Well………. Walthers did give us the Piker and Oscar for passenger cars and the Jailbox and the Peanut car for freight equipment. Much earlier they ran several trolley car kits in both freight and

Does anyone know of decals for the script lettering on Celanesetank cars of the 1950s? Any help appreciated. Tony Thompson Champ HT-222 ? http://www.ebay.com/itm/111662870717 Tim O'

I also once considered destroying CB&Q prints of airbrushed negatives showing a XM32 box in proposed "National Park Line" script slogan and a NE 12 Waycar with funky picture windows. Most importers

That’s what I needed to know. (1) tells me my brake data needs an update and (2) tells me the simulation software is also wrong, it’s using 1.5 psi under to trigger the release. It’s been

Walthers # 1300. My mother worked for Celanese. Rode Pacific Electric to get to downtown LA back in the later '30s. Brian Leppert Carson City, NV

Don Strack wrote: Don, I am pretty sure that the bars and periods were never REQUIREMENTS. Many railroads differed from both practices from the start. Even initials were not actually required;

When were reporting marks, or car initials, formalized? I know car initials were used in the early days, but when did MCB, or ARA, establish a national list of which railroad used which reporting

Does anyone know of decals for the script lettering on Celanese tank cars of the 1950s? Any help appreciated. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

Eight of the photos tagged "maintenance and repair", http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/ussteel/search/search.do?facetFilters=dc.subject+exact+%22Maintenance+%26+repair%22 including the one we've been

Dave, Since no air brake pros have responded yet, I'll offer some rough answers. 1 - Not instantaneous, but pretty fast. Seems to me like it happens in a second or less. 2 - Trainline pressure must

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE I am glad some of you are interested in the subject, and also realized I confused everyone by limiting my discussion to just the standard "no sub-class"

Not familiar with the car in question (too new for me), so went searching and found

Oops, I should have changed the subject line on that last email. Pleasesend any responses to this one.Walt In a message dated 7/5/2015 1:02:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,STMFC@... writes:

Thanks Tim and Fenton, I'll get to Stan ASAP.Now, since that last question got answered so well I'll ask another which I havebeen pondering over for a few months. Has anyone ever modeled a

If you really want a model of the B&A car just park it at a warehouse as a substitute storage shed. eric bracher

Thanks James, that was it! Just not looking in the right place. Jerry

Tim, it post-dates 1960, past the end of this list, and while I have some EL equipment, I’m really not all that interested in EL, so red, maroon, whatever . . . Schuyler Ben, that lettering

Ben, that lettering is EL Maroon -- not red. The maroon letters were applied to many gray box cars. I think that's what Schuyler meant ... Although the scheme was only -applied- for a short while,

I stand corrected. But even so, there were not a LOT of cars with the red lettering, and besides, this is all past the end of this list. Schuyler

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: "Incidentally, the red lettering was never (AFAIK) applied to revenue service car, and the gray paint turned out to be a problem: these cars showed rust very promptly after