I'm working on some drawings of Milwaukee DS boxcars that I want to model. The Milw Freight Car Diagrams I have indicate that these cars had Bettendorf underframes. Does anyone have a source for a

The Southern car is riveted. On the model there are no rivets that attach the bays to the sides however. Also missing on the model are the poling pockets. Tim you are right the model is slightly

Andy Carlson wrote: This is a good summary of the bridge perspective, Andy, but it misses two points. First, steel trusses were essentially universal in bridge building after about 1880, and

Hello all, To broaden my original question a bit - I would also greatly appreciate any references to works that discuss the transition from ice to mechanical reefers in terms of both design and

I think that the Howe truss designed car was familiar with the RR's back when cars were mostly of all wood construction. The engineering of wood trusses takes advantage of the greater strength of

Although I seem to know that in bridge engineering a Pratt truss is inherently lighter than a Howe, and thus in practice, the Howe is relatively rare, how does this play out in boxcar design? Does

Dick, Specifically looking at the cars in the 5100-5105; 7518-7677; and 7700-7781 series. Marty

Marty, You are correct. There should be no initials on the doors of these cars. Some Canadian modelers have had success using a citrus based cleaner for removing the offending marks. As for your

Bill, I've managed to round up a few of these -- the maple leaf cars are about gone (at least I can't find any more!) but it's fairly straightforward to add leafs to the cars with the plain CN

Maybe this has been dicussed before but a message from Canada alerted me to a group of CN steel boxcar models. I cannot look at this list aften as before so maybe I am late with this news. Anyway

Hi.....The warping is not a result of an action with fumes but from the Goo itself. Goo never completely drys, and the solvent in it will continue to attack the surface for years. This will result in

Yes, Ed, you can order direct from Speedwitch Media. But give us a break! I'm just sending Ted the last of the photo captions this morning, and he still has to do all of the layout and get the

Sometimes polymer compositions like plastic become brittle after many years because they slowly loose plasticizer. After 20+ years the floor tiles in my parents home started to crack wherever a chair

Tim, I stated that the Atlas Trainman is of riveted construction at least this is what is visible on the side stakes. David Thompson suggested a hybrid construction with a welded center sill and

Tony writes- H-mmm. From glue originally improperly piled on thick like Ambroid and then contact closed improperly before its time? But from "fumes" wafting around for years in a closed car body??

Saturday my wife and I made a freight car parts delivery to Denny at his lakeside home Saturday. Denny had done an excellent job of assembling several resin kits while he has been there, how he can

reccomended Seems like Atlas may have taken that description from a much different prototype, the offset triple (as modeled by Stewart and then Accurail.) Who had anything even similar to this Atlas

Bruce Griffin correctly pointed out to me that I used INGESTION where I should have used INHALATION where lead fumes are inhaled in my previous post on lead. Sorry for the mistake but I think that

I can't speak about the CV cars but lengths are often an issue of confusion. I've come across at least four different lengths in rr documentation: IL: the useable length on a car, or interior

Jim Eager wrote to MFCL 7-June-2005 about this model: ============================================================= ... basically a remake of the MDC 9-panel, which was never great and definitely