Richard: Is there a more complete e-mail address for Harold Vollrath? Bill [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Andy, you can add GM&O 22000- 22419 built 1947 ACF lot 3141 L&N 19000- 19499 built 1947 PS lot 5866 ------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Carlson wrote This

I haven't seen any beefing up of the side stakes in the C&Os Cor-Ten steel 70-ton hopper cars of the 50s.  Hopper car sides previously had to deal with the same clamping forces from the car

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Nelson; The painting instructions appear to indicate that the roofs were painted, but photos appear to show only the roof seam caps may have been or

Rick Aylsworth wrote: Good statement about HSLA steels, the great majority of which do NOT have unusual corrosion resistance. In the corrosion-resisting steels, the rust doesn't really

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Good points, Jim! It is very interesting why the resin kit makers (or their pattern makers) have chosen not to pursue more of the "intermediate" classes

Hi all, Cor-ten is only one type of high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steel, and not all HSLA steels have corrosion-resistant properties. So the use of the term HSLA does not automatically mean Cor-ten

Hey, all I have is a Xerox copy of the magazine pages, and given the contrast gain inherent in photocopying a halftone, the images are most definitely black. :( I don't think the originals were

Hi Jon, "detergent" oil was developed for systems that actively filter the oil, like a car engine. The detergent additives keep particles suspended in the oil so they will get filtered out. In a

Using my compressor (used to airbrush freight cars;-) ) I have often wondered why they need to use non-detergent oil? -- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax--Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI

Hi Chuck, I made a painting fixture for couplers by screwing alligator clips to a strip of wood. I just clip a coupler into each one and then hold the wood strip to spray them. As an added

Dennis, Please tell me that the photo on page 26 is in color and that the cars were black!! Seems to me that the cars when built or in service in the late 40's were balck. Yes, I am aware that

Andy, I've airbrushed diluted Floquil and Polly Scale mixes similar to those mentioned by Andy and Nelson on couplers and haven't found any effect on coupling. I do leave the trip

Now that I'm at work, I pulled material copied from the Third Quarter 1980 issue of Central Headlight, which has an extensive article by C.M. Smith about the NYC system USRA twin hoppers. On page 9

Armand, You're correct - the CV cars were smaller than the USRA cars which is why I started with a Bowser GLa car body. Stan makes a kit to convert the Bowser GLa into the one-of PRR panel-side car.

Marty,Just compare the dimensions.AFAIK the CV never owned any USRA hoppers.I have yet to try a panel on Bowser's GLa type to model the CV's hoppers.Doesn't Accurail have a paneled hopper?.Armand

From Tim O'Connor, Ed Hawkins and my own observations. This has been shared before on the STMFC list. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA This door is called a YSD-2A in Hawkins-speak, or a 5/5/4 (Ed counts the

There is a 1936 Popular Mechanics article about the use of Cor-Ten steel in freight cars. It can be found

That's why I started with the Bowser car when I wanted to build a few of these (see the first issue of Model Railroad Hobbyist). I have one of Stan's panel side conversion kits to make a panelized