Thanks Ben for the information. I'll just get the R&LHS bulletin and see about trying to find decals for what ever I decide to make. - Steve To: STMFC@... From: b.hom@... Date:

Has anyone ever tried to do that? Might be a worthwhile endeavor. David Thompson

By the 70s in the Detroit auto industry inked drawings were essentially gone and "blue line prints" were shortened to be referred to as "blue prints".  The alternative copy was called a "brown line"

To my eyes the owner and road number are GATX 55096. http://tinyurl.com/4tsa6eh Catalog NumberBGE.314.OOObject NamePrint, PhotographicDescriptionView of workers unloading a tanker car on the railroad

It would seem that if your goal is to build and letter a couple of models, you would be more interested in photos - preferably taken in the era you model. The STMFC site, Speedwitch books, possibly

Steve Hedlund wrote: "I have a couple of Tichy USRA hoppers that I want to find prototypes for and I was hoping that someone has a USRA list so I could refer to. I have no idea if the R&LHS bulletin

I have a couple of Tichy USRA hoppers that I want to find prototypes for and I was hoping that someone has a USRA list so I could refer to. I have no idea if the R&LHS bulletin is accurate or not

That guy is 'poling' the car, or 'gauging' it, to check the level of liquid. He would have opened the valve some time previously, via the handwheel. See Kaminski's tank car book, p. 220,221, 223

There is not really a good model. These were welded cars. Bill

K brakes weren't outlawed until '53, so no worries. See message #82161; for more details, search the group archive for "K brakes outlawed" or similar phrase. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Hi Guys, When were K series brakes outlawed? When was it actually enforced? Would there still be car with K series brake in March 1947? That is a year I'm interested in modeling. BILL

The design appears to have been developed by the Standard Steel Car Company in 1910. They were cast by the Verona Steel Castings Company in Verona, Pennsylvania from which they got their name. They

Interviewing small bulk oil dealers on the Alma branch I discovered a lot of canned and drummed petroleum products were delivered in box cars back in the steam era. Jared Harper Athens, GA

Clover House dry transfer set 8972-05 includes the banana emblem. Graham Dean

For the tank car guys, there is also a photo in the BGE collection of a tank car being unloaded from below with a worker on the top with a long pole, supporting the need for someone to open the valve

The B&O RRHS has several more photographs and was looking to produce models of this car. My bad memory remembers the problem being no model for the prototype. Bill, is there one? Regards, Bruce D.

This scheme was applied to 100 cars (I think, documentation is thin) in 1958. I do not know a source for this distinctive logo. Bill Welch

The R&LHS Bulletin article is excerpted in MM 3/82 pp 20-27, including a roster. Not having the Bulletin, I don't know what MM excised. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Sorry Bruce but a branch into Rutland and the meandering route of the Slatepicker don't make the D&H a "New England road" to this kid, especially with so much of its early upper officer core coming

Steve Hedlund wrote: There's a complete roster in R&LHS Bulletin 128. Do you think it's inaccurate? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA