When assembling the brake system on a house car my goal is to make it look accurate when viewed from the side and take as a given it is always in shadow. I want to be able to "see through" places

Nice work as ever Bill. Paul Doggett Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

Bill Welch wrote: Prompted by Dan's message I ordered multiple sprues for the three Tangent tank cars with their brake wheels. The set from the 6K tank car is the one to get, the wheels from the GATC

Bill Welch wrote: My question is about the wheel rim. The rim on the Tichy "A" set are round or oval but on the "K" set the rims are more or less rectangular w/square edges. Are both Rim shapes

Prompted by Dan's message I ordered multiple sprues for the three Tangent tank cars with their brake wheels. Bill Welch

Dan Who? Regarding: "—Are the two Tichy rim variations prototypical or a tooling error? Don't know. Both are plausible but the rim of malleable (cast) hand wheels was typically a 'U'

were the actual brake wheels used with flat cars and tank cars different than those used on reefers and boxcars. Depends on time period. Before geared hand brake were widely adopted, no, wheels on

N&W cars have a similar white square. Andrew Dow notes in his N&W hopper book that these painted squares denote the area for placards and route cards. Car men didn’t always oblige when racking up

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 08:17 AM, Gene Green wrote: Bill, First, your photos are always excellent. Kudos!To Bill, Gene and all. Yes Bill, can you give me some tips on photos off list, I would like

I built a couple of Westerfield CB&Q XM-17/18 kits recently. The decal sheet includes a small white square approximately 5 or 6 scale inches square, and photos show the square painted in the lower

Gene, Cal-scale parts: These are website photos, maybe someone has the parts in hand and can provide better photos. If you unscrew your eyeballs until you’re cross-eyed, on the plastic version you

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 02:33 PM, Dan Smith wrote: Is this the wheel you have tooled?https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/uDcAAOSw0d9bQ38Y/s-l1600.jpg Certainly looks like it, although we couldn't do the

On 7/14/2018 2:32 PM, John Riddell wrote: Didn't find any for the 36' car! -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Bill Welch wrote: Dennis, will the NYC brake wheel be available as a separate part?No, unfortunately not, its part of the 36' floor, underframe and detail parts

Bill, one of the Cal-Scale brake wheeel sets, 190-289, in photo attached. Other sets are Kadee and Grandt Line. Lester Breuer

Damn that new feebay system Dan Smith

Dennis, Is this the wheel you have

The 36' CP flats were number series CP 310000-311348. Built 1912 to 1915. Some 1,187 cars. The 42' CP flats were number series CP 335000-336559. Built 1919 to 1929. Some 1,548 cars. The 46' CP flats

If you go back to the good old (stemwinder) days, there is some evidence to be had in the CBCs, and all of the pre-1920 editions are available for free on-line (and the 1922 edition is/was available

It is quite likely, if we go back far enough, that railroads made their own hand brake parts. I have no evidence one way or the other but we all know most railroads had the ability to make malleable