What would be a typical lading for a DODX tank car? (I assume the car is owned by the Department of Defense). Alex Schneider Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail on Android

Thank you, Phil.

2. The Red Caboose tank car is only accurate for some DODX AC&F-built welded tanks. GATX had its own welded tank car designs; several of them are accurately represented by the Tangent tanks. -Phil

On Nov 27, 2021, at 11:41, Guy Wilber via groups.io <guycwilber@...> wrote: [...] > If you need copies I can scan and forward to you. If there are no incumbrances, please consider

Owen, Here are the diagram sheets for all of the IC 50 foot SS double door cars including door and a half cars from the 1954 diagram book. And

Andy wrote: “I have been searching for a source of HO scale sheet piling pieces, and having found one in Germany that produces a fantastic product, I am ready to create some mill gon loads for my

My apologies if this topic has been covered before. I've used the group search function and have searched the internet at large and I am unable to find the answer. Is the silver GATX "Flying A" paint

While just beyond my 1944 modelling era, the line of condemned Alton 17xxx steel underframe DS boxes is relevant for me as the 17000-17998 40' IL , 8' IH 2730 CUFT boxes wer just over half of the

Ralston Steel Car Company of Columbus built 1,000 of these cars for the Kanawha & Michigan, between July and September 1912. Numbered 7500-8499, these cars were later relettered (NYC) and renumbered

Thanks for the information David. I always thought they were ex-PRR Gla's. Chet French Dixon, IL

Hello group, Beyond a brief mention within this 12 y.o. discussion of using the HO Walthers 50' single sheathed automobile boxcar kit to represent an IC prototype series, I have found little further

Please excuse the multiple posts. In between the flood of emails for Black Friday, Please let me remind you that we will be announcing the 2022 Shake n Take project on Saturday evening. We

HO scale can load for a PTSX (Proleride Transportation Systems) recycled steel quad hopper. Aluminum foil tops from canned drinks, mainly Sanpellegrino, and a few other miscellaneous foil sources

Yeah, funny how the bad estimates were always on the high side. Tony Thompson

Interesting, Thanks Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Open-top freight cars can also be overloaded by volume. And , this doesn't look like a scrapyard location; it's way too clean. Notice the house car coupled onto the gon. I think the

Hudson, I would agree. I tend to think that the scrap on the ground is what is left of the pile that was being loaded into the car. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, Al

I think a load of tin can scrap would be hard to overload, lots of air space. -Hudson

Fenton, I've built both. Run them for awhile then sold the Sunshine car. With the 6' door it didn't have the character of the Speedwitch model. Clark

Looks like this car may have been an overload. The scrap on the ground is an attempt to adjust the weight. Scrap dealers were notoriously bad at judging weight in my field days. Bob Allan Omaha