Many thanks Elden, just the sort of info I was after. The pics I've been able to find/see of gons laden with crates tend to be consist pics or yard-wide shots

Frank Valoczy writes: "2 questions back: 1, does that 'biggest' have to have been something in the US? 2, does a railway gun count?" "If the answers are NO and YES respectively... maybe

Frank Voloczy asked: http://galerija.railserbia.net/details.php?image_id=793 <<snip>> "...I'm wondering if anyone knows of a model that could be used to model these cars?" Bruce Smith replied: "There

Frank, We have talked about these tank cars a number of times here on this list. This is, as you note, a US built tank car. Most likely built for use in WWII. It is s SINGLE compartment tank

Alan; They were commonly placed on crosswise 4 by 6's (or similar) so one could get cables or chains under the load, and then blocked with stacks of wood blocks nailed together in as high a stack

Hmmm... strictly speaking, it's not a single *load* though. When broken down into it's constituent parts, it required something like 5 or 6 separate trains to move Dora from place to place (plus a

Sorry Guys, This was to be off list and I forgot to put Brian's email address in the address line. Regards, Tom Olsen Newark, Delaware, 19711-7479

Hi Brian, Please send me a copy of the flyer for the new Buckeye truck so that I can make a decision as to whether I need it and if so how many. Best Regards, Tom Olsen 7 Boundary Road, West

Hopefully this is enough within the scope of this list to be okay... it *is* steam era, and it *is* railway, and it *is* American... made. http://galerija.railserbia.net/details.php?image_id=793 On

2 questions back: 1, does that 'biggest' have to have been something in the US? 2, does a railway gun count? If the answers are NO and YES respectively... maybe

In the far distant past ( about 1953, 54) I worked a couple of summers in a packing house (pears, not citrus) and helped unload some carloads of box shook. The box cars were loaded to the top of the

Folks, This is a loaded question. It is is relation to a C&O Chessie NEWS article from May 30, 1958. It deals with a very large atomic reactor movement via river barge up the Tennessee River to the

Brian, I just replaced my worn out Badger unit from many years ago with a Paasche unit. http://www.paascheairbrush.com/booths_hssb.html I'm very pleased with the results. I've been using it now for

Armand, I don't know why, but I'm pretty computer ignorant. If you give me a mailing address, I'll snail-mail it to you. Brian Tahoe Model Works

I am in the market for a paint booth for my airbrushing endeavors. I'm looking for any recommendations and pointers before I buy one. Thanks. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Richard- As the thread wandered from the specific Lima N Scale car, I thought I would add some information about the nearest prototype to the Lima car. I am not defending a car that has been

I measured one of my pear boxes. It is Length 24", width 15" and height 9". All the local canner's and growers used this size box in Santa Clara Valley. eric ************** Get fantasy

Brian,Have a problem.Even though my computer has Microsoft Word,I can't open it.Armand

Ben Hom wrote: Ben's summary is fine. I covered the Athearn conversion in my modeling article in RMC, March 1987. Another shortcoming of the Athearn model relative to PFE is that the sheathing

Thanx Ben. PFE R-40-24 New 55 "There ARE dashes in PFE clsasses" ;-) regards, Andy Miller