Schuyler Larrabee wrote: http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index_view.cfm?photoid=- 135752854&id=55 "Seems (seams?) to me that the challenge isn't so much the raised roof; it's the rivet

Nice rivets. But what I find interesting is the modification to the brake platform supports to accommodate the higher brake wheel location. I am not sure that my short, fat, fingers have the

http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index_view.cfm?photoid=-135752854&id=55 Seems (seams?) to me that the challenge isn't so much the raised roof; it's the rivet pattern on the sides. ACR

There was an article by Brian Pate in Canadian Railway Modeller some years back on how he modelled one of these cars. CN raised the roof on these cars in late 1946 according to ORER entries. Ian

389222185&id=55 Steve, can you explain how to search the National Archives of Canada web site for freight car photos like the one above on line? In other words how did you find this link? (it's a

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