Ian, You are correct sir, there are no tie down cables. The kit includes a spool of thread, but having tried thread before (look at the PRR flat with the pole load) I thought of using wire from the

The original posting was about a car in a picture of a flood that appeared to be 50' long. Behind it were several boxcars with windows in them that the poster evidently thought might have been early

Charles and Doug, Very informative posts Thank you very much, Clark

The Walthers caboose is a generic car that looks like a lot of cabooses. Hence the confusion. See the info in the lastest RMJ. Clark Mike Brock wrote:

Mike Brock asked: I noticed a new wood caboose in my hobby shop yesterday. A 30' Walthers caboose, cupola on the end, 3 windows ahead of it. Lettered variously, it looks like a photo of a CB&Q [ I'm

Friends, Jeff Koeller is attempting to contact Robert Oom, if anyone here would let Robert know it would be much appreciated. Jeff can be contacted at: rkjmk@... Regards & Thank You, Guy

MOFWCABOOSE@... writes: Could someone update me on this thread? I've been deleting the references to the CB&Q cars, since that isn't my area of interest, but I am very interested in the

I read they switched to polyester textiles, and became Klinger Pants. ba-dum-bump. Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Sterling, Massachusetts

Mike Brock wrote Yes, they are incredibly overpriced. Barring that, I will send you a scan separately of a 3-window CB&Q caboose that is vaguely similar to the model. The biggest difference for me

Doug Harding, in an interesting and informative post, mentioned: Now THERE'S a name for a paint company. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA

I noticed a new wood caboose in my hobby shop yesterday. A 30' Walthers caboose, cupola on the end, 3 windows ahead of it. Lettered variously, it looks like a photo of a CB&Q [ I'm not saying that it

Marshalltown, Ia had a Diamond Paint and Varnish plant, also known as Diamond Products, Inc and later merged into Diamond Vogel Paints, served by the M&StL. This could have been one industry receiving

Thanks for pointing this out, Russ. I also looked at the drawing for what I assumed from the title would be the CP's USRA SS Clone box cars. I was quite surprised when I found a drawing of a USRA

As near as I can tell, the round objects are nuts for truss rods. David Soderblom Baltimore MD Shawn Beckert

ORER for May 1903 shows CB&Q 42138 to be a furniture car with an inside length of 50'3-5/16", so the camera isn't fooling us. As for the MP cars, they definately are not cabooses as the same source

The modern way of extracting the oil is to put the seed in to H2SO4, dissolving every but the oil. Separate the oil from the acid and use it. Dump the rest. Been doing that with corn since the

In a message dated 6/19/02 7:25:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time, rhendrickson@... writes: << First, Evans developed the double-deck auto loading rack ca. 1932 and it immediately doubled the

The Sunshine Data Sheet says they were painted a box car red overall-- would that include the trucks? Scott Pitzer

The rules pertaining to1952 were issued as 7 booklets MD1 thru MD7 Each booklet was targeted at a specific industrial group: MD-1 Loading of Steel MD-2 Loading of Machinery MD-3 Loading of