Richard Hendrickson wrote: I can't find in the article any mention of the single-door cars. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Yeah, I could, but that's why I wrote the article and published all those photos in the first place. Been there, done that, and I have better things to do with my time than produce what amounts

I just received in this afternoon's mail several samples of Kadee's new HO scale HGC trucks. They are even better than they appear in the photos, which is saying a lot. We can rejoice that the

Brian Chapman wrote: "Why off topic? The topic is how the railroads delivered material to the east coast building docks." True; however, I recommend we take further discussion off-list as the Navy

Trying to locate some accurate, HO scale, Vulcan trucks, as used on the Haskell & Barker, C&WI wood gondola, at the Illinois RR Museum. These were identified by Richard Hendrickson as Vulcan Trucks

You remembered wrong. WP's cars were all Pullman radial roofed. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA ________________________________ From: Jon Miller <atsf@...> What about the roofs? The ones on ebay

Obviously, I meant North Carolina.

Why off topic? The topic is how the railroads delivered material to the east coast building docks. I have a quote from the skipper who brought Iowa out of retirement for the Korean War. On a trip

Garth, What about the roofs? The ones on ebay were radial however I seem to remember the WP cars were flat roofs. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI

Brian Chapman wrote: "For some time I've wondered about railroad transportation and the building of the last battleships ever built -- the Iowa Class (Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin --

Tim O'Connor wrote: "Can anyone list which -BODY- styles are prototypical for WP, T&P/MP, SLSF?" Garth Groff responded: "IIRC, there were five body castings: double-door with end door, double-door

For some time I've wondered about railroad transportation and the building of the last battleships ever built -- the Iowa Class (Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin -- because of their great

Tim, IIRC, there were five body castings: double-door with end door, double-door w/o end door, double-door with WP plate and end door , double-door with WP plate and w/o end door, plus wide single

Garth Groff wrote Whoa Nelly! I just noticed some of those cars have wide single doors. Were single door cars always part of this line of cars? I only have double door cars. Also, they make cars with

Friends, I was just on the Horizon Hobbies/Roundhouse site(http://www.roundhousetrains.com/Search/Default.aspx?SearchTerm=50%27+Single+Box&CatID=THRF&Page=1 ) , and stumbled onto listings for RTR

David I don't have a beginning date, but I can verify that large steel plates are still shipped this way. The most recent photos I have are from 2008. Steel plate has many other uses than just

I remember when the Walthers and Roundhouse cars came out. I bought the Walthers car. Thought it was better looking. Shows what I knew! I built it with the doors open and put a bunch of scrap on the

Dave, Thanks for that good news! I don't have a good answer to your highly-specific questions, but that traffic was greater than what I once thought, and lasted a long time. Those pre-fab sections

At Rocky Ops this past year I visited the Greeley Depot Club layout. On their "bargain table" I'd guess they had about 30 of these models in kit form, for about $3.50 each. Multiple road names. Paul

Or else gag men working on "Buck Privates" with Abbott & Costello were thinking of updating Keaton's "cannon-on-a-train" bit from The General... Scott Pitzer