Tony you are of course correct here, but let me add just some more detail to help the group understand this a little better. The tariff that covered this was the Perishable Freight,

All I can say is that with the Tank Cars book example, the GNRHS Reference Sheet and the general appearance of the car, it looks like an approx. 12000 gallon AC&F type 11 tank car. What it is - that

For those interested, here is some reproducible data on which I rely on selecting Reboxx replacement wheelsets for selected Accurail and Tahoe trucks. My goal is an amalgam of maximum rollability,

I had a boss one time who would say "We're not making it up, only reporting it." I was only passing on what I read in "Sunset Limited." Time stopped in November 1941 Walter M. Clark Pullman,

That's right, Tony. I want all the errors in my models to be there because I didn't execute something correctly, not because I made the wrong choice in some part. Time stopped in November

Ok Guys, You have me confused. Is it a 12,000 gallon type 11 car built by ACF? Or something else? Sincerely, Rich Yoder 7 Edgedale Court Wyomissing PA 19610-1913 610-678-2834 after 6:00PM est until

Tony Thompson says: "What makes sense to me is to restrict any bridge discussions to their applicability to freight car design." Yes. The termination is with regard to stand alone bridge discussion.

Good afternoon folks, I've begun taking orders on my latest DVD, "Painting and Weathering Detail Castings with Dave Revelia". This 60-minute DVD covers Dave's award-winning techniques on several

Mike Brock wrote: What makes sense to me is to restrict any bridge discussions to their applicability to freight car design. What we just had was a thread about how bridges themselves are

Jim Sabol writes: "I don't mean this to sound smarty pants, but it just sems good to remind ourselves that the framing inside the walls of both freight cars, passenger cars, and hood unit diesels do

now Mike and all: Granted that bridges are not freight cars, but I guarantee you that freight cars are bridges inasmuch as their sides and underframes must support both dead and live loads between

Brian, the set of "The Old Reliable" I use is from Curt Fortenberry. He's listed on the Great Decals website and his e-mail is arrphoto at alaska dot net. His set SE-2A has 6 TOR slogans priced at

gallons. Reference bull sheet

Last Wednesday I wrote: Sheet I screwed up. The Reference Sheet states ACF, not PSC. Sorry, Brian Leppert Carson City, NV

I know this is out of era, but it relates to Don Worthy's comments about clay shipment. I thought some might be interested to know that in New England today there is exactly one railroad customer

Malcolm You should check with club members before making such assumptions. The whole point of the pulp-->paper mill is that it produces fine quality, coated papers. A kraft mill or newsprint mill

Marty (not signing his full name) wrote: Shipper could choose--there were no "regulations," though there was a tariff which specified charges for various services. This is explained further in

I think we've covered the box car side pretty well. But what about tank cars. I'm supposing there are some used in the pulp to paper process that would arrive in tank cars. What is known about that

Thanks Don and Russ for the input. From their density information and other stuff that I've found, it looks like 50 tons of paper would reuquire a box car of about 5555 cubic feet - much more than

Given that bridges are not frt cars, discussions about bridges are now terminated. Mike Brock STMFC Owner