gary laakso wrote: Utah coal traveled that route in DRGW gons for many years. The cars you mention may be in coke service as coke is a lot lighter than coal. Dave Nelson

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard, Richard. Better cut back on the coffee <g>. Who said anything about running it on the layout? It's such a neat end, it will make a nice addition to my display

All: First off, sorry if this has been covered in the past, I have been away from this list for several months and searching the archive turned up nothing... Anyhow, my friend James Bilbrey was nice

Denny; Depending on the type of retainer valve you need, most of the Westerfield kits include extras. Since I have a large number of Al's kits, both built and not, I've not found it necessary to buy

Denny's experience with loosing retainer valves reminds me of the time I tried to assemble Walthers sprung trucks (the ones made of plastic) in a Holiday Inn outside of Cleveland (early '80s?). I

Come on, Thompson, get real. The SP had ONE B-50-4 with a Van Dorn end which was almost certainly retired before or during World War II and you want to model it to run on your layout? Not, of

One of the most interesting uses of reverse Murphy ends was on RDG hoppers with 9 ribs. (John LaRue has a good photo of one of these). I don't know if this was original or a replacement. There was

Geared hand brakes. In the only two photos I have where the brake wheel is visible, one appears to be an early Equipco and the other an Ajax. Richard Hendrickson

Al Westerfield wrote: If you do the B-50-4 version, Al, I'll buy one. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Though doubtless well meant, that's a counsel of perfection if I ever saw one. Your advice is fine if your local hobby shop happens to be Des Plaines, Caboose Hobbies, or The Whistle Stop. However,

David Ball said: Once introduced, it would have been painted on any reweighed car, AFAIK. Don't think of it as part of a "paint scheme," think of it as a "feature." Tony Thompson

Brian; I don't have the 4/87 issue of MRG, so don't know which series of car you are looking at, but the Summer 1992 issue of Northwestern Lines has several photos of various cars. From what I can

We will be at both the Naperville RPM and Howard Zane's Orlando show the following week. If anyone wants us to bring a specific older kit, let me know by the 19th. We will be launching 1921 NYC

Fred - I've been working on a project to do a number of cars with Van Dorn ends. They were used on at least 4 different cars circa 1912 but only one road used them in any quantity - an IC 1-1/2 door

My post, I now realize, was ambiguous. I meant to say that none of the cars shown with inverse corrugated ends in the 1919 and 1922 CBCycs were built after ca. 1918. No argument that some cars were

List, Have the unusual Van Dorn patent car ends ever been made available in HO? The ends are the ones that resemble a bullseye target. Also, when were these last seen in service? Thanks to

Thanks Tony I wasn't looking for any great precision, just to figure out the reasonable probability of them showing up, at what levels "Many" of a fleet the size of the R-40-10's is good enough

Should have been off list... sorry. Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 645 Tanner Marsh Road, Guilford, CT 06437 info@... www.speedwitch.com (650) 787-1912

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When I last had a message from Keith a few months back, he indicated that he would not be coming to Naperville (which I frankly found quite disappointing given his great collection of steam era