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USAF Freight Cars

I've just loaded a builders' photo of a U.S. Air Force (USAFX) PS-1 box car. Yes, I know it's not a tank car but I'm still looking! I also have very similar photos of new PS-1 box cars lettered for

By Patrick Wider <pwider@...> · #50794 ·

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By STMFC@... · #50793 ·

Re: branded quality drill bits

Pat Wider wrote: True about plastic, but some of us actually drill brass and stuff, Pat. The carbon steel dulls a lot faster, whatever it's being drilled into; softens far easier if overheated

By Tony Thompson · #50792 ·

Re: branded quality drill bits

My better drill bits just have "HS" on their shanks allowing the designation to be placed on smaller sizes. (-: I'm curious, if a modeler just uses them to drill holes in soft plastic toy train

By Patrick Wider <pwider@...> · #50791 ·

Re: CNW and CB&Q boxcars to AC&Y

Bob CB&Q cars as follows 46425 class XA-10, originally built as XA-5 in 1913 by H&B, rebuilt at Aurora in 1926 95161 class XM-10 built 1904 by WSC&F 102772 class XM-11 built 1907 by Pullman 104516

By Rupert and Maureen <gamlenz@...> · #50790 ·

PRR Projects Group H21

Folks, The PRR Projects group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PRRPro/) will be starting our H21 project on February 14. With a wide range of models of the H21 available we expect participants from

By Bruce Smith · #50789 ·

CNW and CB&Q boxcars to AC&Y

Hi Guys! In 1945 the AC&Y purchased five foreign road boxcars, CNW 42186, CB&Q 104516, CB&Q 102772, CB&Q 95161 and CB&Q 46425. The CNW car had been wrecked on line while the CB&Q cars were received

By Bob Weston · #50788 ·

Will Whittaker

I just received this message from Arnold Menke. For those who don't know, Will was one of the pioneer photographers of rolling stock; and for those who didn't know him, one of the planet's

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #50787 ·

Re: Which tank cars?

<jimandlisa97225@v...> wrote: Jim, sorry to be so late to the party, but one of the oil terminals in Portland has a storage tank with a large Flying A logo still visible, although very faded. You can

By Jeff Helm <delta-p@...> · #50786 ·

Re: Which tank cars?

Upon further inspection, Ted Schenpf (dba Rails Unlimited, http://users.foxvalley.net/~railsunl/ ) only has the Milwaukee and Chicago & North Western guides for sale. I have an original UP. The

By jaley <jaley@...> · #50784 ·

Re: USG-A tank car in Mainline Modeler

SHPX, yes, several hundred cars. Frontenac, NO, NO, NO! Let's not let this error, understandable though it is, get into any further circulation than it already has. New cars built by AC&F were

By Richard Hendrickson · #50783 ·

Re: USG-A tank car in Mainline Modeler

Thanks for the link Pieter, Great looking loco, even if it isn't really a "Coast Guard" Loco. Peter J. McClosky ====== pieter_roos wrote: -- -- Peter J. McClosky Formerly of Los Angeles, CA Now

By Peter J. McClosky <pmcclosky@...> · #50785 ·

Re: USG-A tank car in Mainline Modeler

It does make you wonder why a chemical warfare base in Pine Bluff, Ark would want a wooden snowplough!!!! Cheers Barry Bennett in ORERs. the lots one freight listing

By Barry Bennett <Barrybennetttoo@...> · #50782 ·

Re: USG-A tank car in Mainline Modeler

Richard Hendrickson wrote: It seems to me that this explanation is too simple. That the Air Force owned cars does not appear to me to necessarily conflict with the use of existing reporting

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #50780 ·

Re: branded quality drill bits

I would second Andy Carlson's good comments about Hansen Drills. Pretty fine. Ditto Tony's excellent advice about avoiding carbon steel drills (whose half life is commonly less than one

By Denny Anspach <danspach@...> · #50779 ·

Re: USG-A tank car in Mainline Modeler

A picture of the locomotive (considerably later than this list, BTW) appears in the slide show on the highball Decals site: http://www.mgdecals.com/homepage.htm They also have some interesting

By Pieter Roos · #50781 ·

Re: Which tank cars?

The FYI: The UP Guide shows the following oil companies in Oregon: Standard Shell Continental Union Oil Co. Texas Co. General Petroleum Richfield Associated Fletcher Oil Co. Regards, -Jeff --

By jaley <jaley@...> · #50777 ·

Re: USG-A tank car in Mainline Modeler

Many entities, both public and private, owned railroad cars which never operated in interchange and never left their own properties. That the U. S. Air Force was one of them is not at issue. My

By Richard Hendrickson · #50778 ·

Re: USG-A tank car in Mainline Modeler

To the best of my knowledge, they were never listed in the ORERs, which means that they were never operated in interchange. Richard Hendrickson [Non-text portions of this message have been

By Richard Hendrickson · #50776 ·

Re: USG-A tank car in Mainline Modeler

I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that this discussion was limited to freight cars in interchange service. Except for the brief listing in the 1954 ORER of two USAFX flat car series totalling 18 cars I

By Gene Green <bierglaeser@...> · #50775 ·

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