Well that was FAST! Thank you Bill! Take care Brian R. Termunde Midvale, UT

They are watertube boilers. Similar to marine boilers. They are the opposite of firetube boilers which were commonly used on steam locomotives where the combustion gasses go through the tubes and

I case these will help: http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/modeling/models/welch/np90218main.html http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/modeling/models/welch/np92313main.html There are slight variations

On one of my Milwaukee Road lists, the attached photo was shared. He was interested in the load, any ideas? Thanks! Take care Brian R. Termunde Midvale, UT

Photo: Tank Car With Full Hand Railings A 1955 photo from Riley Triggs' Port of New York

What about the crossbearers? The Accurail UF has the common arrangement where the CB tapers from 7" to 12" and the cover plate goes through a slot in the center sills. The Tichy UF has crossbearers

They all had fishbelly center sills. Aaron Gjermundson

I can on the 90062, but not on the 93528, so maybe the later series does have shallow CB's like the Accurail UF. Dennis Storzek

https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/72157649155982802/ Bob Webber

Dennis, you can see the crossbearers? All I can see is black! Except for the Truss Rod underframe, which also looks fun to do. The Tichy underframe is $3.39 ea, so will use those. Bob, I searched all

Thanks for the help everyone!

Several people have mentioned substituting an Accurail fishbelly underframe on these cars, but looking at the photos Arron just posted, I note the N.P. cars had crossbearers that drop all the way to

The NP reefers did not have braces on the ends. The number is correct for reefers in series 90000-90799 built by NP in 1931-32. John Monrad

There is a book by Charles S. Small called "California's Railway Guns". It is a 90 page paperback. There are drawings and photos. The photo reproduction is not great. A gun similar to the one in

Every-time I get a photo of an already competed car I find more work to do. But I love it. Bill Pardie

Friends, Note the interesting cradle, possibly specific to this particular model gun. I would suggest the cradle went back on the same flat car pair for reuse to where the gun was proofed and stored.

Since the NMRA librarian position has been unfilled for years, there is no one to do anything about it. I am not sure how the transfer to the Sacramento library has proceeded but maybe that is the

This should help a little bit. A few different Monad and paint scheme variations. An early series had a single truss rod on each side of the fishbelly center sill. Also, some of the cars had the

did you look at the Barringer AC&F Flickr site - theremight be builder's photos of them there..... Bob Webber

The CB&Q used gondola wedge push plows in the early years, but in 1948, they scrapped the gondolas, salvaged the wedge blades, and mounted them on FM-11 and FM-11A flat cars. I’d like to model one