Hello all, On page 67 of the Great Northern Pictorial volume 6, there is a picture of some GN F units bringing a train into Conrad, MT during July 1950. As is frustratingly often the case to

I cannot imagine?why, for any reason, you would?want to use something with no rigidity, like copper wire, ?for?a grab iron. Let's get real, model railroad cars get handled, even in amd out of display

McMaster-Carr <http://www.mcmaster.com/#> is a good source. On the home page, scroll to "Raw Materials" and find "Wire". Then select the material you want. They have stainless, copper, carbon stel,

Another option, borrowed from someone who posted on one of the yahoogroups I read, is to use copper wire. It is available in a large number of sizes, and has the advantage of being very easy to

I prefer phosphor brass wire as from Tichy/CMA (and probably others). Its readily available and more workable IMHO. Jerry Glow

In a message dated 5/6/2009 3:27:17 PM Central Daylight Time, cobrapsl@... writes: The originating post was clearly regarding HO scale. Point well taken, Paul. Just pointing out that Rod

In a message dated 5/6/2009 2:44:54 PM Central Daylight Time, cobrapsl@... writes: If .013 is the smallest size you can get, it is not even good for UF brake piping, being about twice oversize

Need ACR (Alternate Center Rivet) cars? Think Archer rivets. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510)

Staring at me in the pile of car kits to build is a Rail Shops' carbon black covered hopper. .009" stainless steel wire is supplied in the kit for grabirons and brake rigging. Has anyone here any

There would be lots of home road cars in storage, becoming weathered and rusted. The wheels would be getting rust on them as well as the track underneath the cars. The RIP track would be getting

A.T. Kott wrote: The place to check would be the Pullman Library at the Illinois Railroad Museum in Union. They have the great bulk of the Pullman drawing files, and have a good chunk of it

Al - If you want a copy of my measurements for the 1948-era car, send me a private message with your snail mail address and I will send you a copy (3 pages). I even have a couple of detailed photos

If you don't have shippers and receivers to ship then a RR has to find places to store cars until the economy comes back. It's quite an under taking working with the Operating department. Storage

Tim, I am not sure if it is overspray or a poor scan of an already poor slide. There is a photo in the the Youngstown Steel Door ad pages in CBCyc, 1946 edition I believe, of their sliding door as

of economic downturn? Would there be more cars, less cars, or no change? Kurt, I am not sure how the yards would look, but over my years living in the mid-west I have noticed in rural parts there

I recently drove down to Indy on I-69.  There were east-west double tracks with one track filled with TTX auto-rack flats as far as the eye could see in one direction.  There were a lot of empty

not a great photo but it looks like this car got some yellow overspray on the ends http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370196788723 Tim O'Connor

Kurt Laughlin wrote: Dunno about yards but the ICC data on percent of home road house cars on home rails showed a clear relationship between more home road cars at home when economic times were bad

For freight cars not being used there is a need for storage tracks. It is very likely that part of a yard would be used for storage but only for that owning railroad's freight cars. Sometimes cars

To expand on what has been said, Storage yards full of HOME road cars. - in some cases, older cars, ready for retirement/scrap Modeled by including scrapping scenes, white-lined cars, trees growing