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

Japanese Internees Unloading A Boxcar Photo from the National Archives. Circa 1942-1945. Caption: “Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Volunteer workers loading a truck from a boxcar for

KADEE makes the 1948 and 1950 PS-1 bodies you want. But I think that the C&O 1948 PS-1 box cars had AAR underframes and not the later PS-1 underframes. They are noticeably

Very neatly loaded. The only load of lumber I ever saw being unloaded was from a 40 foot double door Northern Pacific box car with a lumber door in one end. And it appeared that

Small tube defect car holders were quite common - what could be simpler ? :-) On 10/11/2022 2:05 PM, WILLIAM PARDIE wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling,

Perhaps for the "Liberty" trucks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_truck While those in the photo have steel sides, they have the same general layout as the wood-sided versions depicted in

Bill that is a defect card holder, but it looks like the cover for the open end is missing. Charlie slater Sent from Outlook

The underframe makes moving the car *heaps* easier than moving a building, unless it's something on the order of a Dymaxion deployment unit: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_deployment_unit> --

WOW - I would never have believed it if I hadn't seen it -- painting the hinges and latches a different color than the ice hatch tops ? Who does that ?? :-D

Easy peasy for any house mover. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date: Tuesday,