Try the Tichy set. It has laa that stuff. Fenton Wells steve.sandifer@...> wrote: -- Fenton Wells 3047 Creek Run Sanford NC 27332 919-499-5545 srrfan1401@...

Most of us in the TOC period use the Grandt NG air brake set with both the rachet and chain. The narrow gauge used standard fittings on their cars so it is accurate for standard gauge house cars of

Does the Vertical Staff and Brakewheel set have anything besides a piece of wire and a wheel? I find myself backdating some cars to vertical staff and really need the ratchet for the top of the car

It would be great to get them with out the floors for something like three sets for $3.98. Jim Fellows

Tim, You can get those parts from our generic "Boxcar Detail Sprue", #161 molded in black or #162 in mineral red, two sets with four 2-56 screws included for two bucks. Some of the other detail

Gene, the 60" herald is too modern your Sept 1950 modeling date. http://www.intermountain-railway.com/ho/html/45801.htm Tim O'Connor

If it came with the AB valve and reservoir I'd buy enough for a couple hundred cars -- I have a lot of old Athearn kits and this would be a very quick and effective upgrade before selling them on

Accurail is showing a new use for the brake piping they supply on the AAR 41' gondola kit. They are selling the part separately to mount on their 40' boxcar. I tried one on a Accurail underframe I

Hal, Thanks much for directing me to that explanation. This topic is unrelated to freight cars so I am ending my part now but I am grateful for the explanation. Gene Green

The Intermountain #45801 Northern Pacific 10'-6" Modified AAR Boxcar P/L scheme appears to be too modern for September 1950. The reweigh symbol and date DL 1-64 also tends to made me suspect it is

Class Ara, the sample box that PRR built in 1917. David Thompson

That is everything in the collection which is available. The collection is still being catalogued. There are a number of 1 car classes which are not in the collection. As I understand it, most of

Allen Cain wrote: boiler by passing steam thru the venture throat which develops the suction pressure to move the water." Mere siphon is not enough. The pressure of the water entering the boiler

Dave: If you add a fish belly underframe and make up an original USRA roof you can make a Frisco rebuilt car from the Tichy kit. Jerry Glow makes decals for this car. He also makes an excellent P&LE

The general arrangement and lettering drawings listed on the PRRT&HS web site are a very small fraction of the drawings that are on the microfilm. The PRR microfilmed nearly all of their drawings ca.

When Bob Buck was running the show he called me to say anytime I wanted to come he’d have tables for me. We went once, got caught in a snow storm and minus degree weather and never went back. With

I have both a hard copy of the 1946 Cyc and the Vintage Reproductions DVD. I bought the DVD to reduce the amount of handling for the reasons mentioned by Dennis Storzek. I hadn't noticed the missing

Has anyone completed either the 102.2 or 102.3 kits from Sunshine? Please contact me off list. Thanks Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

The heck with the rivets, look at the bottom mounted rollers on the doors!!!!! Could we have at last found the prototype for the old Athearn Blue Box cars and their claw like rollers????

Is this a comprehensive list of their holdings? The car I'm looking for wasn't included in the index. David Thompson