Guy, Disease for one thing. Livestock might inadvertently be shipped while carrying a communicable disease such as "shipping fever" in the case of the sheep that were to be my 4H project one year.

Cost, Clark, cost! Been there, done that. Besides, Ted had no information to work from; no drawings, no known extant example. And, unlike Ajax, each new Klasing hand brake had a new

Santa Fe's practice was to reload the same stock into the same car they arrived in after feeding and resting. The exception was when stock came in a foreign road car and might leave in a Santa Fe car.

John Barry wrote: John, I missed this post, but am curious what contamination(s) you are referring to? Guy Wilber Reno, Nevada > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Dennis wrote: I cleaned out the residual wax and degreased it, and flattened out the cupping, but did no hand finishing of any kind. Tom Madden

Thanks Tom. This is exactly what we need to make judgments on the merits of the process for a given project... Price, a poto of the FINISHED PART, and a discussion of what turned out better than

Thanks Tom, and Brian! I have that magazine and the RP cyc on hand brakes. Should be able to make a representative model now. Always wondered by Ted never commissioned any of the 'lesser' known hand

Hi Dave--For years I called them Creco doors, too, but that changed with the arrival of RP CYC 24. In Pat Wider's article the PRR X28/29 doors are called "A.R.A. car builder flat panel doors". Photos

Bob, those 3-panel doors were made by CRECO, the Chicago Railway Equipment Co; they were the predecessors of the Superior panel doors. As Steve noted, the PRR X28 had double doors in a

Hi Bob--That is a PRR X28 with a door-and-a-half. A better photo: http://prr.railfan.net/freight/freightphotos.html?photo=BuildersPhotos/X28_58468_A34_BillLane.jpg&fr=clX28 Steve Hoxie Pensacola

Above the flat car in the image link is a boxcar with a six-panel door. Anyone know what kind of door is on that

-------------- The parts were finished and shipped on Wednesday 9/19, as advertised. I received them the next day (yesterday). To reiterate, here's what the design looked

Thanks for the info. Glad to see he is among the living. Do you have any recent contact information? I haven't received a reply from his e-mail address with sympatico. Ed Mines

As of noon today, the speakers at Naperville 2012 are Jack Burgess, Sam Clarke, Bill Darnably, Paul Dolkos, Jeff English, Glenn Guerra, Ed Hawkins, Richard Hendrickson, Tony Koester, Pierre

I will be doing a presentation titled something like "North from Florida" showing how produce moved north from Florida and other southern states via Fruit Growers Express to the Terminal Markets in

Ted replaced the side sills with deeper ones, and left the hand brake off his model until the correct Klasing brake wheel becomes available. He also used InterMountain's ASF trucks. If you find a set

I can tell you that I'll be doing a clinic on some options for modeling Wabash equipment. And I'll be selling kits and detail parts on Saturday. Pierre

All I know for sure is that I'm giving an updated version of my Santa Fe "Fast Mail Express," talk, illustrated with my efforts to model representative train consists from 1947. These include express

Clark, I'm at work and don't e my references but Ted covered this car and other 40 ft DD auto cars in vol 2 of his railroad prototype modeling magazine. It would have the answer. Brian

In the past week or so I been working with Jerry Glow to make some B&O C16 (M53 in express service) decals for me. http://www.lanestrains.com/B <http://www.lanestrains.com/B&O_C16_Express.jpg>