Oops heres the link http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/toc830472.jpg Mike Fleming Superintendent, Bluff City Div. SER, NMRA President Emeritus, Memphis Society of Model Railroaders Vice President,

short post (I cut and re-used the kit's tube post for But in this position, the bleed rod leading to the left >side of the car could be damaged by the in/out motion of the brake cylinder or brake

Chuck, I think I have seen photos of the cars you are talking about on the LV and RDG. They would be from a time legal for this group. Here is a link form George Elwood's site to one with the white

Can't speak for NYC but on some of the "anthracite" roads there were a small number of standard twin hopper cars that had a permanent partion in the center. These cars were used to ship two sizes of

Ben Hom had made up a nice side by side comparison sheet of the two cars a few years

Mike,   Go to yahoo groups and look for the baby boomer freight car group. They deal with 1960 forward.   Fred Freitas   To: STMFC@... Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2011 3:10 PM Subject:

Mike Fleming asked: "Do any of you know of a group for post 1960 freight cars. I have a question concerning the 2 bay 65 ton hoppers NYC rebuilt from USRA 55 ton hoppers in 1964-65. I have asked a

Clark, As a GN freight car modeller I should have responded to this thread earlier. But I have been away from home and my collection of GN and NP info until today. I have reworked a few of these kits

I'm working on an HO scale Bowser GLa, having added wire grabirons to sides and ends so far. The kit seems to have a generic arrangement of AB brake system parts on the B end. If the kit is built

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE All; Do any of you have Speedwitch's B&LE box car model? Is it an ACF lightweight series 90201-90300 car, an XM1 91001-91500 car, or an XM4 91501 to

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Folks, Many of us old folks have limited capacity to store information in our jam-packed brains.  Cut offs are good, but should not be too rigid.  I find that there are members on this list who

Tim, Do either of the other two UP classes show up in Bill Metzger's article in The Streamliner, Vol 1, No 3? I do not have that issue at hand to check it. I also now

Do any of you know of a group for post 1960 freight cars. I have a question concerning the 2 bay 65 ton hoppers NYC rebuilt from USRA 55 ton hoppers in 1964-65. I have asked a couple times on the NYC

Tim O'Connor says: Perhaps in matters not associated with frt cars but I will say that my knowledge...or interest...regarding frt cars after 1960 is nil. Yes, some will say that my knowledge about

Tim, There IS a difference between being on topic for the list but in a narrow time frame and being outside the period of the list and off- topic ;^) That said there were auto racks on flat cars

It has been brought up that the Sunshine version of this car may not be the best choice to copy. Yesterday I put the Accurail underframe I was going to use along side the Sunshine underframe to check

UP freight cars post-1951 have been poorly covered in books & magazines unfortunately. I can surmise from scattered data that UP 506000-506114 were renumbered from A-50-21 or A-50-22 automobile box

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE There wasn't a single "flat" car, on the PRR. Most of them were actually bent, bowed, had holes in them, either by design or by use... Elden Gatwood