I have a set of brass Chrysler trucks (Somewhere). I bought these years ago and forget who the importer was they afre sprung and have faifrly complete brake detail. They were not inexpensive American

Railroad Prototype Modelings, Vol 2, page 14 has a photo of AA 90168 that clearly shows a Miner power handbrake. And this link will take you to a color photo that shows a partial view of the end of

There’s a couple scenarios that come to mind when the origin agent or waybill clerk adds junctions between roads. Bills of Lading could have a ‘shippers route’ or an ‘agents route’. A

Ken O'Brien wrote: Brian Sones replied: Use of the Twin Star parts for the Chrysler trucks was shown in a blog post of min awhile back. If you’re interested, here is a

Al Thanks, I’m on the road but have PRM V2 at home. I’ll look when I get home -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

This is true, and one certainly sees waybills without junctions identified, doubtless on account of what John states. However, the waybill form clearly states “show each junction and carrier in

Prototype Railroad Modeling Vol 2 pages 2-42 have a description of the AA single sheathed boxcars and a review of the dates the cars were changed to AB Brakes. If you are an AA modeler this book is a

Ken, Contact Twin Star Cars on Facebook. He makes a casting of the spring and shock assembly. You mill off the spring assembly of your trucks and then attach his casting. He will even do the milling

Listers, I found an undec BL HO 50'Plug Door Boxcar of the GARX persuasion at the W-S RPM meet. I have the Duryea underframe update covered (I think), but have been bamboozled in my search for the

Might want to check that coupler spring. It really stands out. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Bob Thanks! -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

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Charlie: photos on pp. 12-13 of Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Vol. 17 show three Ann Arbor cars. All are AB brake conversion. The earliest is dated 1946. None show vertical brake staffs. One appears

I’m building a Westerfield USRA SS boxcar and will decal for an Ann Arbor car. The time period is post WW2. Did these have a vertical brake staff or Ajax style brake. Thanks -- Charlie Duckworth

I don't have any waybills, but I do have about 400 telegrams from 1950-51 regarding the movement of MAIN cars that were interchanged between the SP and RI. First, the Western Military Bureau in

Steve, Tony, Since the Rock and SP proper only had the single interchange point which happened to be at Tucumcari writing the routing as RI-SP was also unambigous, at least as long as the T&NO was

Bill I’m in the guilty camp; I didn’t use the geared parts. I couldn’t figure out how they were applied in the instructions. Charlie -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

The discussion on the geared vertical brake staff reminded me of project in my pipeline. This is a Speedwitch Southern Pacific A-504 auto car. A set of etchings for this geared assembly was included

Having observed crowd funding of model trains in the UK market for 5+ years I will note that Prototype Junction was correct in the blog post - it is extremely hard to get the word out to prospective

Nelson Those are very useful I have saved them as I have a Speedwitch SP A50-4 to build. Many thanks Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿