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Naperville

I also wanted to comment on this past Naperville and say I had a good time. The pace was a little less crammed than last year, and as others have said attendance seemed down a little from previous

By Brian Carlson · #94045 ·

Re: Naperville Images Posted

Dave the four photos between Stan pictures and Jeff Eggert's models are mine. I forgot to make labels. Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY prrk41361@... From: STMFC@...

By Brian Carlson · #94044 ·

Re: Warning Labels

Thank you Rob, great post. I've had a good experience with Polly Scale as well, using many of the precautions you described so thoroughly. When I first open a jar, I throw a half-dozen BBs in and

By gettheredesigns <rick@...> · #94043 ·

Re: Naperville Images Posted

Forgot to include the link http://www.pbase.com/dh30973/naperville10 Dave

By dh30973 · #94042 ·

Re: When did IC start modifying their 50' SS DD boxcars into single door cars?

http://mopac51.tripod wrote: Charlie, The cars were originally built by Mount Vernon in 1929 as IC 162401-162650. In circa 1942 the cars were re# to 40250-40499 as part of a massive system

By Ed Hawkins · #94041 ·

Re: Naperville

Amen to that. This was my first Naperville (brought the wife too and she liked it as well). We hope to be there again next year. "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance

By Robert J Miller CFA · #94040 ·

Re: When did IC start modifying their 50' SS DD boxcars into single door cars?

Hi Charlie, It looks like this conversion is outside of the scope of this group. My 1954 IC car diagram book doesn't show any of these cars converted into single door cars (34990-34999 with the left

By Ray Breyer · #94039 ·

Naperville Images Posted

I finally got my pictures from Naperville put together in the usual pBase gallery. This is most of the models on display. I was fighting low battery in my flash near the end and might have missed a

By dh30973 · #94038 ·

Looking for 1949 ORER pages

Hello Group, I am looking to develop a GN freight car roster for September 1949, and I am hoping someone on this list has either the last issue of 1949 or the first issue of 1950 and would be

By gn3397 <heninger@...> · #94037 ·

When did IC start modifying their 50' SS DD boxcars into single door cars?

October 1989 Railmodel Journal (on page 45) shows an IC SS DD boxcar converted into a single door car (IC 34899). Does anyone on the list know when IC started this program. I model circa 1954 and

By Charlie D modeling the Mopac http://mopac51.tripod <trduck@...> · #94036 ·

Re: Roger Hinman

you sure about that? :-)

By Tim O'Connor · #94035 ·

Re: Roger Hinman

try rhinman@... Roger Hinman

By Roger Hinman <rhinman@...> · #94034 ·

Re: Naperville 2011

I was told by Joe that it would be the first weekend in October. There was a problem with the hotel and dates. Scott Kremer

By Scott Kremer · #94033 ·

Re: PRR standard red oxide paint and GLa trucks

Bruce and Ben-- Thanks for the quick and comprehensive info, gentlemen! I have a Bowser H21, a Bowser GLa, and a Westerfield GLa to build. The Westerfield GLa is by far the nicest work of the lot.

By Steve Lucas <stevelucas3@...> · #94032 ·

Roger Hinman

I'm looking to contact Roger Hinman offline. He had a wonderfully informative presentation on NYC Coal Cars and it seems to me that the C&O's and NYC's early-steel thru WW2 type hopper car purchases

By al.kresse <water.kresse@...> · #94031 ·

Re: Tank car types

TVI is an oddball designation, turning up only in the mid- to late-1960s (1966-1968 for sure). The definition is: Tank car equipped with insulated container having an inner and outer shell with a

By Ian Cranstone · #94030 ·

Re: Tank car types

Clark Propst wrote: Nope. By 1970 all the AAR Mechanical Designations for tank cars had been simplified to "T" for all cars. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #94029 ·

Re: Tank car types

Tanks for the quick responce Tony! He models 1972, so TVI may not have been invented yet during the time of this list? Clark Propst

By Clark Propst · #94028 ·

Re: Tank car types

Clark Propst wrote: My ORER copies from the 1940s and 1950s have no "TV" classification. The suffix "I", as you surmise, means "insulated." Might he mean "TW"? That's a tank with a wooden

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #94027 ·

Tank car types

I have a friend struggling with his tank car fleet (asked some questions on his behalf at N'ville) He asked me last night what TPI and TVI AAR codes mean. We guessed that TPI was a pressurized,

By Clark Propst · #94026 ·

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