Several roads used tank cars coupled behind the tender for additional water to eliminate the expense and delays of water stops.  Also, helpers and pushers working long grades also employed auxilary

I started a discussion regarding my warped resin gondola kit.  Among the suggestions was heating it.  I have put some pictures in the nvrr49 photo folder of how I clamped the assembly down and put

Thanks for the added information Guy. I had a feeling that for the initial installation that they would have been 8D's but I had lost documentation in a move many years ago from Herlong, CA.. I am

Another option in creating an HO scale model of the 10'0" IH 12 panel car is to remove the sides from a Branchline-Trains 16 panel 50' boxcar, excise the end 2 panels from each end, adjust width of

--- In STMFC@..., jerryglow@... wrote: "A customer pointed out a photo of EJ&E booxcar #61036 for which I would like to develop a decal set. I have no information on the car other than

Steve, like Richard I've never seen a tank car of AT&SF (or anyone else) with marker brackets, but the most obvious reason to have them would be that the tank car ran at the head or tail of a "train"

Jerry, 61036 came from series 60900-61399 built in 1946 with 12 panel sides, 10'0"IH, 8' doors -- Oops, there's the rub! No one makes a 10'0"IH box car with 8' doors, much less one with 12 panel

Jerry, I have a number of photos of those cars in various paint and lettering schemes. There was also a group of 40' AAR box cars with wide door openings built before World War II which had 10

Larry Jackman added to the STMFC real life RR experiences. I particularly found his stories interesting when they noted how crews would do what was perhaps easier rather than going strictly according

Thanks, Tom, for posting this. I've thought about Larry from time to time the last few years, since he stopped posting on the list. I was always interested to see what he had to say because of the

True, but though it may have happened in one or two unusual instances, the Santa Fe did not make a practice of using tank cars as auxiliary tenders. Richard Hendrickson

Richard Hendrickson wrote: It would obviously be essential for auxiliary tenders, as mentioned in the RA quotation. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest

This has been discussed over in one of my laser groups. The material is called PolyBak. Here is a link www.polybak.com Available for Northeastern Lumber in 12" x 23" sheets to manufacturers only.

Steve, this must have been done on only one or, at most, a very few cars for some special purpose. Having written the tank car book in the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society's

Tom It was always interesting to hear what Larry had to say -- here is a 2008 post of his concerning AAR rules for car loading: "When I was a clerk on the Un Pac At Topeka and Salina Ks we never

Joseph inquired: My question is on the P/L scheme for the door markings (if any) for; number of tubes, type rack, and location of the white bar indicating auto rack equipped. Secondly would this car

Tom Madden wrote: Thanks, Tom. The fact we hadn't heard from Larry for months made me think he must have passed on, particularly since his last post to the list, early in 2009 IIRC, said he

Those were AAR 50 ton self-aligning spring-plankless trucks. Tahoe Model Works' TMW 107 or 207 double truss AAR trucks have the correct side frame configuration and spring arrangement, and though

On the Passenger Car List yesterday, Bill McCoy mentioned "the late Larry Jackman". Further digging uncovered a Social Security death notice for Lawrence Albert Jackman, born 12/11/1931, died 6/9/2009

There's more to it Bill. You are right that the document on file specified an origin, destination, route and price. The document is called a TARIFF. Once a TARIFF was filed, however, any other