I am not positive, but it looks like the same truck used for the GS gons, a Barber S-2. If that is the case, Branchline makes a nice replacement. Tim O'Connor

Dennis Storzek wrote: I noticed that also. I just recently looked at photos of a prototype truck and one of the views illustrated how the journals are almost centered on the frame casting so as much

... Which is again overly wide. Look at the end view photos; the truck is almost as wide as the car body, and looks like it is falling off the axles, Sigh. Dennis Storzek

Ted Culotta wrote: Looks like there maybe some other interesting parts [e.g. brake staff, coupler-pin lift lever, and maybe others]. I hope Red Caboose will offer the parts separately. Bob

Looks like a new truck, too. Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 645 Tanner Marsh Road, Guilford, CT 06437 info@... www.speedwitch.com (650) 787-1912

Dan is his name. The company is Southwest Scale Reproductions. Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 645 Tanner Marsh Road, Guilford, CT 06437 info@... www.speedwitch.com (650)

Tim O'Connor wrote I mean no disrespect to Tim but HOW do you do that. With the other side of the truck in the way it is difficult to drill straight. Also how do you get a consistent depth so the

Gene Green wrote: <<<Setting behind the main building is a GATX insulated tank car dating from the mid-1950s that is partly cut up. When I inquired why they didn't finish cutting it up I was told it

Tony, Now I can put the book that I bought to good use.... And i thought the series would only be good for the beet cars... Jim Scott Lompoc, CA --- Garth Groff <ggg9y@...> wrote: test';

My understanding was and is that this is a "beta" project that is not in production, and not intended to be so in its current state (so no Reboxx listing). Denny -- Denny S. Anspach,

Well, I give up. I looked at steamfreightcars.../partsmain.html a couple of weeks ago when this was mentioned, and again just now, and (to use a steam era phrase), I'll be a monkey's uncle if I can

> I'm sorry to hear he's gone. We freight car buffs owe him a lot. Larry King <lrkdbn@...>

Tony and friends, Oh, poop! Well, I can still use one for interchange traffic. I have photos of SP stock cars running on the SN. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Anthony Thompson wrote:

Ray Breyer wrote: Look again at the end. The -8 end has slats, this one does not. I assume it is S-40-5, since there is a Cyc drawing available for that class, and it has solid ends like the

I'm not sure of the class; for one thing RC didn't have pictures of the underframe on the web site. But the ends are closed so that rules out the S-40-8 and S-40-10 judging by pics in Tony's book. I'm

Looks to me like an S-40-8. If so, great; I need at least one for central Illinois traffic. Ray Breyer

Garth, Haven't a clue. You'll have to talk to that guy that writes SP freight car books... Shawn Beckert

Shawn, Nice for SP fans, but what class is it? Some classes are also correct for WP and UP. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Beckert, Shawn wrote:

List, Word went out this morning that Red Caboose will release a Southern Pacific stock car in HO. I checked their web page and sure enough, here it

Anthony Thompson wrote: Tony, Somebodies in LA might have wanted some good old Anthracite coal mined perhaps by the Alaska or Henry Coal Collieries and prepared at the Locust Gap Breaker, all on the