Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Union RR also had captive box cars, which I remember well, but they did not interchange. They were called "Black Jacks". They were used to haul

2011_0409-top.jpg Greeting to all our friends and train show family. We are having our First Swap meet and train show of this year. If your friends don't get this please pass it

Todd The cars did not operate in interchange. According to Ed Hawkins' article in the October 1999 Railmodel Journal, the cars were not equipped with an AB brake system! Tim O'Connor

Wow, I had no idea Richard. Do photos exist of these cars? Todd Horton ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Wed, March 9, 2011 10:21:54 PM Subject: Re: [STMFC]

Gulf Oil Co. For some obscure reason, Gulf owned box cars as well as tank cars in the '50s. Richard Hendrickson

What road is GOC? Todd Horton ________________________________ To: Steam Era <stmfc@...> Sent: Wed, March 9, 2011 10:09:27 AM Subject: [STMFC] Prototypes for 6' 6/6/5 "upside down"

Thanks Tim, you really knoow your stuff. -- Fenton Wells 3047 Creek Run Sanford NC 27332 919-499-5545 srrfan1401@...

I just uploaded a 100%-revamped web site. Click on the link below to "go exploring". Jim King Smoky Mountain Model Works, Inc. Ph. (828) 777-5619 <www.smokymountainmodelworks.com>

Which you won't have if you subscribe in email. Andy

The Charles Winters collection, especially its freight cars taken by George Sisk, was acquired after Charles' passing by Dr. Louis Marre of Dayton, Ohio. Knowing how bad we want prints but unable to

Thanks for the heads up. I keep a supply of ladders from all of the makers handy when building resin. It seems as though the resin people sometimes throw in a ladder that is easy to get instead of

Thank you, Roger. Jim Wolf

The PA State Archives at Harrisiburg has Stanard Steel drawings for these. Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I wanted to let people know that my search for the USRA Mechanical Dept. Circular #7 document was indeed successful through the New York Public Library. For the future for anyone needing the help

Hi Bill, All of the old STMFC messages are available on the Yahoo!Groups website. So you can easily go back to find the message that you regretfully deleted. You will your Yahoo ID

There was a posting on the list over the weekend from a gentleman who displayed quite a list of freight car photos. Regretfully I deleted this before I saw the value. Doer anyone have his e-mail

Richard: Is there a more complete e-mail address for Harold Vollrath? Bill [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Andy, you can add GM&O 22000- 22419 built 1947 ACF lot 3141 L&N 19000- 19499 built 1947 PS lot 5866 ------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Carlson wrote This

I haven't seen any beefing up of the side stakes in the C&Os Cor-Ten steel 70-ton hopper cars of the 50s.  Hopper car sides previously had to deal with the same clamping forces from the car

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Nelson; The painting instructions appear to indicate that the roofs were painted, but photos appear to show only the roof seam caps may have been or