A few months ago I went searching forstick-on weight at auto parts stores and came up empty handed after visitingeight stores. These are not as common as they once were. Eric Hansmann El Paso,

Looking at the door tracks of the SAL car, it appears that the doors can overlap in the opened position, so the full opening would be accessible. Apols if this has aleady been pointed out, I’m

Maybe it's just me, but this subject seems to be way over-thought. I suspect you could walk into any tire store and buy enough wheel weights, for a few dollars, to would last quite a while for our

Pure tungsten electrodes 7oz $10.00 Free shipping.

I looked through everything I had and concluded that the car I had will get my freelanced mill roads reporting marks. I never found a car with that combo. And I have the C&O hopper book (at home in

Earliest examples of the Viking Corrugated Roof that I know of were built in 1934, and I've seen drawings of it dated 1933. The Climax Radial Roof dates back to at least 1924, and I would suppose the

I see there is also tungsten shot , and foil, Allen Rueter

Cube, putty, and flat tungsten weights can be found at Walmart and on eBay with cheaper shipping. Do a google search, avoid fishing related products, and you'll find lots of options with reasonable

Tungsten is a very hard, very difficult to work metal. It also has an extremely high melting point, so you won't be melting and casting it at home, either. On the plus side, as was mentioned in an

That's a strange restriction. Usually the more you buy the cheaper it gets. Or at least stats the same. It it precious enough that 18 ounces is considered too much for one person to possess? Maybe

Interesting that the site doesn't say that. -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI UserNMRA Life member #2623Member SFRH&MS

Bruce, Al, Ben, & others interested, I have not found evidence of any AAR design 50-ton offset-side hoppers having radial (arched) end extensions. Other than cars with flat-top ends, end extensions

Ed, Best I can do for you is a scan of Chicago-Cleveland ad in June 21, 1930 Railway Age. If you feel that would be of any help please email me off list at genegreen at yahoo dot com. Gene Green

Just got a call from Maximum Velocity informing me that the maximum orderat that price is 5 oz. I cancelled my order. – Al Westerfield

Andy – Thanks. I just purchased 18 oz. – Al Westerfield

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Thanks, Brian! Elden Gatwood

Elden Use Stan R's replacement roof made for this car. Brian J. Carlson

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Group; Do we know what years matched what style? I have a goal of eventually modeling an ex-NKP, now P&WV double door box with Viking roof, and would love

No, CBCs wouldn't have that level of detail. What you need are vendor or railroad drawings for the specific end (not the general arrangement drawing). David Thompson

I posted some pics and drawings of an N&W application here: Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. Steam era freight