Dennis, No I don't know anything more about them than what I remember from the photograph. I'm pretty sure it was shared on an earlier version of this group, and might be in some archive. That's not

bill woelfel 2:09pm #171723 Car knocker will bad order that car, no couplers! The car in not in it's natural habitat. This car had a Duryea underframe. I'm waiting for an order of Kadee 197s.

I have never seen or heard of a conventional freight truck with a wheelbase in excess of 6 feet. Express trucks, sure. But, freight trucks? The 1901 IC car looks to my eye to have good old Fox

Pacific Great Eastern had two of these machines. They did not use them for truing loco wheels. They were used by the wrecking crew to do wreck recovery. There is an amazing book called "In the

Further discussion tickled the gray cells. Here is a photo of a boxcar built by the Pressed Steel Car Co. in 1901 for the Iowa Central that has similar

Car knocker will bad order that car, no couplers! Looks great!

36’ truss-rod boxcar QRL&P No. 1119 rode on fox trucks until at least October 1952. The ORER does not indicate that it is restricted from interchange. A color photo of November 12, 1950 is on page

Tamiya from spray cans is just fine and quicker than getting out an airbrush for one car. Brian J. Carlson

Chicago and Northwestern RPO's had the baggage doors close to the ends. Apologies for being off topic. Chuck Happel Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to

Eric, that is an important post! I've tried on several occasions to dullcoat a car with a rattle can. It has never worked to my satisfaction. Cans 'sneeze' on liquid in too-large drops. Only an

Hi Andy, Milw baggage cars generally had doors toward the car ends, above the trucks. A spotting feature for those cars. Did any other railroad put the doors close to the car ends? Ted

I've got Tony's book, and those cars surely look the same as the one in the picture of interest. I'm pretty confident in my scaling from the photo. I found the center of the car, and measured to the

Fascinating cars! They look like, or are, baggage cars with the doors at the ends of the side. Was this typical for the Milwaukee or are they unique to the silk business? And why? Regards,

Usually - at least in Standard Steel cars, they had theirown patterns for cast strikers. We haven't yet scanned H&Bstrikers, as we've scanned very few of the H&B small drawings. The Pullman strikers

Unfortunately, Ike's Southern design is about ten years too new; it has the drawbar carry iron cast integral. The USRA design used a separate cast carry iron attached with a large bolt, and indeed,

PGE 6072 (the crane in the film) was a 35-ton Ohio locomotive crane. Such cranes have been pressed into service to help clear wrecks when nothing else was available. And a few wreck cranes in that

Garth, do you mean the photos of both SP and UP gondolas being loaded with ballast at Black Butte, California? It includes UP 25218, built in 1903 with the Standard Steel Car Co. version of the

Do you have any idea who built those cars? Somewhere deep in the recesses of my memory (or what's left of it) I recall that Barney & Smith had a fabricated plate passenger car truck, that from the

Hey, that's neat. A nice memento for me as I had two uncles on my mom's side that built railroad freight cars in Renton back then. Thanks for the posting. Doug Paasch

Brian: Your project sound interesting! Although there are many drawings of striker castings in the SRHA archives, they typically only show a casting number, not a patent or vendor. The Southern cast