No, by 3d printer standards, this is not state of the art or new technology. This is the same type of extrusion type printer that I have. Not nearly the quality needed for most details, good enough

Hi Guy, I'm catching up on my email today...finally. I don't know what kind of response you received but if you are still looking for info I have diagrams of these cars I can scan and email to you.

Richard, Scans of the roof illustrations for the Hutchins Dry Lading and Murphy style freight car roofs would be extremely helpful as I do not have Car Builders' Cyclopedias. My research has

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Gee, I'd have thought that such a person would either promptly get a certificate for above-average curiosity or perhaps a recruiting brochure for the prototype

In 1950, 66 railroads owned a total of 54,555 stock cars. The largest was the Santa Fe with 13% of the national fleet. Only 3 roads east of the fleet Mississippi: PRR, NYC, and B&O, had 1000 stock

--- In STMFC@..., "Dave Sarther wrote: "I am hoping that some of the members on this list can help me find illustrations and photos of the Hutchins style(s) of box car roofs and the Murphy

Some reweigh/repack data sets from Champ, Sunshine, etc. include brake service stenciling, but modified repack data works fine. Back when there were no decals for the really tiny lettering on HO

Craig Zeni wrote: I just use a compactly arranged piece of repack stencil from the Sunshine sets. I don't do it on that many cars, because in many photos you can't read it for the dirt. But

Dave, these are well illustrated in the Car Builders' Cyclopedias of that era. If you don't have access to them, I can scan them for you. Richard Hendrickson

Tim wrote: "And dividing 541,606 by Stephen's 36,726 stock cars yields 14.74 loads/car for a year -- about 25 days per carload. If you factor in the 28 hr rule for loaded livestock cars, I guess

List Members, I am hoping that some of the members on this list can help me find illustrations and photos of the Hutchins style(s) of box car roofs and the Murphy style(s) of freight car

Craig There are a number of decal sets that have been printed with air brake stencils. I think the first set I ever used was for an SFRD reefer. They're really tiny and sometimes hard to see on the

And dividing 541,606 by Stephen's 36,726 stock cars yields 14.74 loads/car for a year -- about 25 days per carload. If you factor in the 28 hr rule for loaded livestock cars, I guess these cars spent

We use the same method. Not necessarily proud of it but I agree with you as I think it accomplishes the intended goal. fenton wells -- Fenton Wells 5 Newberry Lane Pinehurst NC

How are others doing it on cars? It's often pretty conspicuous and I like to model it...been using stray bits of repack data to do it, figuring that if my friends are reading it that closely that I

Jim wrote: "It doesn't surprise me that this would be true for 'short haul' such as from a producer to a regional slaughter house. But what about the long haul such as the cattle ranchers in Montana

FYI, Staples will start selling a 3-D printer to retail customers for $1,300.00, according to CNN Money. Will this be a game-changer? Here is the

Hi Mark, What you're describing didn't really start happening until outside of the scope of this list, and was done  by the packers partly to break unions, and partly and to get rid of rail shipment

Hi Jim, Guy's right: the total number of livestock shipped tipped to trucks in 1935. For the Chicago Union Stockyards, that date was about 1940.  For hogs, that date was more like 1929, at least

That's why the invented the reefer. The packers could Slaughter the meat out west and just ship the valuable parts and no 28 hour rule to worry about. It seemed the IC stock car fleet dropped