Those drawings were published in the Jan 1898 issue of Railroad Car Journal. The article included a photo of LPTC #507, the Chanticleer, along with detailed information about construction, included

Jake, I didn't include the drawings in the presentation simply due to time constraints. That, and even projected, they can be difficult to read the dimensions. I have the drawings

These cars are quite interesting studies. Originally they were built with roofs similar, if not identical, to the Pennsy X37. Later they were rebuilt with a more conventional roof as well as new

It isn't but I think tungsten shot is available for those really hard toweight problems (like Detail Associates gondolas) - that's what you want touse. In general Deluxe Materials has some really

Kristin, Since such was not shown in your presentation, I thought you and others might appreciate to know that drawings of a LPTCo version of this ACF car appears in the 1916 Car Car Builders

Arguably the ugliest 40-foot steel boxcar ever built, I have loved it since seeing a small print of one in the Bob Charles Collection at the NMRA on a visit in 1997. The ladders are crazy too. Bill

Pierre I have Tony Thompson’s Southern Pacific Freight cars vol 4 and the ladders appear to be the same on the ends as the sides and I cannot see anything in the chapter that states anything

<snip> Have you heard of Tungsten powder? https://www.amazon.com/Dynacraft-Tungsten-Powder-Jar-8-Ounce/dp/B00LU0W5CA/ref=sr_1_1 Or Tungsten

Randy/all, We keep hearing guys talk about tungsten ... it doesn't "work" for me. Although tungsten does have a higher specific gravity than lead/steel ... it is not enough more to make a

Scott, See Mont's decals here: http://www.greatdecals.com/Switzer.htm#301n Ordering information on the page. The set you want is #301. The earliest photo I have of a car with the white stripe scheme

Stuart, While I have yet to locate photos of poultry cars loaded on the Santa Fe in SoCal, I feel it is highly likely... at least in the 1920 & 1930 with Thanksgiving turkeys from Ramona. Ramona,

Randy, Why buy shotgun shells to empty the shot out of for car weights? I suggest that it is much cheaper to find a sports shop that sells reloading supplies and simply buy a back of lead shot,

It is NOT tungsten. Please reread last year's conversation as I suggested. Dave Parker Riverside, CA

I wonder if that's tungsten shot. I've been trying to find a source for the smallest size shot in bulk, rather than buying shotgun shells and emptying them. This definitely looks like the stuff. You

Unfortunately it’s highly magnetic. It seems it’s ground cast iron or steel. As with all magnetcic materials that’s detrimental to the use of magnetic couplers like Kadee. The large undertie

There was a lengthy discussion of this (overpriced) product in June of last year. See message 149984 and all that follows it. Dave Parker Riverside, CA

Stuart, I haven't seen one specifically, but that doesn't mean they weren't there. A couple of photos show cars in CA (I have one from 1945 in Sacramento, and another in

Sounds like that’s rather the way the Ambroid car was in the first place. It used external strips to represent the edges of the decks between the layers of of chickens. On the actual cars it’s

Scott, Mont Switzer makes several great Monon decal sets. He would also be able to provide you with dates for the various pant schemes. Sorry, I do not have his e-mail address at hand. TJ TJ

Shifting from mesh to operations, has anyone seen photos of poultry cars running on the Santa Fe in Southern California? Stuart A. Forsyth forsyth@...