A little graphite might help too.Armand Premo

Most of us enjoy old photographs and the detailscaptured in time. The latest DesignBuildOp blog post features several vintage Erie and DL&W images highlightingan assortment of freight car and scene

Run a #11 blade inside the coupler to remove any flash. Bill Vaughn

No, it is not a membership site. If you go to the home page select literature then redball look under rolling stock diagrams and you will find 33 leighvalley depressed center flat You just cannot go

Better yet, delimit the URL with characters not in the string (brokets work well) cosi: <http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-new-sp-bridge-for-shumala-part-3.html> -- "Not only is it not

Not to beat a dead house on this car but I've always had an interest in unusual trucks. It appears that the LV car had a pair of "Lamount (D-8)" trucks (at least the Red Ball model). I've

Just go to the RedBall page and find it from there http://hoseeker.net/redball.htm

Thanks for the review of freight car details in the latest MRH Tony! Youenlighten some of my friend causing a conversation about freight cars for achange at our weekly ops. ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

Maybe a little flash creating tight clearances in the knuckle? Did you try a little graphite lube? Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List <STMFC@...> on behalf of STMFC List

I had what I’ll call a lazy knuckle on one of my cars. I’ve standardized on#158s, this particular coupler acted like it was missing it’s spring, would notstay coupled. The springs in these

Going off memory, the CG, Sou, SAL, MP, RI, NYC, Erie, and the NH all had these cars. I'm sure there were others as well. Does anyone have a list of original owners of these cars? What were the

On 2/9/2017 7:26 PM, 'Schuyler Larrabee' schuyler.larrabee@... [STMFC] wrote: Not that I know of, I went right in. I just tried Google (HOseeker), click on the

Is hoseeker a membership site or list? I got “403 Permission denied.” Schuyler

On 2/9/2017 12:57 PM, 'Gatwood, Elden J CIV CESAW CESAD (US)' elden.j.gatwood@... [STMFC] wrote: While very crude now, it was neat for it's time. I found the sheet

On 2/9/2017 5:47 PM, 'Layout Tour' mylvrr@... [STMFC] wrote: While I don't know much about this car I know how I did the trucks. Red Ball did have a set of 28" wheel

Jon, Yes, they are the cars Red Ball based there LV model on. The overall dimensions were close. I used the sides and replaced the cardboard deck with plastic sheet and used Archer rivets. Fitting

Not US prototype but in the UK, two different manufacturers have announced RTR Ministry of Defense/War Department "Warwells" which are depressed center flat cars designed for tank

Tony - The / included at the line break makes a bad URL - try this one folks: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-new-sp-bridge-for-shumala-part-3.html

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED Al; Both had wells within the low deck, correct? Thanks! Elden Gatwood

Jon, You are correct. Red Ball did this LV prototype, they had manufactured a set of trucks to go with this car, but are totally inaccurate. The book Mr. Davis mentions has pictures of the