The issue comes when you are actually using SAND as a blast media. Sand gets in the lungs and cannot get back out. I causes scarring. The disease is known as silicosis. It is similar to black lung

Make that 1972- I saw a couple on a team track on 8 Mile Road in Detroit at that time- one of them (GTW 206948)still was in the 1940s era paint with the square wafer GTW trade mark and the other had

If this is the car design referred to in "Coal Cars--The first 300 Years" as the "1905 common design" I think it would be a very useful kit,as many other RRs had them. I know I'd be willing to buy 5

I have acquired a flickr account and posted some shots from Saturday's event. I was trying to jog my memory as to how many models were in attendance but I can't say firmly one way or the other. I

I'd buy a couple. If I'm not mistaken those cars may have also been close copies (or vice versa) of cars on a number of roads such as NYC, P&LE, PMcKY, etc.  Tony Wagner

I added a file to the photo section with photos of my Tangent gondola load and car. They evidently need some kind of approval first, so the file is empty right now. Clark Propst Mason City Iowa

Scott, We posted more pictures of the C&O 86500 ventilated box and rib-sided hopper cars in the C&O HS websit's supplemental images section.  They will be the for a couple more weeks. We have a

Greetings,   I'm new to the group, does this refer to an earlier discussion?  I model a freelanced road that interchanges with the GN at Bieber (Nubieber) in the late 1940s.  I'm always looking for

cars numbers ending with 02 at Bieber 4th quarter out of 259 GN - 40 - tho 2 cars make up 30 entries, with 2-5 day cycle times. ATsf - 29 Rg/DRG - 28 SP - 17 PFE - 14 Pa/PRR - 12 BO - 8 CBQ - 7 NYC -

The below message started an interesting discussion about transporting phosphorus in tank cars. I need color information about the cars that Victor Chemical operated. According to the Champ set,

Steve & Brian,                         Westerfield brought out the PRR box car with the Van Dorn end about 3 years ago. Very distictive car. I'm using the one I bought for work

Brian, I offered a review of these cars in the pages of CN LINES a couple of issues back -- the biggest single problem with them is that the side ladders have been placed too far from the ends of the

Steve: That is a van Dorn end. See the Westerfield website for a model of the one SP car with this end. Not sure what other roads had them. Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY From:

Was surfing for something entirely different and ran into this image on Flicker. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3548/3328442021_238d85fdbc.jpg Steve Hile

Brian,I will be bringing several TLC cars for your inspection at Cocoa Beach in January.Armand Premo

Thanks Steve: From the discussion I recall on this list there were issues regarding the tooling of the TLT boxcars, which is why I have avoided them. I also have Black Cat Decals I want to use. for

C&O Historical Magazine for October 2009 has an article about railroad work done by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. The one photo showing completed freight cars (November 1923) is a

Brian-- Doug's Train's in London, ON may have a few of the Sylvan ends and rooves-- drochefort@... Have you checked out True Line Trains? They have produced CN and CPR 40' steel boxcars

Bill, I supplied the photo on the basis of which that model was built, and it is the only photo I know of an STC two compartment car. I have a number of other photos of GATX two compartment cars,

I'd like to build some correct CP and CN boxcars to that end (no pun intended) I need some of the sylvan parts. I know what I need and I talked with the Sylvan people at Naperville who said they are