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Re: Heap Shields was Re: Re: Accurail Offset Twin

Can a limited run set of resin-cast parts be easily made off of soft tooling made off these brass model ends? Al Kresse

By water.kresse@... · #86520 ·

Re: Molded-on Grab Irons (was: Heap Shields)

Actually there used to be a tool that is ideal for removing molded-on grabs. I was lucky enough to get one about 30 years ago from Klein Tools. (I worked for an electrical distributor that carried

By StephenK · #86519 ·

Re: Heap Shields

Roy Hurlburt, then a member of the C&O Historical society made them . . . . way back in the 90s. They were offered through the Society. Al Kresse

By water.kresse@... · #86518 ·

Re: Heap Shields

Correct! .A.Premo

By Armand Premo · #86524 ·

Re: DT&I hopper in Tracy CA (was Re: Accurail Offset Twin)

Rich; Peters Creek is the one I am thinking of, and I also wonder if there was any link to the Westinghouse site and/or USSteel. Elden

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD · #86517 ·

Re: Heap Shields

Nope. They were made for the Athearn car. Al's parts are all from his kits.

By Tim O'Connor · #86516 ·

Re: Molded-on Grab Irons (was: Heap Shields)

That's a good one... for about the same price I've picked up a dozen stainless steel dental instruments with various shapes and sizes of cutting heads. They don't flex like the X-Acto blade does when

By Tim O'Connor · #86515 ·

Re: Molded-on Grab Irons (was: Heap Shields)

I tried a new method this week that works very well -- I used my 'fine' sprue nippers to remove ladder rungs from a box car ladder, including the bolt detail. Then I glued them in place as

By Tim O'Connor · #86514 ·

Re: Molded-on Grab Irons (was: Heap Shields)

Al, Micro-Mark makes a tool that you can use to remove cast-on ladders, grabs and other offending items without damaging the car bodies. I have the standard sized model and really does work! It is

By tmolsen@... · #86513 ·

Re: Strategic Reserves

Tim, The Casad Depot outside of New Haven is slowly turning into an industrial park. I believe the entire property will be turned over to the city or county within the next few years. Jason

By Jason C · #86512 ·

Molded-on Grab Irons (was: Heap Shields)

This may get me raided by the Prototype Police, but I don't mind clipping molded grab irons off an open-top car and replacing them with wire, providing the car body is dimensionally OK. I don't mind

By al_brown03 · #86511 ·

Re: Heap Shields

Westerfield.A Premo

By Armand Premo · #86510 ·

Re: Heap Shields

Andy Miller once found some resin castings that represented C&O "dreadnaught" style ribbed hopper car ends, that were made to fit the Athearn car. Anyone remember who made them? Tim O'Connor

By Tim O'Connor · #86509 ·

Re: Strategic Reserves

Here is another one, near the huge NYC classification yard at Selkirk. This facility was served by both D&H and NYC. Now it's just an 'industrial park' but I saw stockpiles of ingot material there in

By Tim O'Connor · #86508 ·

Re: Heap Shields was Re: Re: Accurail Offset Twin

cj riley wrote: I have a pair of these ends also. I don't know who originally produced them, though. Nice parts. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #86507 ·

Re: Heap Shields was Re: Re: Accurail Offset Twin

I still have several sets of brass castings of an entire end with heap shield that date back to perhaps the '70s or '80s designed for the Athearn hopper. I also have some plastic heap shield castings

By cj riley <cjriley42@...> · #86506 ·

Re: Need help identifying a tank car

Well, at least second hand, this is an ex-Monon car 1801-1804. Those of us who care about things thought that the SC&F radial 6000 gallon cars would make a decent stand in for these...with the high

By Michael Aufderheide · #86505 ·

Re: DT&I hopper in Tracy CA (was Re: Accurail Offset Twin)

By SUVCWORR@... · #86504 ·

Re: Need help identifying a tank car

I will add that a sizable number of STC cars were built during the first couple of years of tank car construction (approximately 1916-1918) with high running boards like this car, and I have

By Richard Hendrickson · #86503 ·

Re: Need help identifying a tank car

Frank Greene wrote: As Richard Hendrickson often says, this bolster is an unmistakeable spotting feature: it's Standard Tank Car Company's signature. Cars like this WERE built by STC with high

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #86502 ·

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