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Re: [Shake_N_Take] Shake N Take Aftermarket List

Greg, please put me on the list for one RI, one ATSF and one CNW. TIA gary laakso

By gary laakso · #122292 ·

Kevin, there are general arrangement drawings and many assorted detail drawings for the early ACF-built cars in the Railway Age Gazette, 1913, Vol. 55, No. 14: 609-614. These same general arrangement

By Eric Lombard · #122291 ·

Re: Sawtooth boxcars

I don't know if you read off the wrong line or ?? but the StLB&M series you list are 36' cars. Nos 2901-3400 are 40' cars Jerry Glow

By jerryglow2 · #122290 ·

Re: Sawtooth boxcars

I drew one of the Soo's 1914 ACF cars that I measured at the Illinois Railway Museum a number of years ago, and you are welcome to a copy for your project, but there are currently much more complete

By destorzek@... · #122289 ·

Re: Sawtooth boxcars

Hello Kevin & Everyone: When Al Westerfield made up the SL-SF sawtooth box cars, our series 11200, he most likely had some plans. However, I have not had a chance to go through the boxes of

By dahminator68 · #122288 ·

Central Vermont decals (WAS: Re: CV boxcar help F&C kit 6655)

Dean, Prior to WWII the Central Vermont's cars had the road name spelled out in Roman style lettering as a single line along the left side of the car. At some point either just before the war or

By Marty McGuirk · #122287 ·

Re: CB&Q XM21-XM23 boxcars with steel ends?

Hello Mr. Scanlon: Please check out the 11800 series Kits on westerfieldmodels.com. This series covers the CB&Q XM-21/22/23 box cars. All had single sheathed ends. Also, all three types are

By dahminator68 · #122286 ·

Two Dome Tank Car

Link to a Flickr photo by “EMD111” taken around 1985: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emd111/3648761569/sizes/o/in/photostream/ Can anyone tell me what we have here? Bob Chaparro Hemet,

By thecitrusbelt@... · #122285 ·

Re: Article -- AAR Open Load Tie-Down Rules

Steve wrote: "Pamphlet MD-4 - I don't have and don't know what it covers." Steel Pipe and related products. Guy Wilber Reno, Nevada

By Guy Wilber · #122284 ·

Re: CV boxcar help F&C kit 6655

You're thinking of Robert W. Smith of RailCad, who did a number of decal sets, primarily for GTW equipment, as well as drawings of GTW equipment for Mainline Modeler. He passed away several years ago

By Richard Dermody <ddermody@...> · #122283 ·

Re: CV boxcar help F&C kit 6655

The kit for the cars with the double doors is equally useful as a CV or GTW car -- mainly because 500 of these cars were built for CV as 42000-42499 in 1929. In late 1935 or early 1936, 375 cars

By Ian Cranstone · #122282 ·

Re: CV boxcar help F&C kit 6655

Dean, Let's just say the decals are pretty typical of those in F&C kits. Champ used to offer a decent set of decals and C-D-S Lettering had good quality dry transfers. Champ is gone, but Ozark

By Richard Dermody <ddermody@...> · #122281 ·

Re: Article -- AAR Open Load Tie-Down Rules

I have RPC 20 - very nice - and not forsale. However, I see on ebay and in train shows the"Bible" from which RPC 20 was developed. They are AAR pamphlets. Ihave: Pamphlet MD-1, Rules Governing the

By Steve SANDIFER · #122280 ·

Re: Article -- AAR Open Load Tie-Down Rules

On the RPC site there are a few dozen vendors listed. I'd start with them. Brian Carlson.

By Brian Carlson · #122279 ·

Re: Article -- AAR Open Load Tie-Down Rules

donate two quarts of blood on either amazon or ebay mel perry

By clipper841@att.net <clipper841@...> · #122278 ·

Re: Article -- AAR Open Load Tie-Down Rules

Okay, guys, you have piqued my interest. If the RPC #20 article is a “must have,” for flat car and ton loads, how do the rest of us get to have it? If anyone has a pdf copy, or knows where to get

By michaelegross <michaelEGross@...> · #122277 ·

Re: Article -- AAR Open Load Tie-Down Rules

Sounds like a great issue. Anybody know where there is a copy for sale? Thanks, Jerry Williams

By Jerry Williams · #122276 ·

Re: UTLX tank cars in 1924

Thanks again, Tony. Regards, Mike Calo Glen Burnie MD (just south of Baltimore)

By MICHAELCALO3403 <michaelcalo3403@...> · #122275 ·

Re: Rapido Meat Reefers

Update. In case anyone else has the folded roofwalk bracket issue. Tonight I decided that I probably had some frets left over from various etched part that might be narrow and thin enough to replace

By Brian Carlson · #122274 ·

Re: Article -- AAR Open Load Tie-Down Rules

Don Burn writes: "Are you perhaps thinking of the RPC #20 article on the subject." Bullseye, Don -- thanks! I obviously had MM confused with its more-than-worthy successor. It's a great article -- a

By Bob Chapman · #122273 ·

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