wrote: Pierre Oliver > Gee, I guess I got a geography lesson? Here I always thought we traveled to NW Ontario. It's just northern? There's no west? You sire you aren't from Quebec? He he In North

Frank is correct in calling that region Southwestern Ontario. The region you are referring to is generally called Northern Ontario. May not make much sense, but that's the way it is. From Southwestern

Gene Green wrote: "Looking at a Youngstown Steel Door Co. ad on the rear cover of the June 17, 1937 issue of Railway Age shows PMcK&Y USRA single-sheathed box car number S-81290 before and after

I am not near my library, so I am winging this from memory. InterMountain was provided photos and documention for B&O class P-31c bulkhead flat cars. Further, I believe the B&O class P-25d bulkhead

Prototype B&O W-7's had Duryea underframes, so the Accurail triple bay offset side hopper is not quite right. I did not help with that one. Nor the 1956 Athearn quad

Gene Green wrote: Gene, rebuilding these cars normally used modern sheet steel sides, as in the case of these PMcK&Y cars and many others. The new sides did not need diagonal truss members but

Gene, Martin Lofton's article about USRA rebuilds in Sept 1989 RMC shows a series of pictures for a Rock Island rebuild, they did not use the truss members only the frame/floor and the ends.

Looking at a Youngstown Steel Door Co. ad on the rear cover of the June 17, 1937 issue of Railway Age shows PMcK&Y USRA single-sheathed box car number S-81290 before and after rebuilding. If it

Does anyone make a Duryea underframe conversion kit? Or is the best thing to fake it by extending the coupler pockets? Rich Orr

Frank, you most mean South Eastern Ontario? SW has only the CN along the 11 highway and the CP along the 17 highway...or are the roads the other way around? The only two E/W roads anyway. One is along

Eric Neubauer's book _Philadelphia & Reading Freight Cars: 1900 to 1914_ has drawings and photos of a similar Pressed Steel box car built in 1901 for the Reading, as well as many other contemporary

Some shots on E-bay of interest tonight: - COSX 823 and partial view of an automobile boxcar - auction 200246244737 and 200265616565 - some machines for tracking freight cars - what's the story?

Westerfield is working on a kit for a HO scale model of the 50 ton Summers ore car - used by DSS&A, Soo, DM&N, D&IR (later DM&IR). Cyril Durrenberger

Curt, Lot 8362, 52500-52749 (52000-52499 were twin PS-3s built in 1953). Regards, Ed Hawkins

Anyone know the Pullman Standard Job # for the CRR PS-3 3 bay hoppers; 52000 series, built 1958? Curt Fortenberry

I'm curious as to whether southwestern Ontario was an exceptional case to the "standard" distribution ratios given for the US as a whole and Canada as a whole, given the presence of the CASO/NYC and

While I will admit that I am somewhat glad that Walthers is producing these 70 ton cars, I really keep hoping that someone would mass-produce a 50 ton steel ore car, a much more common car in the

Hi Brian, I'll have to check the original drawings when I return home next weekend. For last week and this I'm looking at scanned (and poorly at that) images of the drawings from my current

Bob - The Erie car was built by Pressed Steel Car Co. circa 1902. I have the builder's photo but can't locate it at the moment. It was a standard design they used for about 3 years. The trucks are

More info on the M&St.L cars here: http://www.midcontinent.org/collectn/woodfrt/mstl4570.html Dennis