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Re: When Did Autoframes Start Moving to California?

Thanks Richard! I did look for any coal hoppers in the UP train that could have been transported over Sherman Hill, but alas, there was none in that DVD.

By gary laakso · #69223 ·

Re: When Did Autoframes Start Moving to California?

Gary, the larger auto manufacturers had satellite assembly plants in Southern California (and other parts of the country remote from Detroit) as early as the 1920s, so the shipment of auto parts to

By Richard Hendrickson · #69222 ·

Re: Apologies my index came from the Trains.com search

Gordon, no one source will give anyone everything. Trains.com is just one of many sources to check. SGL

By Schuyler Larrabee · #69221 ·

M&St.L boxcar - OK,Ok, I'll build one

After all the talk about Clark's RMC article, I dug out the relevant issue. Not too hard; it was still at the top of the heap. After reading the article again, I decided to maybe build one. I checked

By Jim & Lisa Hayes <jimandlisa97225@...> · #69220 ·

When Did Autoframes Start Moving to California?

I paid more attention this viewing of Mine Line Motion Picture's Western Steam in 1940 DVD and in the sequence over Cajon Pass, from the Santa Fe heavyweight passenger train there is a UP bullmoose

By gary laakso · #69219 ·

Applogies my index came from the Trains.com search

I just checked thinking I missed something when I compiled my �index.� Everything that is/was available (Trains.COM) was in my PDF document. I guess the Trains.com index is a bit behind. I�ll

By sryn.dump <sryn.dump@...> · #69217 ·

Re: M&STL 50' plug door.

Doug, thanks to you and Gene Green for sharing this information. I know it's not a simple process to accumulate and organize this sort of stuff, and sharing shows your generous natures. SGL

By Schuyler Larrabee · #69218 ·

Re: M&STL 50' plug door.

Rick, and others, I have created a "MSTL freight cars" folder in the group files. In it you will find two files, both pdf's so the formating is retained, and both created by Gene Green. One is a

By Douglas Harding <dharding@...> · #69216 ·

B&O Duryea underframes, was Re: B&O Modeler Articles

Al Brown wrote: Al, The basic difference between these two Duryea underframes is the ATSF has fabricated cross bearers of an "open" design whereas the B&O used cross bearers stamped from plate steel

By rwitt_2000 <rmwitt@...> · #69215 ·

B&O Duryea underframes, was Re: B&O Modeler Articles

Bill Darnaby wrote: Duryea were Builders my sure The resource referenced by Bill is probably the best "generic" example for modeling a 1940's version of the Duryea underframe used by the B&O on their

By rwitt_2000 <rmwitt@...> · #69214 ·

Re: Short (height) box cars

F&C call these kits "B&M 40' XM-1 SS boxcars": kits #6000-6005 in various versions. The prototypes are 1924 ARA standard single- sheathed boxcars; see Ted Culotta's "Steam Era Freight Cars

By al_brown03 · #69213 ·

Re: B&O Duryea underframes, was Re: B&O Modeler Articles

I fell into this pit last summer while building a prototype kit for Sunshine's now released M-55c kit. This kit contained the same old Duryea parts found in the M-53 kit which, when viewing an M-55

By Bill Darnaby · #69212 ·

Short (height) box cars

Can anyone help with the nomenclature of the short (height-wise; not length-wise) 40' single sheath boxcars the Boston & Maine (and maybe others?) owned?. Bob Smaus featured one next to an AT&SF box

By xv_corps · #69211 ·

B&O Duryea underframes, was Re: B&O Modeler Articles

Googling "Duryea underframe" yields two hits to Speedwitch kits, one each for B&O and ATSF cars. I don't know one Duryea underframe from another, but the pictures may perhaps inform Duryea cognoscenti

By al_brown03 · #69210 ·

B&O Duryea underframes, was Re: B&O Modeler Articles

List member Bob Witt has studied the Duryea patent trail and found that the Duryea underframe changed much over time and B&O purchases followed their latest technology. You learn little about an

By jim_mischke <jmischke@...> · #69209 ·

Re: B&O Modeler Articles

Thank you, Bruce, I have a question: It goes without saying that B&O went in for Duryea underframes in a big way. Were these generally the same in execution from, say, one boxcar class to another? To

By Tony Higgins · #69208 ·

Re: Getting organized

Then there is the.... Kits that will never get built because they sat so long in the "to do" pile that one (or more!!!) generations of new, improved better kits have sucessively been purchased to

By Charlie Vlk · #69207 ·

Re: Essential Freight Cars

All I have taken the liberty of updating my original Essential Freight Cars article list from April of last year... and posting it to the files

By Richard Brennan <brennan8@...> · #69206 ·

New file uploaded to STMFC

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /EssentialFreightCars40.pdf Uploaded by :

By STMFC@... · #69205 ·

Re: M&STL 50' plug door.

Doug, I would be interested in Gene's list if you could post it. Rick Dietrichson Wilmington,NC

By rdietrichson · #69204 ·

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