Andy, They are definitely NOT Symington-Gould Type XL. There are photosand drawings of that truck in the 1953 CBC. The XL was applied to somePFE BR-40-10 express reefers. My best guess for the

It works with my Opera browser. gary laakso south of Mike Brock

I'm wondering if anyone else is having the Exactrail website blocked by their Malware protection. Thanks, John Howard

Doesn't the upsetting of the ends create incomplete and flawed threading??? That would have resulted in failing truss rods. Mike Bauers

I have no affiliation with Exactrail, but this strikes me as a good price on a nicely rendered version of the M-53. Cheers Ted Culotta Begin forwarded message:

A quick look in the 1906 Car Builder's Dictionary shows 1-1/4", 1-3/8", 1-1/2", and 1-5/8" on some gondolas. The smallest diameter rods are often called out as "1-1/4" with 1-1/2" ends." Upsetting the

Who is "slipbay" on ebay? He offers the same "rare" photos of STMFCs every few days. Ed Mines

Anyone know this for certain? Ed Mines

What I've seen of GTW paint is that it followed CN Standard colours until the 1970's when GTW President Burdakin changed things. You've a few choices for an accurate CN No. 11 Red paint match for GTW

This image link comes from the Trains website (http://robertpiers.tumblr.com/archive)on Tumblr. There are many images from other sources on this website, most ofwhich are of contemporary freight cars.

Steve, The time period of the GTW model isn’t provided, but I offer the following in hopes it might be of some help. ACF paint specs for GTW box cars & covered hopper cars built from 1949 to 1953

As a member of the Canadian National system the "official" answer is the car would have been painted some variant of CN Red #11 in the transition era. (I suspect when these cars were built in the

---In STMFC@..., <mjmcguirk@...> wrote : The "pregnant tapeworm" logo on the door is post-1963. In a VERY early issue of the CVRHS Ambassador John Paganoni did a short piece outlining the additions

I just added a color photo taken in the 1950s of a Pacific Lumber company steam switcher working a GTW box car, plus there is also an ACL box car and an in-plant arch bar trucked truss bar flat with

I purchased a built GTW autocar today , F&C kit 6651. It is painted a pretty dark brown. Is that the correct color? If not, what is the correct color for this car?

All, I allowed my spell check to get the best of me and meant to sayI am appalled Greg Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs throughit. Norman Maclean In a message dated

The New York Central System Historical Society had an article on the NYC's Pacemaker service and the cars used in their "Central Headlight" 1st Qtr 1992 magazine. The paragraph on the trucks

In the late Richard H. article on "HO scale freight car trucks" the photo of the InterMountain Symington high speed looks similar to the one under the Pacemaker box car. Here's the old link which

In the one page monograph of the NYC Pacemaker box cars in Vol. 8, RPC, Ed Hawkins describes the replacement trucks used in the conversion of nearly-new 10'0"IH box cars into the Pacemakers. "Barber

Andy, The various Symington-Gould high-speed pedestal trucks I'm aware of all have coil springs within the sideframe on either side of the pedestal jaws, in addition to the spring above the journal