Ahem, the correct term is: "Push Pole Pocket". Pat Wider

Schuyler Have you tried using the Kadee #12 coupler? As of a couple of weeks ago Kadee has been selling the #58 couplers in a pack of 20 pair along with the flat centering springs. I've been

Jared, I have been following this thread and you have given my pro/con should I/shouldn't I convert thoughts a good kick. I am in the beginning of construction of the outer end of the Burlingame,

Brian J Carlson wrote: So had I asked "For what car does the AAR Mechanical Designation YM signify?" you'd have answered right away w/o looking at an ORER? Dave Nelson

I can not see the sky here in Florida. Is there a full moon? wow thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@... Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens

wrote: many &* couplers Okay Richard, you're a Chevrolet man. Some of us prefer Fords. Jared Harper Athens, GA >

--- In STMFC@..., "Thomas M. Olsen" <tmolsen@U...> wrote: The big bugaboo > will be the ability to reach the cars and accurately get the wand into > position to uncouple the cars, or to

--- In STMFC@..., "Thomas M. Olsen" <tmolsen@U...> wrote: The big bugaboo > will be the ability to reach the cars and accurately get the wand into > position to uncouple the cars, or to

why would the last one be a stumper the pennsy had a few poling cars. I do not think they were in use in the 50's though. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Spoken from the UP management booklet on how to treat loyal customers. Screw 'em, life's tough then you die. Well put. It will be a lesson I remember as I deal with it from here on out. Bob

This is good stuff, Dave. SGL

Gene, I'd suggest posting a ~1950 listing to the files area would be a public service . . . SGL

HO, Pat, and my club's got VERY good track work, laid almost exclusively by one man who's got Very High Standards. But even on very good trackwork there are occasional joints that don't

Pat Wider writes- Hmm-m. Wow! Have we been reading the same material? I am unaware that we are disagreeing on about anything. I will give you high marks for thinking about depleted uranium,

Polling or poling? If you know what a poling car is, then you know what them there poling pockets are for. Gene Green good <snip>

In light of the information available at http://www.nakina.net/aartype.html my offer is withdrawn. Gene Green was would

That's correct. Manifold variations on "Freight car types" didn't do the trick. Thanks. SGL

I have a number of ORERs between 1923 and 1960 (actually as late as 1994 but I can't say that here) and would be happy to scan and send the list of freight and/or passenger car M.C.B.

Thanks, Michael. SGL

At the risk of going slightly off subject, D&G makes HO-scale passenger car trucks such that their springs actually compress and the trucks actually equalize. And in case there's still any lingering