Back in March, Bruce Griffin sent the message below concerning Heinz vinegar cars. A search showed a lot of responses, but none covered the painting and lettering. Heinz had a vinegar plant in

Bill its; cslater@... or atsfcondr42@... see you in October Charlie _________________________________________________________________ A new home for Mom, no cleanup required. All

Richard, Does the model have an ACF-style underframe? I went through all the ACF tank car data and can find NO 8,000-gallon ICC-105s were ever built. The closest I can find is an order of 6 cars

Andy Miller wrote: This is exactly right. But the early truss-frame, single-sheath cars were explicitly designed WITHOUT letting the truss sides do any work, and the underframe was beefy enough

Tom, I can recommend: "Pacific Fruit Express" <http://www.signaturepress.com/pfe2.html>. "Burlington Bulletin" No. 12 <http://www.burlingtonroute.com/costore/bb.htm>. I'm sure there are additional

SACX 687 was a 6,000 gal. car, as were many other ICC-105s built for chlorine and similar service. As usual, the absence of evidence proves nothing, but I have a lot of photos and data on these

The issue, as already noted, was whether the longest members, the diagonals, would be in compression or tension. In wood construction, joints in tension are inherently weak, so putting the diagonals

Elden Although I can't say the 8k ACF "hi-pressure" type car (OMI 3134) represents an actual car, I do have a scan of SACX 687, which is about the same size, leased to PPG Chemicals in the 1960's.

Marty, Funny you should mention this as I had the same question several years ago. FWIW, here's what I concluded after much shearching through class sheets, OER's, and Car Builder Cyclopedia's. The

Richard; Thanks for the info on those cars! I remember you also commenting on the OVL 10k UTLX "X-3" cars, but I don't recall what you found wrong with them (I do remember you said there were

Ed; They carried everything their brethren did, although the railroads tended to assign them a bit more to services appropriate for what they bought them for. Structural steel included flanged

General Warning: Some of the Overland tank car models of that vintage are correct, but many were painted and lettered in bogus paint schemes, often based on photos of vaguely similar cars in

Besides structural steel what would be some common loads for 65 ft. steam era gons? Would structural steel be I beams and the like? Were electrical transmission towers preassembled (drilled and

What seems to be the problem, Marty? I looked up the cars in the 1/58 ORER (I assume it's CV 7517 –7677 and/or 7700 – 7781 you are interested in). The ORER shows the inside length to be 36'-10"

Gentlemen, Thanks to all who responded to my question re. the Atlas/Trainman 70 ton hoppers. I was especially glad to learn that the B&O had a bunch(even if second-hand) in the 1960's.

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Marty, I'll take any NSC ends you wish to dispose of . . . contact me off list. Jim Peters Coquitlam, BC _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail is

I need to send something to ATSF modeler Charley Slater. I looked through the membership list and did not see his name but could have missed him. Can someone send me his email address. My address

Marty, This discrepancy could be the length over the deck vs. length to face of coupler or some other pertinent dim that was "outside" of the deck length. Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch

What do you mean "labeled as uninsulated"? Where is this ad? For sure the Western Asphalt and Cities Service cars could be accurate. Don't know about the Army car -- 10287-10859 were 1-dome, 10,000