I believe this close-up photo is the same item. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Fred, I agree with you. Tony's pretty quick on the draw when people say "unique" and he's usually completely correct. :-D But not uniquely. ;-)

And comparing the R-40-14 ends to the R-40-25 ends we see the characteristic change in the topmost major rib that occured about 1949 and model companies have mostly ignored (with

Several thousand FWD trucks were built for WW1. Those beds in the gons look similar to what was on the FWD trucks. Here’s a model sitting to the left of a 1926 Mack. 202202_trucks_13 JPEG Image ·

Tony, I love your humor: "...First, it’s not quite unique as there were two of them...". Two among -how many; 38000?- PFE cars. Plus both were significantly different from each other, so yes, both

Dan, here's another one. Don't remeber where it came from, I suppose a book. Fred Jansz

The car with the open door is CP 17728X. It was reweighed, I think, 25 05 38. CP 17728X was one of a series of Dominion boxcars (175000-177885) that appears in the ORERs for the first time in the

is it about different materials - some to which paint sticks; some “not so much”? Rob

I didn't have any specs, but I have added a little piece of styrene rod to represent this type of card holder. On 10/11/2022 4:22 PM, Ed Hawkins wrote: -- Tim

Speaking as a working engineer, the factory mangling things is not as rare as one might wish. MIL-TFD-41 is often not followed. Then again, drawings often ask the nearly impossible, or fail to show

Looks like one of the Reading XA cars. Drew Marshall in South Jersey Modeling the pre-Depression years. Sent from TypeApp On Oct 11, 2022, at 15:01, "Bob Chaparro via groups.io"

Yep, it is a Builders Photo with apparently mangled end grabs. Go figure. -- ------------------- RJ Dial Mendocino, CA

Frank, someone posted more info in the other thread: https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/message/195909 Dennis Storzek

Look at the variation in weathering of the PFE reefers in this photo: DAG14-016.jpg J. Stephen Sandifer

Read the manual! The typewritten captions say it is a class outing. If it was Scouting as well as being single sex, the adult would have loads of badges on his shirt. One of the biggest efficiencies

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 01:36 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote: Now we know how farmers got those old box cars home to use as storage sheds. :-) Note that the boxcar has neither body bolsters nor center sills,

Bill, The item in question is a defect card holder by the name of “Cheeper” made by Western Railway Equipment Co. Attached is a U.S. Patent for it. There were a number of different

Bruce, that is true, and also irrelevant. Since we each have no fixed "standard" of color perception, the RGB values do indeed show DIFFERENCES in perceived color, and that's

Not just color deficiency but light sensitivity itself -- We need much more light on the subject now to see it clearly. Inexpensive color scanners (3-in-1) can give you pretty

WHOOPS ! Correction -- the Kadee cars you want are #5099, #5100, etc - They are the same car as the other one but have RIVETED end sheets, which is correct for the C&O cars. This