I'm trying to identify when the Fort Worth & Denver purchased 36 x FM-14/14A flat cars (89100-89599 series) from CB&Q, renumbered them to 641-676. The first six were shown on the roster by October

I've been gone for a week and thought I'd stop by the site to see what's cooking. I mentioned before I spotted the new car in a video Kadee had running in their booth at a train show in St Paul.

Dream on, Andy, dream on . . . SGL

Chris I'll bet there is another drawing out there... somewhere.. This is just a "general plan" drawing. There may be a "bill of materials" or other auxiliary drawings for every freight car. (He said,

Tim: As you might have noticed, NP diagrams seldom offer useful information on brake appliances--e.g., http://research.nprha.org/NP%20Flat%20Cars/52%20Ft.%20Flat%20Cars%2064000-195.jpg So we pretty

Jeff Pape asked: From Aaron's web site (www.northernspecificmodels.com): Npin53 (at) northernspecificmodels (dot) com Tom Madden

Tim: May have been my own problem somehow. The new pages wouldn't load until I cleared my Firefox cache--reload button had no effect. This is not a problem I have had at other sites. Sorry for the

I don't have my copy of Petty and Mullaly's "The SP in LA" here with me, but my guess is that "mystery freight yard" isn't Taylor but the older River Station Yard. That ladder of double slip switches

The W&R brass cars have an elaborate brake wheel, with a fairly flat profile. I will look at some references tonight and try to figure out what it is supposed to represent. Appliances like brake

Guys, Every once in awhile the Los Angeles Public Library will post on their web page a photo that's of interest to this list. This one is a doozy: http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics40/00054503.jpg There

Apologies l:ist and Ted....and i did it twice in row, sheesh. Fortunately curses against Microsoft are socially acceptable in all circles (even in the steam era). Chris Frissell Polson

BTW, it works just fine in Safari and Firefox on my Mac. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

chris, i'm using firefox 1.5.0.1 -- no problem at all

Ted: Yup, the new decal page loads in Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox. The Speedwitch home page loads different too--an older version loads in Firefox. You might want to mention that on

Tools:Popup Blocker then select on or off. Or install OS 10 8^) -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

Ted: Yup, the new decal page loads in Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox. The Speedwitch home page loads different too--an older version loads in Firefox. You might want to mention that on

MKT decals than some lettering on a the cars had ACF shots of built in 1949 1953. The primarily for Jace - M-K-T #40101-40300 can be modeled almost exactly by putting them on the USH (KTM) #704 triple

Anybody have a a brake wheel recommendation for Northern Specific's resin NP flat car? The kit instructions are silent on this subject. Looks like Aaron maybe used the straight-spoked wheel from the

I didn't think the AAR alt std hopper came with Andrews trucks. :-) It's gotta be the hopper.

Sam Clarke from Kadee says: - Just so long as it has USRA style [[ real springs ]] Andrews trucks - Hah! - Steve Busch, starting that controversy again Duncan, SC