Clark Propst <cepropst@...> wrote: This is getting out of the Stream Era, but ABD came along in the early 60s I think, then ABDW around the mid-70s or so. Jim Eager could probably get

In the slightly further north, west, try the West Coast Railway Assoc museum in Squamish (just north of Vancouver, B.C.) An on-line tour can be had at http://www.wcra.org/collection/freight.htm Rob

presentation on brass etching Mike Wotnoski is his name, He makes some excellent brass etchings of details like railroad specific cast iron railings, cast signs like yard limit signs, signal parts,

75000 - 75699 AC&F 1912 75700 - 76199 Haskell and Barker 1912 76200 - 77199 AC&F 1916 77200 - 78119 AC&F 1917 Car in photo sure looks like 78138. Chet French

Bob - Why certainly you can pay us to visit! Seriously, we welcome visitors on a pre-arranged basis. If we're busy we'll put you off. If not, we'll set a date and time. We normally have only

--- James D Thompson <jaydeet@...> wrote: The Wabash had 3200 36' Fowlers, 75000-78199. Ted __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess,

Thanks, Jeff and all. Has there been any or many changes to the AB system over the years? Clark Jeff English wrote:

Thanks to all the folks who responded to my plea for lookups from RERs. A good bit of data has been cataloged and more is on the way. A great resource this list is (wish we had Internet ten years

After punching the send button, I realized that there was an error in my post regarding the Wabash box car in the NOPB Ry photo. Those cars wre 36'5" IL, not 40'. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland,

C'mon, Shawn, surely you know that USRA box cars had 5-5-5 corrugated steel ends. In fact, the CMStP&P box car behind the switcher IS a USRA single sheathed box, of which the Milwaukee owned more

Try www.mcrwy.com/ for images of many of Midcontinents holdings

side of David is correct, the car had a 36'-5" IL. The car is from the 77200 - 78199 series built by AC&F in 1917. Cars were described as having z bar or steel ends and Hutchins or radial roofs.

If anyone will send me the info, I'll make a page and post it on the Steam Era Freight Cars web site. I will need to know the location of the car or museum (if it's in a museum) and what type of car

Nope, the ends are wrong and it only has two diagonals on either side of the door. If the number is 78138, it's a 36-ft car anyway. David Thompson, that Milwaukee car is a USRA...

List, You might enjoy this shot of the NOPB Rwy sometime in the 1920's-1930's. The URL will most likely wrap around, but it's worth typing out. Other than the Wabash car in the foreground (honest!),

Tim When I put out that information regards the IC boxcars I was looking for confirmation about the series of cars in general since branchline was coming out with post war cars. The information was

Dave, All of what was put in the car would not always come out. Corn sweetener comes to mind. Molasses? Clark David Soderblom wrote:

All, Please pardon me for using my work e-mail to make this post. I'm glad to hear that Bill's informal meet went well. Several of us from the STMFC list have been talking of-line about doing a

Guy Wilber writes: I've been citing July, 1941 as the cutoff date for so many years I now can't remember where I got that information. But your documentation seems conclusive that 1/40 is the

I was surprised that the discussion of the differences between K and AB brakes did not also point out that the AB's mechanical design and construction was vastly superior to the K brake. The K