We recently had a discussion on wheels, and why the outside of the wheel rim is often shiny. One reason given was self guarded frogs. I just found another! On page 42 of Four Way's West "California

Oops should have mentioned it's the wood car. It says with GSC trucks. I keep getting mixed up on what these cars should be for my era but it was a sale item and I picked up a dec and undec. I

The prototype 46' ore cars imported by W&R Imports were very common in Park City, UT.  They were used to ship ore from the Silver King Ore House and the loading docks in downtown Park City.  Of all

Jon, I don't have specs for the riveted REA cars built 1955-1957 by General American, but the welded REA express reefers built by AC&F (Branchline model) had 33" wheels. Regards Ed Hawkins

Jon, Being that these were "passenger" equipped, I would think that 36" wheels would be correct. Chuck Hladik

_____ From: On Behalf Of Jon Miller Subject: Re: [STMFC] Walthers REA Express reefer Quick question. Walthers REA express reefer, trucks. What should the wheel size be? It appears they are

AAAAARRRRRRGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Or... could these be a ploy to boost sales? (just kidding) He would decide to retire on the one year when the SPH&TS San Luis Obispo meet is on the same weekend! :-( Tim

I'd heard rumors, but it looks like it's official - 2009 will be Martin Lofton's final Naperville meet. That's according to the preliminary meet letter from Martin soliciting speakers that just

I have an overhead photo showing the interiors of a number of D&RGW GS gondolas in Pueblo. None of the cars shows an interior slope where the floor meets the sides. None of these cars is from the 1928

Awhile back on this list, I mentioned that the D&RGW GS gons with the little slope sheets at the bottom of the sides were 46 feet. Richard Hendrickson replied that there were 40-foot cars also.

Quick question. Walthers REA express reefer, trucks. What should the wheel size be? It appears they are 33". I am changing to .088 so wonder if I should put in 36"? Jon Miller AT&SF For me time

Good grief! Thanks for waking be up here, Bill. In my surprise at the CPR boxcar and the L&A boxcar the obvious was clearly overlooked. And one would think the height of what is obviously a hopper car

Does anyone have a timeframe when the Western Fruit/Fruit Growers Express/Burlington refrigerator car lettering went from the heavy squared serif lettering to a gothic style? I'm guessing late 50's

Does Howard Ameling still have his photograghic collection of freight car negatives? How does one get ahold of him down in Florida? I noticed some are on CD through the NKP folks. Al Kresse

Jace, I checked my old decal Champ and Walthers diagrams. MP 7126 is the Champ MP gondola lettering set. So doubt any real prototype info was used in building this model. The car sounds like it

I was sirprised that that big old hand wheel on the car in the photo with the Sunshine mini-kit instruction was not in RP Cyc 10 the air brake issue. Clark Propst

I have a diagram book showing 2 types of composite gondolas: a USRA one and one with bracing in all panels. Unfortunately they do not show or state safety appliances but all had 5 digit numbers with

I really appreate the e-mags including SCL Modeler. I like your offering it in hi-res - it was only a 2 min D/L on my Comcast connection and it extra definition is sppreciated esp since my club is now

At the recent Chicago O scale show I picked up a couple of really well-built cars, probably from the 1950's, a Borden (Chicago) milk car with full underbody detail and a MP composite gondola. It is

Hello Everyone, The brake system on the helium car looks like a passenger car type. The universal valve might be out of sight behind the brake cylinder. John Riba