Rick Aylsworth wrote: True, I mistyped, reversing ferrous vs. ferric. But black ferrous oxide isn't a paint pigment. What a paint guy might call ferric oxide probably is a rather more complex

Tim, Garth, Bob and Gene, thank you for end photo and information. Lester Breuer

The MDT disposition records show they did sell DL&W a few of the older 40 foot cars with the Bettendorf underframe during the war,probably for end of life ice service. Its plausible these cars had

Tiny nit, Tony and Jim. Ferrous oxide is black (Fe+2). Ferric oxide (Fe+3) is the red-brown pigment, and also rust, with Tony's caveats. Different oxidation state = different crystalline structure =

I'm confused Richard -- I thought that ALL truss rod equipped cars from the 1920's onwards had steel center sills, since wooden center sills were banned from interchange. Or did you mean to say that

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard, I suppose that anything is possible in the composition of the LRX fleet, especially after transferring the cars to MDT, but here's a builder's shot of DL&W

jim_mischke wrote: Tiny nit, Jim, but it's the other way around. Rust is basically ferrous oxide, though hydrated and with other compounds also, depending on the environment and temperature

On Feb 14, 2011, at 1:46 PM, jim_mischke wrote: Bill and Jim, To reply to Jim's message, Kadee offers Wine and Enterprise latch door locks for their existing models. ATSF used Keystone Monoloc and

Matt, I lay no claim to be an expert on the DL&W, even less on their reefers, but I based that statement on the fragmentary information I have plus the photographic evidence. I have an in-service

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