Jonathan: Thank you very much for the kind words! I have been presenting various subjects to several RPM sessions now for more than ten years. I have come to think that they are the absolute best

Superb, Ike, thanks for sharing this. Schuyler Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 11:36 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] Re: Automobile Shipping I just checked, the PDF of the

Ike, what an excellent and revealing presentation, especially as it pertains to the Evans Loading Devices. I had written a little piece on auto loading and Evans history that describe techniques

Peter Hall asked about hexagonal wire. In the jewelry world there is a tool (drawplate) that allows you to reshape round wire into hex, as long as the wire is on the soft side. Hexagonal Drawplate 8"

RJ Dial asked:Follow-up question is would the boxcars have been only from railroad(s) that served that manufacturing plant? For example, Yarmouth's nice looking CPR Automobile boxcar, would you expect

Friends, So if you are . . . uh . . . TIRED of the automobile shipping thread, try searching the Longmont web site Richard Townsend suggested. It is loaded with photos of the Great

.020" seems too large for a Brake Shaft but I would appreciate other opinions. The .016 x .016 Dental Wire I was looking at is in fact Ovoid so re-thinking this thing. Bill Welch

I think if I were cutting square (or other) stainless wire, I would use a cutoff wheel. Ed

And here's a fire truck being unloaded from an automobile boxcar at Longmont, Colorado: http://longmont.pastperfectonline.com/photo/A6F4B0F7-A765-4BC9-A340-777741842355 There are other photos in

Here's a shot of a 1947 Ford sedan being unloaded on the freight platform at Old Saybrook, CT. Any guess what the freight car

Bruce, In the case of the Colorado Midland on the Western Slope of Colorado acouple of 2x6's were used for the ramp. Photo if wanted. Tom VanWormer Monument CO 'Bruce F. Smith' smithbf@... [STMFC]

Dennis Storzek wrote: Goos summary. On the last point, there was an intermediate era in which wooden "hurdles" were used to support automobiles much as the Evans loader did, but of course with

Judging from end photos in "Focus on Freight Cars,” it looks like some box cars had hexagonal shafts. Any chance someone has found hexagonal wire that would be suitable, or is that too much to

Hi RJ, Send me a note at dgconnery at sbcglobal dot net. I have a photo of them unloading Model T's in Sonora (body separate from the frame and drive train). Would be a great scene to model. Can't

When talking about the origins of shipping autos by rail, we need to keep in mind that this was really just an extension of shipping carriages by rail. Before the turn of the twentieth century,

I just checked, the PDF of the presentation I did at the Collinsville RPM on shipping autos and auto parts last year is still up on Google Drive. If anyone is interested, they can download theGoogle

Jeff, Basically, the closest local team track or freight house was typically the place where automobiles were delivered to local dealers and then they were driven on their own wheels to the

Depending upon your modeling era, 36-foot automobilebox cars should be considered. Here's an image of Michigan Central 87129. Thiscar was one of 1000 built by AC&F in 1912 as Lot 286-B. The October

I have photos of docks with ramps and track charts that show the ramps at the IC freight houses in Decatur IL and Centralia IL. How were the autos distributed to the dealer? Did the

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