Some 1958 cu. ft. covered hoppers built before 1944 had steel running boards if the buyer specified them, but many (most?) had wood. In 1944, as wartime steel shortages abated, the AAR mandated

Mark, General sources for buying in bulk: -- Well-stocked local hardware stores, especially those catering to commercial accounts. -- Industrial supply centers. -- Internet sellers. Please note

Never mind. I figured it out. I did not go far enough down the page. Bill Welch

Clark Propst writes: "Was in common to put wood running boards on early 1958s?" Depends on the RR and year. The UP CH-70-1, built in 1940, had wood running boards. The UP CH-70-2, built in 1949, had

Mark, As you have already found out you need 2-56 nuts and screws/bolts of various lengths. If you buy them in brass or nylon, you could get them 1 1/2 inches long and easily cut them to length.

Mr. Hendrickson: You had mentioned in a previous post your upcoming presentation at the Naperville RPM meet concerning HO scale trucks. Will you be making this presentation available for those of us

There are a couple of administrative issues to mention this morning. First, I was looking at the message from Denis Blake regarding the Savannah RPM meet and inadvertently sent his message again.

Reply right from your browser then you can change the subject line. John Hagen From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of cepropst@q.com Sent: Sunday, October 07,

Clark I went to the website but could not navigate my way to the schedule. Can you share the address for the schedule? Thank you Bill welch

Good Morning, I'm looking for some advice. Typical every project I work on includes a trip to the LHS for screws and / or fasteners of some kind, 2-56 for trucks etc. This is the expense way to

Just looked at the schedule posted on the website. Seems many like subjected clinics are on at the same time making it difficult to see all the freight car clinics. Some clinic shown only once making

Replying from the YAhoo website doesn't allow me to change the subject line? I was just looking at photos on the first batch of M&StL 1958s. The running boards in photos appear to be wood. But, the

Rob, It has always been my belief that these cars were black, but I have nothing definite to show it. I seem to recollect seeing one show up in the background of a color photo or film, but I

They also tended to swap numbers around for no apparent reason. The 10000-64999 series cars do NOT seem to be the same as the 60000-60399 or even the 60000-60999 cars that pop up in the GARX listings

Hi guys, These reefers are a tad more complicated than you think! The cars were originally NKP 60000-60399, built by MDT in late 1922. They seem to be most similar in construction to NYC

Dave Sieber wrote: Some leasing companies did not always list numbers of cars in all of their ORER entries. GATC was certainly among them. Whether this reflected changing leases or cars out of

Richard, Greatly appreciate the photo showing what looks to be a GARX 1927 41ft reefer lettered as 'Assigned to service of Nickel Plate Road' as in the Champ HR-1 decals. However, that 1939 photo

Hello, I would like to add to this discussion, that the Milwaukee Road had at least two of these frame less tank cars in company service. They were X907844 and X907727. The latter car was

Fred, I forwarded your request to the MER James River Division On30 group. They had some made for there rolling stock, not sure if it's true to the prototype. I have one set that James King

Dave, I have nothing on the Monon but I am sending you, attached to a separate e-mail, a scan of a photo that shows a GARX Nickel Plate reefer in 1939. However, I think it's safe to assume that