Anyone who would like to learn how to identify some different truck styles can go to the bbfcl (Baby Boomer Freight Cars) Yahoo group and look for my Photo Album titled "Truck Spotting" and also read

Hi all, Again in the UK, steam-era freight stock was predominantly 4-wheeled with say a 10-12ft wheelbase. The sprung axle boxes were mounted on separate frames (W-irons), one at each corner. In

January 1955 ORER - 55 July 1958 ORER - 54 Jim Brewer Glenwood MD

Here in the UK the underframes sold for freight cars tended to be moulded in styrene type plastics, so the brass bearings are to protect the axle boxes against wear. Much of the newer stock is

I don't know how long they lasted. The PDS says there were 55 in 1953 (as many as were rebuilt: the series wasn't full); perhaps someone with a newer ORER can help. BTW, the original single-sheathed

can i ask when these cars lasted in service until? regards, ben

*single-sheathed

A&WP 37700-37833 were rebuilt between 1948-53 from Pratt-truss singled-sheathed boxcars dating from the twenties. They had five panels each side of the door and 7/8 "Murphy" ends, and were painted all

The ever resourceful folk of Bruceford have been known, as were many other lineside dwellers in the steam era, to salvage the contents from wrecked freight cars. Hopefully, the cargo of said hopper

The URL didn't come through highlighted in my e-mail.  I tried https://     http://   https://www. and http://www None of them worked. Francis A. Pehowic, Jr. Sunbury,

Hello to all in the group. I am modelling 1947 on the Santa Fe and the one thing I have trouble with in identifing what cars I should run on the road, is what paint scheme was used when, I am not an

I'm trying to contact Richard Hendrickson with a question on a Sinclair tank car that I'm trying to identify. If he could contact me at obermeyern AT yahoo DOT com it would be greatly

Bill, According to my copy of the 1940 Car Builders CYC, the term is fish-belly sill, and side sill. I'm not certain about "hatch". If you'd like to borrow my 1940 copy, and could meet me at the

Francis A. Pehowic wrote: I just tried it by clicking on the link, worked fine. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Denny Anspach writes: "Athabaska made some very fine low profile conical brass bearing inserts designed for styrene E&B passenger trucks, if I recall; and Reboxx also once made some excellent

When I look in the otherwise excellent UK model rail magazines like Model Rail and Model Railway Journal (MRJ authors are as particular about UK steam-era freight rolling stock as we are about North

________________________________________ Gentlemen, Can someone out there provide information on an Atlanta & West Point box car # 37702. I have a decal I purchased from Jerry Glow months ago and

These brass bearing inserts might be very useful for trucks made with soft metal sideframes. I think the old Red Ball/Cape Line trucks were made with soft metal. The Brits may well still be

Gentlemen, allow me to observe that none of us have the RIGHT to scan and post on the internet a "significant" part of any copyrighted book -- unless of course you have obtained permission from

The difference is spring travel. S-2A, B and C trucks used long travel springs of 2-1/2", 3-1/16" and 3-11/16", whereas the original S-2 trucks used either the ARA 1915 coils or the AAR 1936 coils,