I did one of the AHM modifications several years ago. You can see it about halfway down the page at http://atsfrr.com/resources/Sandifer/Clinics/Stk/Mod/AHM.htm I cut a block of wood to fit snugly

---In STMFC@..., <thecitrusbelt@...> wrote : If the answer in #2, then when were ladders with side railsand rungs required? ===================== As far as I know, never within the time

Sometimes guys go into such detail describing a car from the early teensthey run short on time and rush through the later stuff that most people careabout. Put the detail info in a handout, don’t

Bob, Reviewing builder images of the Teens and Twenties should reveal freight cars using individual grabs as a ladder and actual ladders. Before this 1910 amendment, many freight cars had one ladder

An area that is often neglected is the information on each freight car.What does it all mean?Why is it important ?Seeing a car with "New" after many years of service has bothered me.What does Reweigh

Friends, By the numbers, these were originally Georgia 19300-19449, ARA XM-1 design single-sheathed boxcars built by Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. in 1924. They are covered in RP Cyc 18,

A 1910 legislative amendment to the Railroad SafetyAppliance Act required, among other things, ladders on freight cars by July 1,1911. My question is, did this amendment require (1) ladders

Good advice guys – thanks. I’ll look over the deck and make additions and changes to reflect the many good ideas! No promises about Prototype Rails just yet Jeff. But I’ll see if I can

Rob, Here are a few thoughts. Tell the audience why they should care. (I.e. these cars were ubiquitous, this class is significant because it used sideways inverse-Murphy ends

Rob, Please provide a handout that details the series and the specific details as I find this type of information priceless for modeling. The ability to model specific cars is a good thing to

The changes of paint and lettering over the life of a car can mean a lot to a modeler, especially when you can give a date when the style changed. A feature that has tripped me up in the past was

Hi there, I’m busy collecting images and ORER information to present a freight car clinic. The focus is basically a summary of the house car roster of a specific railroad in a specific era,

Regarding the Georgia rebuilds I have photos of two: #29448 this is a BCR car, photo by Paul Dunn in the Rich Burg collection #29345 this is a black and aluminum car, photo by Col. Chet McCoid from

I am going to look also. Bill Welch

There's a photo of GA 29330 in MM 4/99, p 60, and one of GA 29399 in Henderson, "Classic Freight Cars vol 1", p 39. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Ed mines wrote: >Chuck was a career man with IBM, in the personnel department I believe. He grew up in Scranton, PA and was a railfan when steam was replaced by diesel. Avid modeler too. >We always

Can you getme the car numbers off your photographs? I have one photo Gary. It’s29382 ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

Clark: Can you get me the car numbers off your photographs? The Georgia Road/West Point diagrams aren't detailed enough to show the posts. Looks like they used one drawing for all their boxcars, and

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