Congrats to Clark Propst. VERY nice article about his technique for covered loads in this months RMC. Dave Campbell

Prior to 1945, B&O used a hand mixed paint with a ferrous oxide pigment on its boxcars and cabooses, calling the recipe "Freight Car Brown". Ferrous oxide is basically aged rust, a brown hue with a

Found one.  Thanks

Yes those 14 railroads encompass about 10% of the Standard offset twins ever built. Kadee chose to do a prototype variation that eliminated doing the thousands upon thousands of cars owned by the L&N

Wayne said: " .... if all RTR or near-RTR cars could be easily disassembled enough to enable replacing the steel plate ....." Fortunatly, the Chinese mostly use Crazy Glue to assemble the cars,

Looking to buy 1 Intermountain Santa Fe reefer kit at a fir price. Please contact me off group. Tanks. Dennis Williams pennsy6200@...

Ed Hawkins has lobbied Kadee for a long time to tool up for variations of their 50-ton open hopper. The ATSF hopper takes a minor prototype hardware change (Wine door locks instead of Enterprise?

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Are you guys talking about the freight car brake with (circular) handbrake wheel, or the lever brake with the triangular perforated pump brake

I'm thinking that the Peacock ratchet handbrake looked somewhat like a peacock? A small body holding the gearing, and an about two-foot long brake lever attached to it. This brake is worked by

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard, I might be mistaken, but LRX 7218 is one of a group of original DL&W reefers, 7000-7299, built ACF, 1925. They were white with black hardware when built, lettered

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE While I have only seen this done by individuals, there is a tremendous opportunity to do dedicated cars in various steel services, that would make wonderful

There are two different mini kit steel loads. F10a Ship Plate Load F20 steel plate Load (new) Charlie Slater To: STMFC@... From: timboconnor@... Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:21:27

Plausible but untrue, Mike. The cars were built by MDT at a time when both MDT reefers and New York Central box cars were equipped with shallow steel center sills to absorb draft and buff forces

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Outside of the timeframe, but all G32C were chosen at random from G32 stocks, so model and chose number based on photo... Based on numbers, the G32/G32A

Glad you posted this image, Matt. I have a print of it, too. The DL&W added truss rods to some of this batch of reefers to stiffen the sills, and this is clearly seen in the photo. In this era,

Matt Forsyth writes: In fact, it might take years...if the photo is not in the public domain. Note the Yahoogroup rule: Photos must be either in the public domain or copyright must be owned by the

I bought one in 2009 also. This is a different version. Jim [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Group, A few days ago, a thread discussed the DL&W's "LRX" reporting marks. Took me some time, but I just got an image of LRX 7218 scanned, and posted to my website. I would have attempted to load it

Been there done that: too "bendible" IMHO. Jerry Glow

I purchased this kit at Naperville in 2009. Bill Welch