In past years, this is about when Martin sent out letters to potential clinicians. He'd send out the meet announcements later, once he had his clinics lined up. Joe included a call for clinicians in

It is frustrating not to see any information that hints at presentation content. Bill Welch

Yes, you're right Tony they have many different one that all look nice but a car full of them would be even more expensive. The big ones cost about $15 each! Try doing a search of duha or volny. Ed

PDF copies of information and registration form for this year's Naperville meet are posted in the STMFPH files

Another complaint about pin vices is that all of the ones I have seem to be heavier on the chuck end so when dropped they land chuck down and break the drill. If the handle end were heavier I would

It looks like the result of the classic "cornering" collision; the car was dragged by a car just a tad past the fouling point at a switch, very likely a hopper as Elden said. Note the door rods and

I'll bet you're right. The worsening track conditions led to trains tipping into one another, even when they didn't actually derail, and some cars survived with just dents, but that crease looks like

Speaking of the ditch, looks like that car's been in it! (Or maybe sideswiped.) Check out the dent two-thirds of the way up. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

On many PRR cars it was actually a channel being used for the side sill, like those X54 cars. Like Ron stated, they would cut out sections of the channel and re-weld the leg, where they wanted a

Actually, they're pretty easy to see, but they are turned inward so they don't look like channels from the outside. Lots of cars built after the mid-fifties had them, and sometimes if you look

Ron, do you have a photo of this channel that you can share... I'm stymied as to where that would be located on the car... TIA, Clark Cone [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

_____ Very interesting: Cars 3000 and 3001 were 40' cars and appear to have welded sides, not riveted, although that is an assumption on my part, not clear evidence. If someone out there knows more

From a broader perspective, T&P had 180 50' RBL cars built 1954-1960 (plus some built later). The doors on these two cars are listed by MoPac as being 9'0" opening (and 3439 cuft, by the way). MoPac

One cheap home-interior motif was known as "Early Orange Crate." (Perhaps the PRR's reputed poor performance with perishables was because they thought it was just furniture in those reefers?) Scott

Tom, I haven't seen a photo of these two T&P insulated box cars, but T&P had a fair number of 50' insulated box cars on the roster built around 1955-56 having chrome-yellow sides and black ends. I'm

In 1950 the T&P rebuilt cars 41429 and 41438 into bunkerless refrigerator cars. The company diagram which is the source of the information I have tells me that the cars had an IH of 9' 61/2" and cu ft

Bill, it's almost certain that they did not. By the time the maps began to be applied to repainted cars in early 1940, many Bx-2s had already been rebuilt or were in the shops for rebuilding, and

Paul Lyons wrote: Interesting if someone else is now carrying Duha. As recently as last winter, the Duha web pages identified JWD as their U.S. outlet. Maybe Smokey Mountain is getting stuff

Tony, I have never heard of Duha, but immediately knew there stuff looked familiar when I went to the web site. This must be there American outlet www.smokeymountainminiatures.com. I have a bought a

Can't say "no" for sure, Bill, But it seems unlikely to me. The program to rebuild Bx-2s into steel-sheathed cars (with different class designations) began in 1937, and the maps were introduced in