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Re: Quesions about a depressed center flat car

When I was on the UPRR in 1949/51 it was 25 mph Thank you Larry Jackman billd@... wrote:

By ljack70117@... · #5256 ·

Byron's apology

Yeah, I think all of us deserve an apology from Byron. I followed his suggestion of oven curing my resin RBM Pullman Troop Sleepers, at the heat setting of Self clean (for 3 1/2 hours) in my oven ,

By ANDY CARLSON <mcandy@...> · #5254 ·

Re: Quesions about a depressed center flat car

The railroads refer to these type of loads as "high-wide". And they are given a slower than normal speed limit...I believe that the maximum speed for a high-wide train is 45 mph. Bill Daniels Tucson,

By billd@... · #5255 ·

Re: Quesions about a depressed center flat car

I am looking at a drawing for a Seaboard Air Line depressed center flat, car # 7000-7004. These cars were rated at 125 tons. They feature the following brake equipment. Schedule

By Denis F. Blake <dblake3@...> · #5234 ·

Re: Byron Rose vents and etc.

Guys, Have you seen the Mountain Dew commercial, the mountain goat and ----, welllllllllllllllllll Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax DCC owner, Chief system NMRA Life

By Jon Miller <atsf@...> · #5253 ·

Re: WM auto car

Rare? Uncommon maybe. N&W for one liked the stuff and used it on their mid-1930s-early 1940s covered and open hoppers. David Thompson

By James D Thompson <jaydeet@...> · #5252 ·

Re: Byron Rose vents and manages to get most the details wrong (was Re: depressed center flat car)

Ahhh, Mike, let it go. Sometimes you have to just note what you noticed, and let others know, as you did here. An apology from Byron? "tain't worth it, don't worry yer head. Go on with

By Schuyler G Larrabee <SGL2@...> · #5251 ·

Byron Rose vents and manages to get most the details wrong (was Re: depressed center flat car)

Byron, I suggest you owe Norm Dresner and the list an apology for your intemperate remarks. Although Model Railroader has had articles advancing the level of modelmaking, they have also

By mbcarson2002 · #5250 ·

Tichy tank prototypes was - Re: Richard H's RMJ 8/96 tank articles

with Russ Pinchbeck used 2 Intermountain frames under the Tichy tank with an Intermountain dome to produce a war emergency tank car (subject of my CGTX decal set) He did a presentation at the

By ajfergusonca <ajferguson@...> · #5249 ·

Re: WM auto car

--- "Garth G. Groff" <ggg9y@...> wrote: It was a 100 car order with Duryea underframes, Dreadnaught ends and the rare diamond tread

By Ted Culotta <ted_culotta@...> · #5248 ·

depressed center flat car

Dear Byron Hear, hear! Having gotten my start in the 1950's as a callow high school student mostly ignored by the crowd (including the clerks) at Howard Ruth's in Buffalo when I went to spend my

By JGG KahnSr · #5247 ·

Re: Quesions about a depressed center flat car

Tony and Byron, I have to agree with Tony on this point. If a depressed center car was carrying the sort of load they were designed for, wouldn't the train likely be under some sort of slow order? Of

By Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...> · #5245 ·

Re: Color hopper photos circa 1949

in '60 confused <snip> 72000-72999 black with painted underframe, slope painted. This is freight car Accupaint the use of now becomes America" was for this since 1997 from 1948

By cef39us <cfrench@...> · #5244 ·

Re: Quesions about a depressed center flat car

Byron asks: Tony, do you really think that it takes two sets of AB brakes to control Normal AB brakes of that era were for 50- or 70-ton cars (140,000 pounds capacity). So yes, it might well have

By thompson@... · #5243 ·

Re: REA 6900-7899 class

Byron, claiming not to be argumentative, said: Byron, let's have some documentation that anything was ever "scraped off" in redating air tanks. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

By thompson@... · #5242 ·

Re: WM auto car

Larry, No, the Sunshine car is a 1937 car with different ends. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Larry Smith wrote:

By Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...> · #5241 ·

Re: WM auto car

Didn't Sunshine do this car recently or is it another WM car? Larry smith "Garth G. Groff" wrote:

By Larry Smith · #5240 ·

Re: Quesions about a depressed center flat car

When did truck mounted brakes come into use? Seems to me they would eliminate the problem of mechanical linkage via rods. My guess is that the cars had hand brakes at each end as a safety factor. For

By Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> · #5239 ·

Re: WM auto car

Ian and friends, Thanks to all who identified the WM auto car ends. Looks like I won't be kitbashing these cars anytime soon. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff ian clasper wrote:

By Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...> · #5238 ·

Re: WM auto car

Hi Garth There is a 3/4 photo of WM 30001 in RPC vol 4 pg 30. The ends are an unusual style, certainly not dreadnought. The lower part consisits of 4 "valleys", pressed below the plane of the end of

By ian clasper <ianclasper@...> · #5237 ·

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