I'm trying to write a blog post on the Central Vermont's 40000-series Howe truss boxcars (ACF, 1924) and can't find the right term to describe perhaps the most unusal spotting features of these cars

You took the words right out of my keyboard, Al. That looks almost exactly like Tichy's truck. Tim O'

Hi, Robert - While our current sample model has the steel running board (and a missing running board support on the 'A' end), for the first run, all of the versions will have a wood running board.

This link is to site for N-scale but they have a lot of trucks to help with I.D It looks to be a barrett whitehead trucks on caboose www.visi.com/~spookshow/trucks/trucks.php Alan

I have 14 handouts left from my presentation at the recent Naperville Prototype Modelers event entitled "North from Florida" which really is about the movement of perishables from the Southern

I didn't realize you were talking about 10'6" cars. Yeah, the only 12 panel riveted 10'6" cars are from C&BT. Or you could use the old Front Range car bodies (quite nice IMO) and add Archer rivets.

Aren't the IM cars 10 ft IH. I think I have some old C&BT kits squirreled away. But I need to check the ends. Brian Carlson

More precisely, the CP cars had wood running boards. However TrueLine Trains is also offering the models decorated for the PGE and BCOL.. Many CP cars acquired second-hand by the PGE and BCOL were

Didn't Sunshine do the 12 panel DL&W cars? Should be an easy kitbash from Intermountain. Tim O'

The cars had wood running boards through out their lives. The photo in the True Line Trains ad appears to be of a built-up F & C resin kit #6440. Also the intermediate roof ribs should be less

Looks pretty darn close to me. Thanks, Roger Cox

I have an early 1950s Bill Price photo of a minibox on the WM. It has a wood running board. Larry Kline Pittsburgh, PA Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:02 pm (PDT) . Posted by:"dssa1051" dssa1051The ads for

Roger, that's an ARA cast steel truck with spring plank and elliptical leaf springs. Tichy makes a reasonable facsimile in HO scale, their stock number 3051. Richard Hendrickson

Charles is essentially correct on the DL&W cars many of these were assigned to flour service out of Buffalo. These cars represented almost 25% of the DL&W fleet in 1957. Below is some additional

*illustrated

That looks, to my less-than-expert eye, a lot like Tichy's #3051 caboose truck. Mr Cox may wish to consult Richard Hendrickson's llustrated discussion of HO freight-car trucks: please see group

I'm not the best at I.D.ing trucks but I want to replace the archbars on a couple of newly acquired Walthers C&O cabooses. Looking at pics on Fallen Flags and in several books this pic seems to show a

Ok....I went and found my NKP Society magazines covering these cars. The Spring 1990 issue did the 15000 cars and the Winter 1991 did the 18000 cars. First, there were no rebuilds of the 15000

--- In STMFC@..., Tim O'Connor wrote: From such a late photo, there is no certainty about WHO or WHEN it was rebuilt -- this work could easily have been performed by the N&W for example.

Ted's article appeared in RMC, July 2007 Scott Haycock