Larry, You might want to ask around on the CBQ Yahoo Group. They were helpful in finding tank car info for me awhile back.   Rich Christie ________________________________ To:

That was my gut feeling also.  They were part of a very large order of 45-ton cars split up between four four smaller roads . . . with very long names.  I believe they were the C&O's first  coal

These are the same design as the Pittsburg & Moon Run gon in the 1906 CBD. The River Coal gons were sold to C&O circa 1910. David Thompson

I'm slowly working through my stock of Sunshine Models and one of the next projects will be two of the CB&Q FM-11 flat. The instruction sheet provided only a model photo but no prototype picture, and

Gondolas in the right background seem to read RIVER COAL. They don't seem to have enough panels to include all the letters for OLIVER COAL. As to the one gondola with the clear end view, just to the

Oliver Coal John Riba ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Sat, February 18, 2012 7:27:46 PM Subject: [STMFC] FW: Erie Docks 1910 Can any of you wizards identify

Can any of you wizards identify the peaked-end gon at the right? Schuyler ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 9.0.0.909, Virus/Spyware Database:

Al Krug (whose name came up before) has his own web site found here: <http://www.alkrug.vcn.com/home.html> Once at the site, choose the Railroad Facts and Figures. There is additional brake

I need a copy of an article from the March 2006 RMC to help me with a steam era freight car load project. I'm hoping someone on this list will contact me OFF LIST with an offer to copy or scan it for

Were retainers being used on the fatal runaway of a rio grande frt. killing the engineer ans student engineer? bernie spinelli

Dennis, Yes it was before 1960 but my neck is now on the ground beside the block and the chicken is waiting. I hastily posted what I recalled from my conversation with a retired brakeman/conductor

As another poster answered, Speedwitch made excellent decals for their B&O M-26d/e Duryea underframe conversion kits and full kits. Decals for 1945-55 and 1955-1962 are different sheets. There are

Ed Workman wrote:

The four position retainer valve used on "AB" brake systems was adopted as "recommended" practice via letter ballot in 1941, and advanced to "standard" practice in 1946. Along with the adoption of

Hello Bill, Thanks for reading my article, and I'm glad it stirred some interest. On some parts of the Santa Fe's Los Angeles Division the use of retainers was at the conductor's discretion, but

Probably a "factory painted" model. Most back then were contract painted by various custom painters. When contacted, I told them I was not interested as they generally used available decals (mostly

I remember the Overland ad, in which the decorated model had a size mismatch between the 3 and the 4 in "N-34"!

The retainers for the AB brakes system had four positions: Handle down: meant retainer was set for normal operation Handle raised aprox 100 degrees: "HP"(high pressure),when

Speedwitch had very good decals for the M26 series, D117, if you can get them. Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL

The B&O Cumberland Div. timetable dated 9/27/37 refers to high and low pressure positions on the retaining valves. The high pressure position to be used on loaded coal trains and the low pressure