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TC Boxcar from SMMW

I just received three of Smoky Mountain Model Works TC Boxcar. I am impressed by the quality and level of detail shown in the casting of the car body. Jim King does an exception job in this area.

By Allen Cain <allencain@...> · #99089 ·

General Arrangement Drawings

There is a huge difference between drawings and diagrams, GA Drawings and Railroad diagrams. The Diagrams and folios are more like what was described, while GA Drawings are, by definition, to

By Bob <drgw18@...> · #99088 ·

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By Jerry Britton · #99087 ·

Re: General Arrangement Drawings

Adding to what Denis and others have stated, Missouri Pacific freight car general arrangement drawings for cars built or in operation from the 1920s through the 1950s and later were typically 3' x

By Ed Hawkins · #99086 ·

Re: General Arrangement Drawings

I have more than several sets of SAL and even acl drawings in my collection. This includes various ones such as general,brake, and various subparts as well. They are ALL very precise in their

By seaboard_1966 · #99085 ·

Re: Kadee Wheelsets

Kadee trucks and wheelsets a few weeks ago from MB Klein. I do like the new trucks and the appearance is light years ahead of the old sprung versions. I bought some of the new model 70-ton trucks with

By Andy Harman · #99084 ·

Re: Kadee Wheelsets

Gentlemen, I may be a little late on this but I ordered and received some of the new Kadee trucks and wheelsets a few weeks ago from MB Klein. I do like the new trucks and the appearance is light

By golden1014 · #99083 ·

Re: General Arrangement Drawings

practice, but the SP, UP and scale files. General arrangement I may add nor for the ones I have seen for the B&ORR. I have seen entire blueprint sets consisting of maybe 100 individual drawings that

By rwitt_2000 · #99082 ·

Re: Necessary Freight cars

There's a rather famous one that is to scale but contains a famous error duplicated in many, many models. But it's off topic. I've seen railroad GA drawings that were laughably out of scale.

By Andy Harman · #99081 ·

Re: Formed wire?

Not signing his name wrote: Nothing propriatary here. I've been using a resistance soldering rig and an oxy-propane torch to silver solder wire. It is not a fun experience. Lately I've been

By Paul Lyons · #99080 ·

Re: General Arrangement Drawings

Nor for those I've seen from the Santa Fe files. General arrangement drawings for Santa Fe freight cars were highly detailed and drawn to exact scale. Their only shortcoming was that they

By Richard Hendrickson · #99079 ·

Re: Necessary Freight cars

I for one has seen the gamut when it comes to drawings. My builder has work from 1/4" scale drawings which I also have verify with the real prototype cars. We have also worked with RR general

By Rich Yoder · #99078 ·

Re: Necessary Freight cars

I must echo Tony's comment. All the general arrangement drawings I have seen were drawn to scale. Is it possible that someone has confused 'general arrangement' drawings with what is typically

By Gene <bierglaeser@...> · #99077 ·

Re: Long shot...

Tim and those few others who might be interested, Those are not the cars about which Clark was inquiring. To expand a bit on a previous post, the 23001-series of 50'-0" flat cars built by GATX in

By Gene <bierglaeser@...> · #99076 ·

Re: Necessary Freight cars

From: Andy Harman No doubt, but not all of us are employed in model RR R&D, nor retired and mobile to go travel to Roanoke and pull erection drawings, or chase down survivors in museums and

By Schuyler Larrabee · #99075 ·

Re: TC boxcar nomenclature correction

--- In STMFC@..., Anthony Thompson wrote [to my comment on stepped bolster tabs as an identifier for Pullman-Standard boxcars of the late '30s/early '40s]: "Not true, Dave. You can see it

By David Sieber · #99074 ·

Re: Formed wire?

Nothing propriatary here. I've been using a resistance soldering rig and an oxy-propane torch to silver solder wire. It is not a fun experience. Lately I've been

By hacketet <hacketet@...> · #99073 ·

Re: Long shot...

Richard One can be wrong -- because the answer is out there somewhere. There's a 1959 color yard photo in Gene Green's Morning Sun M&StL In Color (page 9) that shows 4 M&StL TOFC flats -- three are

By Tim O'Connor · #99072 ·

Re: Necessary Freight cars

A.T. Kott wrote: I can't speak for many railroads' practice, but the SP, UP and PFE general arrangement drawings I have seen are most certainly scale drawings, as one can verify by checking

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #99071 ·

Re: Long shot... M&StL 23001-series flat cars

Clark & those few others who might be interested, M&StL Specification No. 57, dated March 23, 1931 says in part, "PAINTING "All joints where metal laps on metal to be painted with one (1) coat of

By Gene <bierglaeser@...> · #99070 ·

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