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MDT reefers

I believe these 34-36 foot MDT cars were given "repair steel underframes" (steel center sills, bolsters and needle beams) starting in the teens and continuing into the 1920's. They later (post 1923)

By lrkdbn · #90578 ·

Re: standard framing sizes for house car construction?

Scott, do you have a photo of this car? Any idea how long it lasted and if it wss used in interchange service? Todd Horton ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Wed,

By Todd Horton · #90577 ·

Re: standard framing sizes for house car construction?

Scott, that's not an ex-Southern car; IIRC, all of the Southern XM single door box cars built between WW I and the late 1920s were 36' cars with truss rod underframes, and they were followed by

By Richard Hendrickson · #90576 ·

Re: Terry Wegman PFE R-30-16 conversion sets

JP can you please contact me off list. I tried to respond off list to your message but it was blocked, Jerry Glow http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/decals

By jerryglow2 · #90575 ·

Re: now taking orders for IC decals

OMG - I sent the older working file. It didn't even have the Mainline slogan. It should be correct now. http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/IC_l.jpg Jerry

By jerryglow2 · #90574 ·

Re: standard framing sizes for house car construction?

fishbelly underframe... Hi Scott, Your friend really needs a Car Builder's Cyc from the early part of the century for the construction details, one of the old Train Shed Cyclopedia series might do.

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #90573 ·

Re: Terry Wegman PFE R-30-16 conversion sets

J.P. Of course, the other way to correct the error is to simply change the color of the UP medallion to black and white while retaining everything else "as is" on the model. Better yet, for modelers

By Ed Hawkins · #90572 ·

standard framing sizes for house car construction?

A friend wants to scratchbuild a model of LOP&G 601, a 40-foot boxcar that smells to me like it could a former Southern Rwy box. Not that I'm an expert on those, mind you. He sent me a copy of a

By D. Scott Chatfield · #90571 ·

Re: Grand Truck Western (GTW) Box Cars

Are you sure? It seems to have diagonal panel roof and a 10'6 interior height, seems aq little more recent than '37. Staffan Ehnbom

By Staffan Ehnbom <staffan.ehnbom@...> · #90570 ·

Re: Grand Truck Western (GTW) Box Cars

The 40' plug door car has early Dreadnaught ends. Obviously rebuilt from a single door 10 panel '37AAR boxcar. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

By Andy Carlson · #90569 ·

Re: Grand Truck Western (GTW) Box Cars

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Ah, but it was in the ORPTE. My 1943 issue shows GTW 11490-11499 as all-steel 50'6" (IL) BX cars. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #90568 ·

Re: Grand Truck Western (GTW) Box Cars

Bob, GTW 11498 is part of a 15 car group numbered 11484-11499. According to the notes, box express cars in this series had small doors on each end for passage from one car to another, except: cars

By thomas christensen · #90567 ·

Re: Grand Truck Western (GTW) Box Cars

GTW 576631 was in the 576000-576999 series, all of which were in auto engine service (note the stenciling which reads "specially equipped for automobile engine loading"). There were 50 cars in

By Richard Hendrickson · #90566 ·

Grand Truck Western (GTW) Box Cars

Can anyone provide information about these three GTW boxcars? The 50-ft former automobile car appears to be in express service at the time of the photo. The steel underframe car also appears to have

By rwitt_2000 · #90565 ·

track oilers

In 1941 the M&StL railroad made a weed killing outfit that put oil on the ground, it had covers over the rails. I personally have seen this done on the Milwaukee railroad in Iowa. It sure was a mess

By ron christensen · #90564 ·

Terry Wegman PFE R-30-16 conversion sets

Hello, people: Several squibs have appeared in the last week or two on this subject, which I have read with interest. To answer Bruce Smith's query, the upcoming Intermountain later R-30 series being

By JP Barger · #90563 ·

Re: Book sale

Schuyler- Thanks a bunch. You just cost me / saved me a bunch of money!! Charlie Vlk Sharing this information: Indiana University Press is having a sale, 2,500 titles at up to 80% off. Orders

By Charlie Vlk · #90562 ·

ACL flondola? glatcar? (was Re: 40 ft gons)

Tim, The correct answer is yes, this is the car the Tichy model is trying to represent. I think the Tichy model is very, very close. The big problem with the Tichy representation is that the

By golden1014 · #90561 ·

Re: ACL flondola? glatcar? (was Re: 40 ft gons)

Tim, The short answer is yes and yes. The end sills should be flat, not a channel and the u/f shouldn't be as deep as the Tichy. See MM May 1984 Tom Christensen

By thomas christensen · #90560 ·

Re: now taking orders for IC decals

Jerry, Is the two different sizes in the word CENTRAL intentional? Dennis

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #90559 ·

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