Tom, If you have further interest in these cars, I believe there was a series of in depth articles in Railway Mechanical Engineer detailing the "scientific" engineering of car framing by a Mr. Silcox

Thanks to Richard and Tony for their information! The difference in these anchors and those on later cars seems to be that the bottom portion of the later anchor is vertical and extends below the

Brian, I'm not sure if there is another more specific article, but see Richard Hendrickson's article on PFE R-40-23 cars(with info on the PC&F built NP clones) in the October 1994 Railmodel Journal.

Bruce, I'm sending you a builder's photo of a Type 11 tank car which shows the center anchor. The problem in most photos is that the area below the tank bottom sheet and above the center sill is in

Group Members, For folks who have modeling connections with the Late Steam Era B&O I thought this would be of interest. These B&O paint schemes are unique to the Historical Society thus far. BTW,

I am beginning to work on two IM NP Reefers that I have had on the shelf for a long time. I am looking for more information on the R40-23 clones owned by the NP. From a list message I saved I

I finally got around to replacing the ECW Dalman truck with the TMW trucks. Wow! what a difference. Now, what to do with the ECW truck, and their odd Reboxx axle length. Brian J Carlson

Bruce Smith wrote: Bruce, the center anchor was invented in1903 and became widespread by 1910. It happens to have been invented by a name well-known in tank car history, Union Tank's John Van

I pulled two of these kits back out to start on them and recalled that waaaaay back on May 26th, Ted Culotta wrote: <snip> Ted, et al., I hope you haven't added these yet<G>. I wanted to make sure

Good morning to all, I just wanted to say thank you to John LaRue, Tony Thompson, Richard Hendrickson, John Greedy, Tom Baker, and Tim Gilbert, all of whom responded to my query concerning the old

MILW is not shown in the 7/35 ORER either Richard Hendrickson

Tony, The MILW reporting marks were not recognized in the August 1931 ORER, but were recognized in the January 1938 ORER. Tim Gilbert Tony Thompson wrote:

I asked (in response to John Greedy's date of the MILW logo change): Richard Hendrickson replied: Glad to confirm this, as I did think it must have been earlier. Does someone have that

Obviously not, since photos show the MILW reporting marks in use as early as 1936. Richard Hendrickson

The July 1937 ORER states under the heading that the reporting mark for Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company is "Milw.", but no cars are yet listed under that reporting mark. All

In a message dated 9/16/2006 1:45:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, rhendrickson@... writes: On Sep 16, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Tim Gilbert wrote: > The MILW reporting marks were not recognized

While looking in the basement for some "stuff" for a project, I came across some other "stuff" that I no longer have a need for, and I'm hoping to find a good home <vbg>. Prices are marked; shipping

John Greedy wrote: Was this also the date of the change of reporting marks to MILW? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Actually, the medallion change was officially made on February 2, 1953 when the corporate name CMStP&P was liftred in favor of the long standing nickname "The Milwaukee Road". New equipment after

P.S. You can also go to www.gassigns.org. Jared Harper Athens, GA