Does the Intermountain War Emergency car come close to these. Rob McLear Aussie.

Master Modeler Welch was (is?) working on the War Emergency car. Suggest searching "Welch mkt" - I turned up some posts in May of this year. Have fun Steve

Rob MKT still had yellow box cars in the 1950's. And they built brand newyellow box cars in 1943 for the "war emergency". Those would most likely stillbe yellow in 1947. Tim O' -- Tim

Hello I have a question for the guru's on this list, I am quite enamoured with the MKT's yellow boxcars and am hoping that Speedwitch will be doing a re-run of the resin kit one day. I haven't been

David, The Sacramento Northern still rostered a few revenue-service flats and gondolas with wooden end sills into the 1950s. Don't forget that MW equipment even on larger

Hi Tim, In what timeframe would that have been? Pax, Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No. L2532 rbrown51[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com

standard gauge (Washington, Idaho & Montana Railroad) -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 02:48 PM, Peter Ness wrote: it rested on the end of the deck of the car in front – so the hand brake wheel was lowered for clearance.And in such location was inoperative. The

The photo of a rotated brake wheel is, I would say, for a very non-typical car because it has a wood end sill. I’m guessing a narrow gauge car, but I abso-posilutely guarantee that cars in the time

Thanks all. OK – so my understanding is correct in so far as when on hand brake wheel is lowered it is non-operational. Tim – the side-drop wheel doesn’t muddy the water too much, but

I believe it to be a Chicago-Climax Radial roof. norm buckhart

ok - I was being too general - i guess up in 4800-4900 series I think the number in the photo may be 4950

Eric, I believe the 4900 class is 1929 build by PC&F IIRC. Too late for your modeling. Sorry. Jim

Dave Nelson asked about the roof. Is it well documented? Yes the 6000 series car is very well documented, with numerous paper plans. However I do not have these all scanned. And like much research,

Hmmm. Yes, you are correct for thatimage. I think Jim Dick introduced this to the conversation but may not haverealized it was not the same as the car in the links with the damaged Cleveland tractors.

If the load hung over the end of the car, there probably was an"idler" car, and that car's hand brake could be used to anchor the loaded car. More typical would be a load that needed access from the

and just to muddy the waters a bit... :-) -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

So, kind of paraphrasing what's been said: If a brake wheel was lowered, it was raised the first time someone needed to use it. And it stayed that way until there was a reason to lower it. The

Hey, it's work to lower the brake staff. The brakes were usually in the up position, unless there was some reason (such as interference with the load). Since the hand brake was otherwise required to

maybe we’re talking about two different cars here’s the one I am referring to norm