Richard, My midwest reference was aimed at focusing on midwest railroads' needs. If universal across the States and Canada . . . great . . . even better. Al

cars... sure a info...) marks parent/close other 6999, 18699 Hi Frank The NEB&W web site lists the DW&P 400800-401549 series as double sheathed, built by Haskell & Barker in 1917. They were

Tony, I agree on the Lt Wt issue. They experimented with 0.075" thk HSLA steels just prior to the war and then re-upped the ga. again. HSLA (then called high tensile) steel was used in side-sheets

Frank Greene wrote: Nope to this one. Cars were still being built out of simple, plain-carbon steel. Certainly design had improved, with far smaller center sills once the ARA design became

Andy, That could be, but?I spoke directly with Keren, his wife, and she knew what I wanted--freight car air?hoses. I have been waiting for them since Anaheim. I have sent Jimmy an email asking for

No mystery here. After WW II box car traffic increasingly shifted toward lighter, bulkier loads, notably auto parts, for which 50' cars were better suited. This trend was reinforced by the

I believe there was a tariff published post war for low weight, high volume articles like washing machines, boxed cereal, and so on. There had to be a 30,00 pound threshold reached for this tariff

cobrapsl@... wrote: HiTech lists 3 part numbers: 6036 and 6037 are for freight cars (without and with "bungee" hanger straps, respectively) and 6034 is diesel MU hoses. All 3 types are

al.kresse wrote: The trend didn't start after WWII, it had been ongoing since the time of Stephenson, Allen, et al (i.e., 24' all wood cars to 36' wood or steel frame cars to 40' all steel cars).

Al, How about customer preferences? On the Western Pacific (admittedly not a mid-western or eastern road), 50' boxcars became the norm by the mid to late 1950s due to customer demand. WP 50-footers

Folks, Do we have the short list of key reasons (such as market and technology) for the shifting of "standard" NEW and REBUILT steel box cars becoming 50-ft vs previously 40-ft box cars after WW2 and

Paul, Jim just released his FREIGHT CAR HOSES this week. Jim released his DIESEL MU HOSES at last summer's NHRA show. Could that be the problem? The freight car hoses I got from Jim at Naperville look

Hi all, I have a friend that needs instructions for Sunshine kit 78.7 which is the Soo/WC Saw Tooth box car. The kit he purchased contains incorrect instructions (we believe) which were for SS CB&Q,

Dennis Storzek said, The problem appears to be they are designed to mount on the "standard" overly wide coupler boxes... even as we're trying to push the envelope and bring the size of the coupler

Frank, I realize what the Hi-Tech web site shows about mounting the hoses, but the ones I recieved a couple of weeks ago do NOT look like the ones on the site. Thus my comment that I have not yet

Hi Al, Both market and technology brought about the 50' box car. In a nut shell "The big railroads wanted to haul more goods and reduce the tonnage they had to haul. It took 125 40 foot

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I was also "brown away". However, after experimenting with them for the last two weeks, I have to say there?are some issues. The big issue is their attachment... What I am presently trying to?do is

Hi everyone, I needed some replacement decals from F&C for their 1923 BAR cars. They sent me 6 sheets total. This was more than enough for the 2 cars I had to finish. I have 2 unused sheets, 2

cobrapsl@... wrote: <http://www.hitechdetails.com/Hydra_Hose_How_To.html> -- Frank Greene Memphis, TN