Thanks to everyone for the information. Either I overlooked that one (sort of unlikely... I did a BUNCH of damage to my bank account during my walk through the URTX folder! ;> ) or it was one of

thanks for correct identifying this; another feature of the despatch end was a 5-3-1 corrugation whereas I believe the referenced car is 4-4 roger Hinman

Charlie had a fantastic amount of steam era photographs. Does anyone know how the collection is to be disposed of? Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr

I bought some of these way back when and I think that they were R-T-R and I believe came in a box with a cellophane window. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon

Group, I just received an email stating that Charlie Winters died in a hospital Friday morning. No other details. Charlie was a switchman on the Wabash at North Kansas City for years and

Tim, Thanks for breaking the cars down by region. I did check the inbound information that was available and found that the following outbound loaded cars had arrived as inbound loads to Honeggers.

Hey Rod Did you buy the three built up ones at OSW? I was wondering about the steam era use as well and didn't buy them. Neat looking car but felt they were too modern for use on my

Chet French listed the 90 boxcars loaded by the Honegger Feed Mill on the WABASH's Streator Branch at Fairbury IL between January 4th and 29th, 1955. The table below breaks down the ownership of these

I have some Kar-Line kits with custom painted and decaled Athearn bodies, CV trucks and KD #5 couplers included. Did they also sell them built-up? Doug Brown

The fishbelly shape was developed by N&W in 1936 as a way to maintain the low attachment point of the hopper bays to the side sheet while providing more clearance over the truck sideframe, and tie the

The BL class was built by Ralston (caption for 67990 in the 1925 CBC, p.124). They had 7-8 ends rather than the 3-3-3 ends on the USRA cars. The half-door meant that the vertical post just to the

I took pictures of similar cars on the ATSF in the 70's. The sides are "nailable steel", similar to the flooring of many cars. The reweigh dates were from the early 70's. I don't have any proof of

URTX 35521 is a General American product based upon the General American "standard" steel refrigerator first introduced in 1936. The first cars had articulated hinges and flat riveted ends and roofs.

Gordon, You bring up some good points. One thing I can add is that the A&D did lease some SAL 2-bay cov hoppers for cement service to the dam! You are correct about the AB brake rules and that is

The despatch end wasn't introduced that early so if the photo date is correct, the adjacent car is probably not MDT Roger Hinman

This is an Ambroid kit number O-7, the O scale version of H-7. See http://home.att.net/~pers_home/trains/woodkits/Ambroid_H-Cars.htm#H-7 for info on the kit and prototype. I'm attempting to

On the Wabash's Streator branch, the railroad serviced the Honegger feed mill at Fairbury, IL. The traffic generated was mostly outbound box cars loads of bagged feed with a few cars of bulk feed,

I have Bob's Photo #FURTX 6 of URTX 35521 purchased from him in Naperville a couple of years ago. It was photographed on 9-14-51 in Fayetteville, N.C. Richard Berry Warsaw, Indiana

While formulas are nice and often work- (I suspect)there are a "few" other variables related to A&D and other roads of the same predicament that might throw "black and white (and red) calculations

The following link mainly pertains to the castings used on Sherman tanks but I believe it also has some relevance to locomotive and freight car truck