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Smoky Mountain Model Works To Do B&O Wagontop in S Scale!

Jim, wonderful news! Paul S.

By kensington3121 · #78204 ·

Re: Beef Trust

adrian hundhausen wrote: Among the lines absorbed by Armour by 1895 were Continental Fruit Express; the Goodell Line; Kansas City Fruit Express; Fruit Dealers Despatch; California Fruit Express;

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #78203 ·

Re: [SSPM] Next 2 S scale kits will be ... - underframe photos

I have posted photos, including underframes, of existing M-53, M-15NA, and M-15PD cars at www.flickr.com/photos/b_and_o_boxcars . The photos were taken at Parrish FL. The cars have since

By jc2fl · #78202 ·

Re: Beef Trust

Armour Armour Ref line Fruit Growers Exp Barbaroso Ref L Tropocana R Exp Kansas City F Ex

By Cyril Durrenberger · #78201 ·

Central Valley trucks (was Re: 5' wheelbase trucks for new West

Make sure nobody gets any pictures of Denny please! <G> I'd rather watch a last of it's kind steam era freight car (mandatory content) get torched than see any man in a speedo! Tim Barney

By tbarney2004 · #78200 ·

Re: [SSPM] Next 2 S scale kits will be ...

Jeff, Jim, M-53 and subclasses had the Duryea underframes. M-15K used the original underframe from the cars they were rebult from. In 1955 and 1956, they were again rebuilt with new underframes (or

By boyds1949 <E27ca@...> · #78199 ·

Re: Central Valley trucks (was Re: 5' wheelbase trucks for new West

Replacing wheels in CV trucks is pretty straight forward, but perhaps not a straight forward as one might wish. I have replaced CV wheels with Reboxx and some ball bearing wheels in perhaps 30 or so

By Denny Anspach <danspach@...> · #78198 ·

Re: Columbus Freight House

Man, that is so cool! The N&W track making a curved road crossing on the Cleveland Ave bridge above the yard. Neat! David in Orlando

By David Wiggs · #78197 ·

Re: [SSPM] Next 2 S scale kits will be ...

Jim, At this late date I have to assume you have already settled the question of whether the "B&O wagontop" will be an M-15k or an M-53. While these two cars look very similar, and still

By Jeff English · #78196 ·

Re: Steam Era Box Cars Yahoo Group?

Oops! My quick scanning again. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI user NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS

By Jon Miller <atsf@...> · #78195 ·

Re: Steam Era Box Cars Yahoo Group?

The group in question isn't the steam era freight car but the steam era box car, which does seem to be dead. Happy Model Railroading, Jim Krapf Modeling the CNJ L&S Div from Treichlers to Mauch Chunk

By thetrainman00 <thetrainman00@...> · #78194 ·

Re: Steam Era Box Cars Yahoo Group?

If you look at the lead page of the group it also says: Group for sharing photographs, drawings or other other documentation of steam era railroad box cars, i.e. box cars built before 1960. This is

By Don Burn · #78193 ·

Re: Central Valley trucks (was Re: 5' wheelbase trucks for new Westerfield ore car)

Gene Green wrote: I have done it. For the CV arch bar trucks I tested them on a Reboxx roll tester. Some of the CV arch bars had very good rolling characteristics. They went into my "tuned" pile. On

By Spen Kellogg <spenkellogg@...> · #78191 ·

Re: Steam Era Box Cars Yahoo Group?

Jon, I think you are confusing Steam Era Freight Cars (very active) for SteamEraBOXcars (dormant) Best regards, Charlie Charles Dean Shelbyville, Kentucky

By Charles Dean · #78190 ·

Re: Steam Era Box Cars Yahoo Group?

Wrong group, Jon. The stats you cite are for the Steam Era Freight Cars list. The question was about the Steam Era Boxcars list. Tom M. to be activity

By Tom Madden <tgmadden@...> · #78189 ·

Bitter Creek 5' wb. archbar trucks.

The following message was received from Jeff Stone at Bitter Creek models re: semiscale wheels in their trucks. Denny Begin forwarded message:

By Denny Anspach <danspach@...> · #78188 ·

Next 2 S scale kits will be ...

The next (2) S scale resin kits . in order of appearance . will be a B&O wagontop box (maybe with the Duryea underframe) and the SAL B7 "turtleback" roof box. All of the info required to CAD-model

By Jim King · #78187 ·

Re: Steam Era Box Cars Yahoo Group?

This group is far from inactive. Looking at my groups I see activity within 7 days is; 4 new members 100 new messages 9 new photos Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax,

By Jon Miller <atsf@...> · #78186 ·

Re: Steam Era Box Cars Yahoo Group?

I recently dropped my membership in that group. It sure does seem to be inactive. ,_._,___ Happy Model Railroading, Jim Krapf Modeling the CNJ L&S Div from Treichlers to Mauch Chunk during October

By thetrainman00 <thetrainman00@...> · #78185 ·

Re: Steam Era Box Cars Yahoo Group?

Ralph, My guess is it is inactive. No messages posted since 2004 (a total of 3 messages that year). Regards, Mitch Mercante

By Mitchell Mercante · #78184 ·

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