http://www.atlasrr.com/HOFreight/hobranchlineboxcars.htm FYI Jerry Albin

My apologies to all. Apparently during my conversation with Ed, I confused what Ed was telling me about the use of Cor-Ten steel. Only the BS cars were Cor-Ten. The TC were definitely not. I am

I too received the Southern Gons from SMMW and they are superb! Both the SOU Gons and the TC Boxcar come with instructions on a mini-CD with full color instructions. I think one was 14 pages

Denny, a 1 oz load is about 1/2 the typical load of a freight car. There are also rolling dynamics involved. And under load, the shape of the bearing and journal, and the materials, makes a big

Tony Yes, I have found that too... except for the roller bearing monsters. Those go into the "gondola scrap load parts" box... Tim

Tim O'C inquires about the effect of weight on truck rolling test data. I do not routinely test truck rollability with/without weights, although I do so on occasion. My reason for not doing so is

Charlie Vlk wrote: "'Back in the day' of early Japanese brass supposedly a model was built with a fold line from the reference blueprint faithfully rendered on the side of the model." We don't even

Andy- No confusion as Equipment Diagram Book Pages did not come up in the discussion and are a different aspect beyond the construction drawings we were talking about. It has been correctly pointed

Yes they did - I have them too (somewhere under some poor old Athearn PFE refrigerator car). Back then I thought it was neat as heck! It just made me laugh when Kato announced the "first time ever in

The link I have does not work. Can someone please provide a working link to this Oct. Chicago area meet. Thanks very much, Clark Propst

Tim O'Connor wrote: When I first realized how bad the recent RC wheelsets were, I tended to blame the trucks, but with Reboxx wheelsets the sideframe/ bolster parts are fine, and they roll

I am polling this list to determine remaining market interest for the Southern PS 1945 low side steel gon (Roman and Block fonts), the SR 41' flat car (built 1925) and a potential SR composite gon

lol, Ian. Yes I have some of those, I'd forgotten about them. Front Range came up with some of the worst trucks and wheelsets ever. That is, until Red Caboose wheelsets -- maybe RC found a stash of

Front Range also played with rotating bearing trucks back in the 1980s (as I recall). They were included with their centre-beam flatcars, and rolled like bricks. The caps were pretty solidly attached

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:52:47 -0400, Tim O'Connor wrote Which is one reason why this is a fundamentally bad idea even if you can put up with the sluggish performance. I installed Kato 70 ton RB on two

Gimme a break Paul :-) Until Brian mentioned it two days ago, I didn't even know there were two types! Thanks a lot, Brian! Remember my comment about no one complaining about incorrect retainer

Jeff, Athearn briefly experimented with rotating bearing cap trucks in the 1960's -- I had some as a teenager. I also have a beautiful pair of sprung, all-metal trucks of unknown manufacture, made in

Tim, Which are they--B, or B-1? Paul Lyons

Add: GN 15400, 40' double door box (postwar AAR) FW&D 8346, 40' single door box (1940 AAR) FW&D 8427, 40' single door box (1940 AAR) MONON 9383, 40' single door box (1937 AAR) GTW 591399,

I wrote: "Dreadnaught end Class X29 boxcars were in PRR 97949-103324; cars were built 1932-1934." Bruce Smith wrote: "The number series as built, 1932-1934 was 100000-103324." Bruce has the number