Richard Hendrickson wrote: I'll admit to not thinking too much about many post WWII cars as my interests fade before 1951... but in my ignorance of 1950-1960 car appearances I always thought of the

Kurt Laughlin wrote: This isn't a simple question, Kurt, and I don't think you can answer it with dimensions alone. Various buyers chose their own interior height, in particular, and so cars

The old MDC car is a composite prototype. Either Athearn or MDC tooled a new, more eastern-looking cupola to replace the AT&SF/Rock Island style one previously used on the car, but it still is a

Kurt, your analysis is essentially correct, though there were actually five main variations: 1932, 1937, 1937 modified, 1944, and postwar. the 1932 cars were 9'4" high inside, the 1937 versions were

Frank Greene wrote: How could it be otherwise? unless I misunderstand Frank's question. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Posted by: "Russell Strodtz" Malcom, I beg to differ. In the case of an intermediate switch road they were getting very little revenue from the movement of a "Road to Road" car. Their profit may

Mal, In my college days at MIT I witnessed the midnight madness on the Grand Junction every night as long strings of cars were moved from the NYC yards in Brighton to the B&M in Charlestown and

Hi: In the last few days I've gotten some back issues of the RPC and taken a good look at some of the files here and on the Steam Freight Cars site, all of which has left me a little confused about

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hi all; In continuing this line of discussion (and because I was asked), I did a detailed look at several yard shots taken at Pittsburgh-area yards in

Jerry Dziedzic wrote: "With so much interest in the topic, I wonder about making it a subject for discussion at one of the Prototype Modeler's meets. I'd enjoy having everyone in the same room and

I understood everything you said except this. Are you saying the home road's cars earned the same PD on foreign roads as the foreign roads' cars earned on the home road? Thanks, Frank

Thank you, all, for contributing to this discussion. I see a lot of validity in all the comments (including some of my own <VBG>). I now see things somewhat differently than I did when we

Malcom, I beg to differ. In the case of an intermediate switch road they were getting very little revenue from the movement of a "Road to Road" car. Their profit may have been about equal to one

Tom, Fixing this could be the biggest challenge <G> I worry less about this as they are there and when painted and weathered, they will show... heck they are closer to correct than most HO

Mal, In my college days at MIT I witnessed the midnight madness on the Grand Junction every night as long strings of cars were moved from the NYC yards in Brighton to the B&M in Charlestown and

Rob, I will see what I can do this weekend. I won't back at the computer until Tuesday. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Rob Kirkham wrote:

Bruce & Garth, I have two of these PRR TM-8 tanks from F&C and on regard to the tank ends and sides, you are absolutely correct, Bruce! The outside diameter of the ends is smaller than the outside

In the back of my ORER (p.771 of the July 1958 issue) are the AAR Car Sevice Rules-Freight. Rule 1 - Home cars shall not be used for the movement of traffic beyond the limits of the home road when

The November/December 2006 issue of The B&O Modeler is posted online at http://borhs.org/ModelerMag/index.html Articles include: Modeling B&O Open Hoppers, 1919 to 1963, Class W-1 and Subclasses,

<chris_hillman@...> wrote: Actually, from what I remember of the photo I saw of one of the C&EI cabooses a couple years ago, the Atlas Trainman caboose is far closer to what C&EI #1-6 looked like.