Mike; What you say dovetails with the boards I looked at on an ex-PRR F41 flat. The boards were oak, "nominally" 3 inches thick (closer to 2 ½"), and varied in width to accommodate the distance

I just found the details. March 27 - 28, 2009 Railroad Prototype Modelers Seminar Seminar: 1:00pm Friday through 11:00pm Saturday Registration Form

Bruce Smith wrote: SP car specs say "treated" lumber, usually Douglas fir, but photos how a light color which is obviously not creosoted. My recollections from the 1950s certainly do not include

--- John Golden wrote: Pittsburgh in 2009?  I hear there will be some steam freight car (required content) models there. ==================================== John, I can't recall the exact dates,

Al You can read the subject line, yes? I routinely delete messages (not necessarily from STMFC) when I know it's a thread in which I have no interest. It takes about 2 seconds. If I miss something

FWIW, At the 2004 Monon Society convention, ex-carman Bob Schultz displayed an O scale model of Monon car 7032 that he had scratch built. This specific car was significant to Bob because as a rip

Bob, I think that however you can think to do it, it was done that way by someone <G> 70 ton flats usually, which interestingly includes the PRR F30A where I mentioned that there was a range in

Bruce Smith wrote: > snip Bruce, You raise an interesting point and question "How did car builders place the decking on flat cars?" Did they start from the ends as you do or from the middle. I have

As I noted in my message of August 18, we have just about drained the useful information out of the frt car distribution thread. I also asked in that thread for opinions regarding the acceptable

Drawings start in 1926 for hopper cars, flat cars and gondolas, we have one 1955 conceptual drawing for an M-55 boxcar. Tale Care -Nick Fry Archivist Director at Large

Yesterday I saw a RDG retrospective on "Trains and Locomotives" on RFD- TV. The first segment was all steam (both B&W and color)including a camelback. There was a MILW 2 bay offset hopper in a

Could you please tell us the exact time period these cover. Cyril Durrenberger nfryumbc <borhsarchives@...> wrote: The B&O Railroad Historical Society is happy to announce

The B&O Railroad Historical Society is happy to announce that a selection of steam era B&O Painting and Lettering Diagrams are now available via our new publication "Scans from the Archives Vol. 3" A

Hey Guys,   Does anybody know the dates for Larry Kline's RPM Meet over in Pittsburgh in 2009?  I hear there will be some steam freight car (required content) models there.   Thanks, John John

Rob, On the subject of creosoted lumber for flat car decks. We've learned here previously some railroads did precisely that (e.g. AT&SF), and that others (e.g. PRR) did not (Pennsy used oak, which

Is there some way to limit this subject to say no more than say 5 e-mails per day? . . . . unless there is NEW real data to share? . . . . or is there some way to make this a sub-group that one has an

All, Many components get close to scale dimensions. Why not the airhose as has been mentioned before. To make a scale gladhand I need the dimensions of it better a measured drawing. Is there any

Knowing the UP, this probably happened more than a few times...

Jason & Rob I'm working from original PRR drawings that show the planking to be Tongue & Groove 2 3/8" x 5 1/4". I guess we are used to lumber yard sizes and not Mill sizes. Ed Schleyer Rob & Bev

Steve, Those cars obviously got there, but did they ever get home? Mexican railroads were (and still are) notorious for capturing U.S. cars. I've heard that even today when they come back north, the