Alot of hard-copy MR magazines (& books) can be found here at good prices: http://www.railpub.com/ Andy Jackson Bellflower CA

So it's a pretty sophisticated piece of equipment? <g> Jerry Glow

A picture is worth a thousand words. Apparently this was the method used to move wheels around before the advent of the forklift. There must have been a steam powered crane to move them from the wheel

Here is a photo of a "wheel stick" in

I have for sale 22 CBCs for $50 each plus postage. If interested please respond to my Email address only and I will send you a list. Tom Chenoweth

Here is the Sixth update: Folks here is the official list as of just about #PM PST: Primary List: 1. Rich Hanke 2. Rick Devlin 3. Armand Premo 4. Denny Anspach 5. John Cantlay 6. Jerry Glow

Fred, The stick you mentioned used by brakemen to tighten brake wheels were known as "brake clubs". Brakemen used them for leverage to turn the brake wheels when manually applying the brakes to

Tim, I can date this film to at least 1954 judging by a paint scheme I saw on one of the freight cars.  Todd ________________________________ To: stmfc@... Sent: Wednesday, December

At 13:56 is an aerial view of a PFE ice reefer -- and the roof appears to be plain galvanized (unpainted) metal! The film appears to have been made in the early 1950's long before PFE applied aluminum

Bill Pardie wrote: Yes, I know of ONE photo that way, Bill. It's a Jeff Winslow shot from 1958, and by that late, perhaps PFE had moved the fan symbols. In the early 1950s, however, they were

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE BL Elden Gatwood

Tim hjas pointed out that the Branchline model is a better choice than Accurail. And that kits are available through Atlas. I was thinking of having Chad build the doors to fit the Accurail

Having obtained some Scalecoat SP Dark Olive (Special mix from Mike's Model Works) I am redoing some PFE express refers form WP car company which were factory painted in a horrendous shade of green.

Fred, Indeed! OTOH, you might want to model one at the RIP track. That would seem to be the obvious place for one. Now that I know what it is, I plan to scan a few RIP track photos to see if I can

Bruce,   Thanks for clearing that up. It is a new one on me; and I don't think I ever want to try it.   Fred Freitas ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Wednesday,

I didn't see the link, so here it is: http://www.trainlife.com/ Jack Burgess <Bob < <Follow this link, the entire magazine is online at this location < <Randy < <On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:33 AM,

Most likely used in the shop or on the RIP track to turn a wheel set 90* to move it from the repair track to the storage track or back. With the two wheels on the common axle, it's easy enough to roll

Oh boy, here I go again. After the discussion about small run resin “mini-kits” I got to thinking about what would be an easy, but fun project. The CGW bought some 50’ DD box cars in 1956 that

Many Thanks to all who respnded. I now have the article. Bob

No. It scales out to a bit over 66 1/2" long. John Hagen