Perhaps asking when truss rods were outlawed is asking the wrong question. The more relevant questions are: 1. When were the rules changed so that truss rods alone would not do ? -- requiring

... Collinsville, Conn. For more information, contact Dave Owens at daowens@... or visit our website: http://www.trainweb.org/neprototypemeet/ Please pass the word about the

As many of you are no doubt aware, Yahoo is having some problems with duplicate messages. The STMFC has thankfully not been affected very much by this but there are a few. I have taken no action as a

Go to: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/ (LIBRARY of Congress) Look for the Browse Collection header, select subject then yards!!! Includes maps as well as photos, mysteriously with

last summer I ordered a new "staff" type hand brake for a PPGX tank car, very few of these cars left. Jeff Coleman

Tim, It is interesting to note that much later some GTW cars started showing up with the logo of a processed foods company about a foot square stuck on them. I will acknowledge this could have been

Meyers Vinegar was located in Freeport, IL. Meyers received vinegar in bulk in both the horizontal wooden tank and vertical circular vat cars. The vinegar was repackaged in jars and shipped in refers.

Wayner's book "Freight Car Pictorial" shows a war surplus Army flatcar in use to haul municipal trash seen at Council Bluffs on the U.P. ca. 1971. It clearly has truss rods.I know this is "the

Correct. The heralds applied to these cars were 2' square instead of 3', so that the stencils would fit the narrower side sheathing panels without overlapping the rivet seams – though when repainted

Allen mentioned: On my first build, I used Kadee arch bar trucks (5'-6" wheelbase) and just clipped off the lowest rung and bottom of the stiles of the ladders. They still look like they should as

Allen I have used 20/30 series coupler 'draft gear' in many cases because they are much smaller and unobtrusive. They fit the standard Kadee shanks found on #5, scale #58, and most other Kadees. And

I have built this kit, and it's a little sweety. Assembly is more like a resin kit than an Intermountain. The KD 78's fit with a little shortining of the box and the end channel. I couldn't imagine

ALL cars are New Assembled, ready to run freight cars. Branchline Trains of CT. has just recently joined the ranks of US companys having their plastic car offerings painted and assembled in China. I

In older times, the bakers grew yeast in the plant. Farm kitchens had a crock in back of the stove and the yeast was fed sugar. Vintners guarded their yeasts because bad yeasts make poor wine; bad

Barry & group, I gave up waiting. Have three CB&T kits presently in the shop. The first of which is about to pop out fully finished and weathered(!)... it is amazing how that happens... :-)... in a

We still seem to be waiting for the Branchline 10'6" IH 12-panel box, said to be "forthcoming" back then. <schuyler.larrabee@...> wrote: 2004? > >

Your point is? SGL

Is this thread redux of another, along about message #30334, May 2004? Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: On Mar 27, 2007, at 6:47 PM, Schuyler Larrabee wrote: [etc.]

And if I recall these cars are interesting because they used a special Santa Fe emblem that was sized to fit the 12 panel side. As far as I know Champ was the only source for this. Tim O'Connor

Doug, Are you talking about Atkins Pickles? Or was it Adkins Pickkles? Whatever, I remember stopping there in 1964 for a visit and bringing home to Bartrlesville, Oklahoma, a gallon of really great