--- In STMFC@..., Tony Thompson <thompsonmarytony@...> Tony is correct; the articles on the design of the Milwaukee Road cars are all unattributed. There is an extensive series of these,

car out title before car is That's OK, since your photos illustrate my point. You might want to add the fact that the woodless frame is a CN car. Wish I had a photo of a Soo car without sheathing to

I am no expert, but agree with Dennis suggestion that the "Fowler" name has lost its usefulness except with respect to means of attachment of side sheathing. I like the "Dominion Car" moniker for the

When did the NP start to paint "Scenic Route of the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited" slogan on the R40-23 reefers? Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Bruce - The tank anchors on AC&F tank cars differentiate their "Type 4" from their "Type 7" tank car designs. AC&F patented a tank anchor that is essentially the modern (for our pre-1960 era) tank

Gentlemen, I see that Mike Brock has approved my photo of the only known spotting feature of the "Fowler" boxcar. View it at: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/photos/browse/da89 Further

Thanks, Tony. If Tom needs better citations, I'll have to dig around for my copies. As I recall, there were similar articles in both magazines at about the same time. What still remains to be

Dennis Storzek wrote: I know of several articles by a Lewis Sillcox in the railroad literature, but the ones on Milwaukee box cars (and stock cars) aren't given with authors. One n box cars is

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

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