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

Rick Aylsworth wrote: Good statement about HSLA steels, the great majority of which do NOT have unusual corrosion resistance. In the corrosion-resisting steels, the rust doesn't really

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Good points, Jim! It is very interesting why the resin kit makers (or their pattern makers) have chosen not to pursue more of the "intermediate" classes

Hi all, Cor-ten is only one type of high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steel, and not all HSLA steels have corrosion-resistant properties. So the use of the term HSLA does not automatically mean Cor-ten

Hey, all I have is a Xerox copy of the magazine pages, and given the contrast gain inherent in photocopying a halftone, the images are most definitely black. :( I don't think the originals were

Hi Jon, "detergent" oil was developed for systems that actively filter the oil, like a car engine. The detergent additives keep particles suspended in the oil so they will get filtered out. In a

Using my compressor (used to airbrush freight cars;-) ) I have often wondered why they need to use non-detergent oil? -- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax--Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI

Hi Chuck, I made a painting fixture for couplers by screwing alligator clips to a strip of wood. I just clip a coupler into each one and then hold the wood strip to spray them. As an added

Dennis, Please tell me that the photo on page 26 is in color and that the cars were black!! Seems to me that the cars when built or in service in the late 40's were balck. Yes, I am aware that