Since the car was originally built with 10'0" IH and 4/5 square- cornered Dreadnaught ends, a Red Caboose auto car kit with square- cornered ends would be a good starting point (if you can find

kits. The built At one time someone (Pikestuff?) offered a sprue of solid bulges that fit the Athearn twin car. Tichy has USRA hoppers rebuilt with these panel sides. Ed

CN Lines Vol. 6/4 has a couple of photos of interest. One is of CV 41099, built by Pressed Steel Car Company in March, 1929, and is also on the National Archives of Canada/CN Images of Canada

Douglas Harding wrote: "If I remember correctly Stan Rydarowicz offers resin parts for modifying a 2-bay hopper with these panels. He even cuts the openings in the car and sells a kit." To clarify,

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If I remember correctly Stan Rydarowicz offers resin parts for modifying a 2-bay hopper with these panels. He even cuts the openings in the car and sells a kit. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Snoqualmy(sp?) Close, Snoqualmie. Steve Haas Less than 10 miles west of there, WA

I'd like to add the "C&O for progress" to the covered hopper I mentioned the other night. This would be, afaik, the earlier "steam" version of that herald, not the later more modernized version with

Mark, I was up in Seattle last year and took some photos of a reefer (unknown type to me) at the Snoqualmy(sp?) railroad museum that has a Royal F brake regulator. I posted them in a folder in the

Marty, I don't know how official this terminology is, but MoPac had some twin hopper cars rebuilt in 1936 with what the MP diagram specifies as "Paneled Sides." The diagram further states that some

I am doing this based on the 1955 ORER. I am listing the top 5 most populous cars based on cubic capy listed in the recap of data in the back of each RR section. I am listing the top 20 railroads and

Marty, There was, IIRC, only one supplier of these, Union Metal Products which later became part of Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Co., so I would suspect what they called them was their

Can anyone point to a definitive industry (not model railroad) term for "blister panels" - the bulging panels used on some hopper cars??? I've heard the term "offset panels" used but can't find a

Mark these are in the Car Builders Cyclopedia 1940 Sec.13 page 1072-1074. Regards, Mark Morgan

Forgot to add the car shown (by the way, the pre-restoration pics of the cars with four-digit numbers and the finished restoration of 43022 are the same car). 43022 had it's roof raised a four inches

The car shown in the link is an HO scale resin kit made by F&C (originally sold by Steam Shack, currently available from F&C). Here are some photos of the ends - it's usually easier to locate photos

There was a typo in the link: http://mopac51.tripod.com/id5.html Here is the direct link to the

Marty, The picture was of a car model, in the new Yahoo weathering group. The difference in this car model, was that the car had Youndstown doors, but the end of the car in the photo could not be

wrote: a however. ... Hi Mike The file you refer to is on the "Steam Era Freight Car Analysis" Yahoo site, an overflow list for STMFC. I'll send it to you off list. Best wishes, Larry

Where did you see the picture? If it's online a link would help. I don't have my reference material at work but that number sounds like it's one of the c 1928 cars built for the Central Vermont