<John Nehrich wrote: One of our members is assembling a bunch of the Stewart channel side hoppers, and wanted to know what trucks to use. I found one picture where I think the car had Andrews, but it

No, it's the UTLX class X design which followed the VanDyke cars (class V) after the Master Car Builders' Assn. ruled that tank cars had to have center sills, rather than transmitting pulling and

Shawn - The Van Dyke cars had no underframe. The biggest problem with the MDC kit is that in order to get in enough weight in the underframe, they made it about twice as tall, so the tank sits way too

List, I have questions to ask about a certain MDC tank car kit, though I've a good idea what the answer will be. I just received several M.D. McCarter prints of UTLX tank cars that appear to have

I have only one photo of a WM channel side car and it dates from ca. 1961, after Andrews trucks were banned in interchange, so it may have had Andrews trucks earlier in life. The trucks in the photo

Yeah, that's my work alright. The data here that I think is an eye opener is the sum of cells J12 and J21 (totals about 25%), which is the percentage of ALL away from home boxcars that are marked

Steam Listers, I have in my possession a copy of "Freight Car Journal No. 63: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway". It's a great reference work, a decent substitute for

I just uploaded "Home vs Foreign.xls", which is an Excel spreadsheet that I received (IIRC) from Dave Nelson. It's in the files area at www.yahoogroups.com. BTW, the data I have from Railway Age

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:19:59 -0500 "John Nehrich" <nehrij@...> writes: John, One thing to keep in mind is that the Stewart kit is a poor representation of only the cars that WM rebuilt in 1952.

I've bitten the bullet and STARTED writing up a synopsis of freight car paint schemes at: http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/rolling-stock/Freight-Car-Paint-Sch emes.html I have a LOT to go,

Warren Dickinson asks: Depends on the railroad, the era, and the particular part of the railroad, Warren. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA

One of our members is assembling a bunch of the Stewart channel side hoppers, and wanted to know what trucks to use. I found one picture where I think the car had Andrews, but it isn't clear, and one

their Ah, did I happen to mention that I am also a member of the midearthrails group? I keep our mascot, Smaug II, in my back yard. Jack Priller Honorable Association of Good Guys and Irreverent

I have read that AT&SF was closer to 60%, while the UP and SP reported 30% but that this ignored PFE cars!* I think 30% is a minimum for a model of most any railroad, just to plant the idea in the

Regarding per centages of home cars on home rails, I believe that Dave Nelson provided us with some '44 [?] data about this some time ago. I know I have it somewhere. Anyhow, I believe that for UP,

This is a test only.

Warren Dickinson wrote: Certainly a valid generalization, Warren, but there are so many exceptions that you can't count on it applying in specific cases unless you have photographic or other

Tim O'Connor writes: Well, let's wait until we see them before we get overly excited. Yes, the likelihood of seeing a model of an H-70-1 is about the same as seeing a plastic scale model of UP Big

Steam Listers, Our prior discussion about foreign road hoppers got me to thinking again about the subject of proper ratios of home vs. foreign road cars in recreating history via

I thought of sitting down and translating the small print, but figured it wasn't worth the effort and no one would care. Warren