Looking thru the B&M car disposal records (coming, eventually, to the web site), one thing I noticed... Up thru 1930, cars were noted "sold for scrap" Starting in 1931, cars were noted "Retired" (or

George, Simply put the coupler "up" and apply a few drops of water and the glue will soften and you can "fix" your mistake. Let the water sit on it for 15-30 minutes - or "as long as it takes".

One of the greatest dis-incentives I've heard of was the various railroads' reluctance to spend the premium to equip interchange equipment with roller bearings. The thought there being that the

Any idea why the entire loading platform (in front of the NWX reefer, to the right of the pickup) appears to be on wheels? (look at the bottom-right, near the front track) -- Ken Akerboom

That's an interesting car for sure. With Pierre's oil canning effect that would make a neat HO scale car. Did those cars make it off line at all or where they in dedicated service on specific

I have a friend whose seven year old son "purchased" an N Scale layout complete with equipment that is in the future for this group. I needed to attach a Micro-Trains 1015 coupler to a

Bob, The presence or absence of an upper deck does not change the class. K7A stock cars were convertible. I have modeled one without the upper deck, as written up in TKM. My guess is that they were

Photo: Damaged NWX/Canadian Club Reefer 14471 (1935) Photo from Helena History website: http://www.helenahistory.org/liquor-warehouse-in-ruins-1935.html Caption: “Talk had already begun by April

The car to the left of the K7 is a K8. As the the K7 vs K7a: It looks to me that the notches which would retain the cross members bearing the upper deck are empty, that is, no cross pieces hence no

Had I been looking at my emails yesterday, on this topic I would have observed that depending on the railroad, cabooses were painted red, white on some roads, and as well know, blue. Happy Fourth

Group, Does anyone know what happened to the presentation material on these cement gons from the late Ron Parisi? He had done a great amount of research and modeling as well. Billy

ugh... It's back. The term bearing in the broad sense means a method to support the relative motion of one surface against another - a bearing surface, usually under some manner of "load" that need to

Claus, No need to try to decipher the markings. The only possible cars for the right-hand car would be K7 or K7A. Since the car to the left is a K8, that makes the car to the right a K7A due to the

 Hi Bob and List Members, I think I can just make out the class marking as K7a on the right-most stock car. My memory (could be wrong) is that these cars were rebuilt from class X24 auto box

I disagree. By "definition" a bearing is something that bears a weight, if words mean anything. I have heard railroaders use the 'friction bearing' term. Terminology in

-- Chris Barkan Champaign, IL

 Hi Bob and List Members, To my somewhat inexperienced eyes, this gon looks like it may have started out in life as a USRA mill gon (or clone of such). Do others agree? Claus Schlund

iirc the Nickel plate went over to some kind of bright red in 1948 or a bit later. In the UK some pre 1923 railway companies painted just the end of the guards vans (caboose equivalents) bright red to

"before the development of the roller journal bearing” ... This type bearing was known to the ROMANS and other early historical civilizations. Their versions were crude to be sure, but they well

The Rock Island used their “Standard Freight Car Color” for cabooses until the mid 1950’s when they introduced a lighter caboose red. Steve Hile