Lloyd I have seen dump bed halves on flatbed trucks. Looks like the two halves are welded together once they arrive at the mine site. They are split down the middle front to back, and sit on the

They had shots of the main parts. No assembled models. They did announce the next batch of road names. Scott Kremer

I've not seen any discussion, but did Intermountain show any samples of their upcoming offset side 2-bay hoppers? Curt Fortenberry

What I did leave out is that "37" probably meant 37 sheets... Andy L.

Just in case members don't have contact information regarding this year's Naperville gathering, here is a link to Joe's website: http://www.railroadprototypemodelers.org/ See you there! Bill Welch

Thanks and good to know, Mike, I just didn't want to incur the wrath of our moderator. Luckily George Eichelberger said yesterday that the SR milk cars although equipped for passenger train service

I decided to dig out an old wood kit and build it for old time sake. It doesn't have the correct brake piping or rigging. Would anyone have a picture of the prototype car, or maybe suggest some where

Bruce F. Smith please contact me by E-mail. Thanks LK

Fenton Wells writes: Not necessary...unless you think you might get more info or something. Several yrs ago STMFC mgt [ uh...Jeff Aley and myself along with inputs from various members ] ruled that

My boss once told me how one of his jobs as a kid was to unload coal hoppers that would be parked on a siding near the town station. He and a friend would open one hopper door, let the coal spill out,

Lloyd, Here's an example in HO (http://www.1-87vehicles.org/photo423/rr_flatcar_dump_bodies.php) presented with the knowledge that just because someone did it that way doesn't make it

Andy Laurent wrote: Good catch, Andy. I would bet you've gotten it. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Re: Southern Railway Milk Cars There was one group of Southern refrigerator cars designated for "milk" service. Cars 3925 - 3949 are described in the September, 1926 "Southern News Bulletin". Those

We may get pushed over to the Passenger Car list as this is not really about Freight cars, but....Good feedback Don. The old article on milk trains in RMC back in the late 80's or early 90's only

Please dig into your photo files for a picture of large, 20-80, Ton off road dump bodies used in quarys. I have a steel fabricator on my layout that builds these large bodies as a subcontractor to

Not sure whether discussion of this car belongs here, on the NAMTA (Yahoo North American Milk Tain Association) group or the PCL but also noticed the car when Curt Tillotson's very enjoyable two

Richard, "SLW&C" (or similar acronym) was used often on waybills to denote "Shipper's Load, Weight, & Count." This meant that these items were not inspected/counted/weighed by the railroad, and

Gary, I saw that photo as well and am interested. We have found nothing, that I know of, so far in the SRHA srchives on these cars. According to my Nov 1951 SR equipment register SR had 27 steel

Speaking of 3-compartment tank cars, Bachmann just announced what appears to be an newly tooled 8000 gal car in N Scale. The photos of the model are not clear enough to nail down potential

I created a photo album entitled "3-dome tank car" into which will appear some photos of an HO scale tank car I bought on eBay once said photos are approved by our moderator. Does anyone know the