see below Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@... NOT if your engine was on the wrong end of the car. And the answer to your question is Yes, The UPRR and John Santa Fe. VBG

train crews to the rip usually a pin. Bet the knuckle dissapeared when someone got one in the yard and didn't want to "fess up" or make a trip to the RIP for a replacement. Dennis

Larry, Are you SURE you worked for a railroad <VBG>? Of course crews USUALLY replaced knuckles, but on occaision they did not for a variety of reasons. The car could be moved without chains by

I have never seen a car go ti the rip track for a knuckle. The train crews always replaced it. Other wise you have to chain it up to get it to the rip track. Thank you Larry

Missed that <G>! That however doesn't mean that it is a stationary shed... coupler knuckles were a dime a dozen. The circumstances could range from the car being dropped on a RIP track to get that

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: "Asking before what was accurate saved me a lot of money . . . .what about this time?" <http://www.intermountain-railway.com/flyer51w.jpg> Tim O'Connor replied: "Schuyler, 4

Larry writes: "I have never seen a car go it the rip track for a knuckle. The train crews always replaced it. Other wise you have to chain it up to get it to the rip track. Thank you Larry

Schuyler, 4 of the 8 cars have KC brakes which indicates they may be not correct for your era of the 1950's. For example the SP B-50-12's were rebuilt into all-steel cars by 1950. The latest photos I

Thanks, Greg! And Ben, too! And since we all model the PRR . . . ;^) SGL

Bruce Smith wrote Look again at the photo -- the car has no knuckle in the coupler. But there is no evidence of a collision -- so someone removed it. That car is not going anywhere until someone

From: "al_brown03" <abrown@...> Subject: Freight car washing (was Photo of R-40-25) More generally, how many *freight car* owners washed cars at all? I vaguely recall reading, somewhere, that

moved couplers and It may also have been used to bring the car heaters into a central location for servicing and storage at the end of the heating season, and send them back out into the field again

Tim, I would say that the car hasn't been moved in a few days, as the wheel treads are rusty, but to assume that it is stationary and cannot be moved seems a bit a of stretch. It is still equipped

<http://www.intermountain-railway.com/flyer51w.jpg> Asking before what was accurate saved me a lot of money . . . .what about this time? SGL

Schuyler, You can trust the PRR units are correct unless they changed something since Ben Hom went oer it with a fine toothed comb... He and I even agreed on the color and I think they did a

The gift at the Spring 2002 Sunshine meet in California was a mini-kit to convert an IM boxcar to a ATSF Bx-41 or -49. Does anyone know if that mini-kit is available currently? I'm presenting a

Models are inspected at the door for domestic content (i.e., south of the gnat line). <vbg> But, there really wasn't much from outside the SE... Jared Harper's grain elevators from the ATSF Alma

Jack, Not going to happen, unless we can turn back the hands of time to an era when the general modeling population was interested in the "archbar era." By the way, this might be a good place to

In a message dated 4/8/2006 6:46:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, STMFC@... writes: Wheel sets from Reboxx with longer axles would take up some of that side-to-side slack but is that