Scott Pitzer wrote: Scott, If the load limit of a PM Gon is 126,000 pounds, then the gon's light weight would be 43,000 pounds for gons having "50-ton" trucks, or 84,000 pounds for gons having

I hope that Marty will add this information to his list of decal sets.ArmandPremo

Those are big spools -- say 6' ID and 8' OD x 4' wide. So you have 8 cubic feet of steel x the circumference of the spool (Pi * 7' avg) or roughly 22 x 8 = 176 cubic feet of steel (less air space

Jim, the SP marks for LA and LAG are not interchangeable, as the list implies. There was a scale at Taylor Yard, a couple of miles from LA General Shops (LAG symbol), and cars weighed there were

That makes sense, but then again someone might be using that flat car as a "stand-in" for a 70 ton car. But let's see... the Load Limit for the PM gon is about 126000 pounds, and I don't think one of

By the way, the car with the added dome platform, with railings, seems to have been weighed in 1960, not 1966 (according to my eyes) so it may fit into our time period-- barely. Scott Pitzer

In a message dated 11/30/2005 7:32:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, asmiller@... writes: I had forgotten about those Rich. I have been looking for them during my travels, but hadn't seen anything

Dennis, Thanks for the additions and corrections. I made them to the list and reloaded it as version 3.1. If others could check the list for their favorite(s) road and let me know of further

Inspired by Richard's article in RPMJ, I am building the North American tank car model combining the Tichy underframe with the InterMountain tank, but lengthening the underframe instead of shortening

Stations & Reweigh Symbols to the files section of the list. Here are a few more additions and correctionns to the SOO locations: FN is actually the shops in NORTH Fond du Lac, WI, about three

Why, thank you Andy! Just for that I promise not to make fun of your Belpaire boilered 2-8-4 Bowser rebuild for at least a week. :-) (just kidding) tim o Other than the

I agree about the wire grabs over plastic IF the model is to have individual grabs.

rich, that's true, but the SFRD reefers were rebuilds of 1920's reefers and could not be mistaken for a postwar steel reefer under any circumstances. if you want to know how many paint schemes can be

While we're on the subject of tank cars, has there been any progress on the tank cars that SC&F hopes to bring out in the (hopefully) near future? John Cagle showed me the brass etchings for one of

I would agree. But not all differences between types were visually apparent; there were also specification changes having to do with materials and manufacturing processes which photos don't

Just a note to let you know that I have uploaded a revised file of Stations & Reweigh Symbols to the files section of the list. The revision corrects a DT&I symbol, thanks to Mark Heiden. It also

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I had forgotten about those Rich. I have been looking for them during my travels, but hadn't seen anything from C&BT for some time. Wasn't the owner quite ill? I remember he had produced test

Andy: C&BT shops did a 40' SFRD reefer with a 6' plug door in 4 versions. Walthers still catalogues these but the availability is questionable at this point. Rich Orr

And as long as we're talking about WIBNIs (wouldn't it be nice if) ... I'd -much- rather have metal grabs and drop steps and have the model have small indents for locating the drilling I will do