I need to learn to read all the messages before responding to any message. Much of what I said below was said [written] sooner and better by Dennis Storzek in message 81036. I apologize for

The freight bills of materials I have seen show that the railroads specified journal box lids as a separate item. That means, I believe, that the same truck side frame might have one style journal

If you do want to drill the stainless steel calipers, the carbide drills from Drill City will do the job. I recently adapted 6" digital calipers to my lathe and mill to give be digital readouts, and

Hello: Wondering if anyone can offer information and/or photos of the following three tanks cars listed in the 1954 OER? FMYX 101, 102 and 103. Per the Offical Equipment Register: Report movement

Jim, I forgot to put the M&StL number series in my post they were in the 64501 series. There are photos of almost all the second hand cars bought around 1940 (Like the one on RR-pictures), but nothing

Steve, Journal lids were often not manufactured by the foundry that cast the trucks, but were a specialty onto themselves. Different railroads could, and did, order different style lids. In later

All, FYI Jim Brewer Glenwood MD

My note regarding the disparity between the axle lengths on the IMRC 70-Ton trucks has generated a large number of opinions. It has been quite interesting to read the many posts regarding this

Brian and Stephan: Richard Hendrickson or Tahoe's Brian Leppert will likely weigh in, but when I asked Brian some time ago whether the Tahoe spring plankless double truss truck represented the same

Brian: I wish I were more expert on this matter myself but among the differences to notice in these trucks consider the shape of the journal boxes and the shape of the journal lids. All these trucks

Richard Hendrickson has a brief article on panel side hoppers, with a number of helpful photos, in the just-released issue of Model Railroad Hobbyist: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/ It's free

Not to mention that each conical hole has its own axial center, and the presumption in the whole scenario is that the the opposing axial centers are perfectly coincident, perfectly parallel to the

I need an opinion and I know I'll get one from the list :-). I'm going through my box of trucks to try to organize it, and I have a variety of Spring-plankless trucks. I have P2k/Walthers spring

Ted Schnepf (a Naperville vendor regular) did the artwork for a recent M-53 O scale resin wagontop. You will find most of the ingredients you need in that decal set. Proper fonts and heralds in

Two thoughts, Clark 1) I have identified secondhand hopper candidates with their cubic capacities, other dimensions to confirm. With B&O, I have a lot of this to do. It takes about 3 hours to skim

I'm looking for a photo or at least someone to tell me what model in close (stand in) for an NYC 2 bay hopper sold to Hyman-Michaels in 1942 or before with the dimensions of: Inside Length 30' width

Like many other aspects of our hobby, this is just another instance where we are again faced with givens and druthers. Measuring the inside diameter between the points of the conical bearing holes

It strikes me that side-to-side play in our model trucks (HO at least) would cause the car to move up and down on one side or alternating up and down movements on each side. Just how notieable that

Just a thought. I have watched plain bearing wheelsets move back and forth laterally while these trucks were in motion. So maybe a little side play is actually quite prototypical, or does this

Sounds like it would be easier - and less error-prone - to just buy one of their sample sets use as gages. KL