Assuming the ends of the cutters are flat, this is the item... SKay

Doesn't seem so high to me when you look at it as 135+ north and 135+ south, come close to possibly match the time-tables. Also the GN passed traffic to the SP at K Falls, that came out of

Folks, The Mission Model bending jig looks really nice but $90 puts it out of may range for a specialty tool. Sometime back one of the magazines ran an article where a piece of sheet plastic

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: 1944 to 1952, according to Wikipedia. (with the usual Wikipedia caveat). Frank Valoczy Vancouver, BC

I have some steam era along with more modern era rolling stock currently listed on eBay http://stores.ebay.com/Espee-F-5 As always, thanks for looking! Rob Sarberenyi

I could be wrong, but it seems to me that CRP was set up around '52 in an effort to put some assets of the CNJ out of the reach (well, that was the idea) of NJ tax authorities. A lot of rolling

The tax dodge was incorporated into the plot of a Paul Newman movie, The Young Philadelphians, where he saves a client big bucks by shuffling some business from NJ to PA taxes. Tim O'Connor

Al Daumann wrote: That high an amount seems impossible, but I'm quoting a traffic study from 1951. Even the 275/day at Bieber sounds high to me. I'd believe 1500 or so cars daily at Redding,

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Tony,   Thanks for the info.  So if I'm reading you right and assuming Tim's data (about 25000 cars per 3 months or about 275 cars / day through Bieber), then the total SP traffic would be about 10

Al Daumann wrote: Redding has the complication that although SP moved most traffic on the Cascade Line, diverging at Black Butte, it did continue in 1947 to move a fair proportion (maybe a

Picked up a flyer at a local train show today that True Line Trains is doing 8-Hatch reefers, due in 2010. They are mentioned in the TLT website new but just artwork renderings. The 8 hatch reefers

Tim,   Very interesting data to me, since I'm modeling a freelanced railroad that interchanges with both the GN and WP at Bieber in the late 1940s.  If your extrapolation is correct, the 24,700 cars

Tim, I've seen (on paper) and ignored the seam scraper in the past. Looking at it again after your reccomendation made me look again. I think I have a use for it right now on my bench. Jim

Frank Valoczy wrote: Probably means nothing in terms of Frank's abolishment/divestiture, but I photographed a CRP 70-ton flatcar at Colfax, CA, waiting in an eastbound freight in January 1959. The

Tim, I made several mistakes: not finding the HH Copeland report, a definiative source, was #1. Typing w/o first refreshing my memory was clearly #2. My bad. Dave Nelson

One of my favorite tools is this "seam scraper" from MicroMark. Actually, I use it as a REAMER. It is very sharp and pointed, and it can ream out very small holes and cuts through Delrin

Dave Nelson, I hope you're paying attention! :-) The list below is 247 cars, just 1/100 of the numbers (00-99). If the distribution of numbers is uniform (I know, fat chance) that would be 247*100 or

I believe AMB makes an acrylic grab iron bending jig with multiple sizes. Also Tichy includes jigs of various kinds in their kits such as ladder drilling jigs. My workspace is littered with jigs of

The flush end-nippers that Klein once made, and that PPE still supplies are the handiest off all tools for removing the bulk of cast- on molded detailing. By removing most of the "overburden" with