Hi all - I recall decades ago seeing magazibes (books?) called "Train Shed Cylopedia"s that deat with with wlamost every thing imgainable. Whish of this seires of books dealt with cars of the 40s,

Probably the best WW II tank photos were taken by the Germans using glass plate negatives. KL

The assumption seems to be that, except for pictures taken with press cameras, there were no good photos available until the advent of the SLR cameras. On the contrary, many fine negatives were taken

Dan Smith may be amused to be indentified as a non-modeler. One look at his dozens of corrected Sunshine and Intermountain PFE reefers with state-of-the-art details would seem to bolster his

Your California hand brakes person is Dan Smith I believe.  He's a collectors and shows up at Naperville RPM Conference at times. Al Kresse

Jeff, At best I share that title with Ed Hawkins and Pat Wider as well as a fellow from California who, I believe, is neither a modeler or a participant in this discussion group but it was very nice

I have my last brass Overland Twenty-Six-Hundred for sale on ebay right now. This model is factory painted as the 2608 with window glazing also applied at the factory. Item number

Gene, IIRC, you are the "handbrake guru". I noticed the laser-cut gears that are available from the following manufacturer, and I wonder if the technology would be suitable for brake

They look good and I was just getting used to 30 dollar freight cars, now 60. Sure starts to kill that retirement check. :-) -- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax--Chief/Zephyr

If any O scaler wishes to do this conversion, I have a brass Frameless "Van Dyke" O scale tank car a friend who is not on the web wishes to sell. It is missing one of the corner ladders, but is

A prototype for the Red Caboose tank car has been preserved, along with some other fuel handling equipment, at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo and White Sands, New Mexico. There has been at

Doug Rhodes wrote: I assumed JP mistyped and meant 1959. I got my Nikon F in 1960. Tom Madden

Tim: My call of "probably" on the frame walkways was based on 1) the open rectangular grid walkways I've seen of all of the three 1970s-80s photographs I've seen of welded USAX and DODX tank cars

John, I haven't seen the Atlas cars, but if the Sunshine doors are accurate, why not just make copy castings of them for use on the Atlas model? Or is there a technical reason this doesn't work

Gene, MP had 250 "Maxend" side-discharge cars built by Standard Steel Car Co. in 1925, series 58000-58249. They were later converted into regular twin hopper cars and around 1936 received panel

Accurail Proto:HO The lid and the post positioning are direct copies from the Proto:HO box. The post in mine is a little large but I think it expanded when I drilled for a screw. Jim Hayes Portland

Folks, Can anyone point me to some information about "maxend" for hoppers? I've done several on-line searches and on various groups with no real results. Thanx, Gene

Eric, et al, Regarding brake component placement as an easy aspect to improve upon, Atlas modeled the latest and most common layout of the major brake components, which F&C/Yankee Clipper termed

Richard Although one builder photo I have clearly shows the dome step as an open grid (APEX) style, the long running boards are not clearly open grid -- for example, they could easily be a solid

I don't think anyone was trying to criticize Gordon Varney for the choices he made over 50-60 years ago. I have a soft spot for Varney and other pioneers, and I was "imprinted" at an early age with