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Re: Tide Water tank car, TWOX 3050

Tony is correct about this. In fact, the internal diaphragms were shaped exactly like tank ends - because, in fact, that's what they were. IIRC, someone a couple of days ago assumed that the

By Richard Hendrickson · #85485 ·

Re: M-53 (was Athearn Blue Box kits discontinued)

Patience, Tim - - though Lord knows we've all been waiting patiently for this for a very long time. One is coming, with the tooling far enough along that a model is almost certain to materialize,

By Richard Hendrickson · #85484 ·

Re: Athearn Blue Box kits discontinued

Just so, Tim, as I think was sufficiently obvious. Athearn's recent steam era freight car models are excellent, and I can claim some small credit for some of them, having provided photos and

By Richard Hendrickson · #85483 ·

Re: Tide Water tank car, TWOX 3050

I'd bet that the insertion of new bulkheads was done by removing the rivets on one end head and then re-riveting it after bulkheads were installed. One reason railroads liked riveted construction

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #85482 ·

Re: USRA composite gondolas

Richard Hendrickson wrote: As so often happens <g>, Richard has a hard time remembering the SP freight car fleet. I would call your attention to the data in the table on page 68 of my gondola

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #85481 ·

Re: M-53 (was Athearn Blue Box kits discontinued)

I wish to second that motion! Mark Morgan

By Mark · #85480 ·

Re: M-53 (was Athearn Blue Box kits discontinued)

Bob I don't know, and I didn't know they planned to do the M-53, but good grief, why can't we get a good high quality plastic kit? If Wright Trak does it, that makes what - 4 - different vendors

By Tim O'Connor · #85479 ·

Re: Athearn Blue Box kits discontinued

--- In STMFC@..., Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote: Post-1960 modelers have been > deluged with excellent models from Athearn, while pre-1950 modelers > have been largely ignored...

By gn3397 <heninger@...> · #85478 ·

Re: Athearn Blue Box kits discontinued

Richard Hendrickson tosses out the baby w/ the bathwater... :-) I suspect you really intended that comment to refer specifically to the old Blue Box kits and not to more recent Athearn models?? Or

By Tim O'Connor · #85477 ·

Re: Athearn Blue Box kits discontinued

Gentlemen, try to see the bright side, we now own real collector's items. Wait about 10 years and divest them on e-bay for some ridiculous price! Fred Freitas

By Frederick Freitas <prrinvt@...> · #85476 ·

Re: USRA composite gondolas (long, but illuminating)

Well, Ray, with all due respect, I wouldn't call this a definitive study; not even close. I'll grant that I overlooked a couple of groups of USRA cars that survived into the 1950s, but what

By Richard Hendrickson · #85475 ·

Re: Athearn Blue Box kits discontinued

Sic transit gloria mundi. The blue box bow-wows should have been discontinued twenty years ago or more, as vastly better products came on the market to replace them. Their only virtue was that

By Richard Hendrickson · #85474 ·

Athearn Blue boxes?

As Brian Carlson notes: Yep. Brion's...no last name...message violated about 5 STMFC rules. Oh, heck...guess I'll have to go down to Moderate Jail again. I hate to have to go down there. Never seem

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #85473 ·

Re: USRA composite gondolas (long, but illuminating)

Thanks for the information Tim. I'll pull them off my list. I knew that the Wabash had WE gons, but wasn't sure of the numbers. I have a photo of one of those cars, and didn't include that series in

By Ray Breyer · #85472 ·

Re: USRA composite gondolas (long, but illuminating)

Ray Breyer wrote Ray those Wabash cars were World War II War Emergency gondolas. Wabash did own some near copies of USRA gondolas but they had fishbelly underframes: 7000-9049, 10000-10124 and

By Tim O'Connor · #85468 ·

blue box

The good thing about these kits and the inexpensive Athearn locos was they allowed newcomers to get into the scale hobby at an affordable price, comparable to a "train set" from a company like Model

By ed_mines · #85471 ·

GodFatherRails.com

This new tribute web site has color photos from the early '50s. One nice photo of a gondola. Ed

By ed_mines · #85470 ·

Re: NYC diagram book

Rich- This was an old post. The same book (or one that's similar) is online somewhere (I think it's from the man with the CASO web site). I have that reprint, sans cover and the first few pages.

By ed_mines · #85469 ·

Re: freight car kit discounts

I recently bought 7 for the price of 3 from them through the mail. Ed

By ed_mines · #85978 ·

Re: Athearn Blue Box kits discontinued

Ignoring the first parts of the message about business practice which are out of line here. I like many others started with Athearn Blue box kits as well as MDC, Front range, etc. In Buffalo we have

By Brian Carlson · #85466 ·

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