PS: just checked the ACF lot list. They built 32,128 replacement steel underframes for a wide variety of customers. Most were for boxcars and gondolas, but the list includes underframes for 6600

Really fine pictures, Steve! Thank you for sharing. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

I can’t tell if it is a true center anchor like the Class X cars, but the older Class I (built prior to 1903) tank had to be rigidly attached to the new steel underframe per the MCB specification.

Sure is: jack up the carbody, unbolt the wood sill, slide the prefab steel sill under the car, bolt into place, done. Railroads in the 1920s did this to over 100,000 cars (probably closer to 200-300

I know that in the 1920’s, the Rock Island “rebuilt” some boxcars with steel center sill assemblies from Bettendorf. The cars were stripped down to the trucks (which were also

Does the absence of head blocks imply that this car had been refitted with a center anchor tank attachment? Larry King

New York Central Lines was a pioneer in the reinforcement of wood cars-they called the steel assembly of steel center sills (with cover plates sometimes top and bottom sometimes only top) steel

Maybe the steel bent 90 degrees that ran the length of the outside bottom of the wood sheathing on both sides of the door. Gary L:aakso

Hudson, It’s the angle along the bottom of the side sheathing. It keeps the sheathing boards tight at the bottom of the car so that grain or other lading doesn’t leak out. Here’s a photo: The

Bob, I think that you might have meant that some of the cars lacked dome platforms on the side pictured. They all appear to have running boards. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Mike - Thanks for the info. That certainly makes sense. -- Bill Parks Cumming, GA Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida

What would a "grain tight sheathing angle" be? -Hudson

I’m not sure how to answer that question Tim. (no one made the youtube video, lol). However, it was done to thousands of cars in the late teens and 1920s on the CPR alone (and i’m sure on a lot

Rebuilt with steel center sills to replace wooden center sills, wow ! Is that easier than it sounds ? On 10/1/2022 4:04 PM, Hudson Leighton wrote: -- Tim

Northern Pacific Boxcar Upgrades 1925 -Hudson

Hi All, I came across a photo of an L&N 50' Single Sheath boxcar, series 9800-9899, on page 64 of Kline's and Culotta's The Postwar Freight Car Fleet. I was wondering if anyone had any further

Hi Bill & Group! New Sinclair tank cars were delivered from builders with the dome ring. Later Sinclair used four silver 'dots' painted on the domes. The conventional wisdom believes the dots were

We often discuss SN with him and he has given us the SN webpages at it home on WPLives.org His help in the past has been greatly appreciated K. Cochran FRRS/WPRM Info@...

I am a Vallejo dealer, I don't have an extensive stock, maybe 30 colors. I have tried to add any colors mentioned on this list as they seem to be what folks are using. I am happy to order any colors

All- Note that the kit is rendered differently in the HO and N Scale versions. In N the car is too small to be trying to straighten spaghetti Z framing and seems it would have been better to do the