infringement thread?) Also,

I'm just a chem major Tony, in other fields I'm lucky if my subjects & verbs agree never mind correct usage of tecknickle terms. :-) Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla. P.S. Oh, and right after hitting

I just wonder if there is a statistic available about the percentage of US freight cars that had roller-journals and solid or friction journals in 1960. Because, as a kid in the 50's & 60's I spent a

Tim O'Connor writes about the Springfield show: As a matter of fact, my messages of August 25 indicate rather clearly that subjects other than those included in the group's rules are out of scope. The

This has been quite a lengthy thread and this may have been covered earlier. Anyway one reason for the railroads NOT to invest in roller bearing trucks was that the cars spent a lot of time off line

I understood that the Milwaukee was one of the first railroads to place roller bearings on its heavy weight passenger cars. Does anyone know if the use of roller bearings included express reefers on

Al Brown wrote: Tsk, tsk. Still using the term <g>. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510)

Bill we can't discuss it any further. You can talk about Cocoa Beach, hotels, and bars, and even warm Florida weather, but please don't say anything about ... you know what.

In his Wheeling & Lake Erie book (p 59), John Corns shows three early applications of roller bearings. In 1925, roller bearing arch bar trucks were applied to a boxcar (one of those bizarre W&LE

Bill, There is an airport not far from springfield with bus service direct. Fred F

Tony, Thanks for the info, now I can sit down with my confused friend, and hopefully get him through his Mopac withdrawl symtoms. Fred F

Here is the link to the page for the show on the Amherst Railway Society web site. They organize the show. It's Jan. 28-29 this year. http://www.amherstrail.org/show/show.htm And if you want to

Does anyone know how to contact Thornton Waite, where he lives, etc.? Thank you. Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 645 Tanner Marsh Road, Guilford, CT

I'm sold. It's a great show. When is it? Does it conflict with Cocoa Beach? Bill McCoy Jax mean to imply many regional displays are 8/24/05 > >

Paul Hillman wrote: "Something happened in later years for the ultimate conversion to roller-journals, probably a significant reduction in costs in applying them to 100's of thousands of

Bill Dixon wrote: Baloney. The steels used after the war for bearings are the same as in the 1920s. And the locomotives and cars which did receive roller bearings in the 1930s performed just

No, nor does the ORER normally list Z braces. It would probably say "all steel" instead of "steel frame" or "steel underframe." Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

Except for their catastrophic failure mode roller bearings are better than friction bearings. Friction bearings advertise their pending failure for a long time. As friction bearings heat up they emit

Amen to that! Real brakemen don't use magnets! They make the cut!

Though N Scale, It appears to that the first commercial Resin Boxcar is being released. GHQ, a maker of very well done N scale items, has announced production of NP 40' DS Fish Belly underframed