Hello...Could someone please direct me to a source of prototype drawings/blueprints for the AAR 70-ton, 53'-6" flat car? Thanks for your help. Ed Loizeaux, 1-650-962-1577

Ed... Copies of drawing and photo of Erie 53' 6" flat from 1946 CBC are being sent directly to you at _Loizeaux@... (mailto:Loizeaux@...) Richard Bale Carlsbad, CA

Bill,         Keep researching & writing, there are a lot of us waiting for the publication Hope all turns out well in Florida. Fred Freitas ________________________________ To:

Regarding the color of underframes, trucks, wheels etc., the late Terry Metcalfe does, indeed, say in his UP frt car book that that UP box cars were painted with Synthetic Red throughout the Forties

Bill - And leave no tern unstoned. Best of luck. - Al

In a message dated 6/28/2009 10:09:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rossiters@... writes: I think before you build anything whether it's a cleaning area, an industry or a freight car

Bob, You are correct.? It is a late '60's nearly brown paint color.? The PRR freight car color shifted dramatically towards brown after the adoption of synthetic pigments and continued to move

A great number of really well done books about freight cars have been published in the last few years. The prices of many of these books are high enough that some folks must give the matter long and

Good point, Tim. Maybe the next frontier in model trucks is to make the side frames without journal box lids and supply several different types of lids which would snap in place. Yeah, I know,

snip Also, some of them had double truss snip One important correction- All Self-Aligning Spring Plankless trucks are double truss. Also, as far as I've observed, the lower chords are open at

As some of you know, I am in the process of moving to Clearwater, FL and will be out of touch via email after June 30 until I arrive there in early August. Work on the FGE/WFE/BRE book continues. I

Also, journal box lids were a common third party item, so buyers could order their favorite lids of the appropriate size for anyone's truck. So we have to put on our "lid filters" when trying to

I know Richard, and I'm sure you have more information than I do. But Terry writes "... throughout the Forties and Fifties" in his book -- Now since I have a photo of a newly painted car in the 1950's

No, though they all look similar. Side frame configuration varied a bit from one manufacturer to another, and of course journal box size varied according to whether the trucks were of forty,

For anyone who's interested, these CBCs are available from online used book dealers. A couple of weeks ago I perused offerings, all 1940 and 1943 CBCs were $300 or more, except one 1943 CBC listed at

Bill - Depending on where you live you may be near a library that carries many of the books listed. The NMRA library in Chattanooga would certainly have most of them as would railroad museum

Tim O'Connor wrote: Better cut back on the caffeine, Tim. I was interested to see whatever photo it was. But if you see such a query as a challenge to your credibility, that speaks for

FOR SALE: AAR Pamphlet MD-4 "Rules Governing the Loading of Pipe on Open Top Cars" effective June 15, 1951 This original pamphlet has 106 pages of instructions with numerous detailed diagrams

So join it. What's it going to cost you other than a little time to apply? Jerry Glow

Peter, what you've gleaned from the New Haven car diagrams is more confusing than helpful, and you're not going to find the information you want on line. You need to spend a bit of time studying