Hi folks, I have some RTR Intermountain Tank Cars which were special purchased. They include Frontenac, Southern Pacific, & Pan Am oils. These assembled 10K gallon cars would be great candidates for

Ted Culotta makes doors and decals for the AF-3. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla. wrote: 5 found cornered

Armand, I did an article on these cars in the Jan. 1998 Railmodel Journal. Most 40' double door cars were 10'4" to 10'6" high with 5-5 ends, and thus can't be modeled with the RC kits. However,

What are the prototypes for the Red Caboose 40 ' Auto Box cars?Armand Premo

Schuyler, Save your time on Choo Choo. Released in 1932 it opens with a Santa Fe steam engine pulling a passenger train to a stop but never finds anything for this lists subject matter. While there

Vince: We hardly qualify as a group so far! I assumed the organising of this event on Sunday night and so far it's been a busy few days but a website. Hmmm.... Stephan

Does the group have a website? .vp

There are photos of IC 176379 and 176701 in Hendrickson, "Focus on Freight Cars vol 1", pp 26-27, and one of IC 16466 in Kline and Culotta, "The Postwar Freight Car Fleet", p 47. All three

Brian, According to the 1968 Freight Car Diagram Book, 16000-16975 had vertical hand brakes applied in a 1945 repair program. The diagram for the same car series in the 1953 book doesn't have that

I am working on a stand-in of these cars from the Accurail kit. The Accurail kit is pretty good except the end should be 3/5 not 4/4 as in the kit. The original cars were in the 176000 series and

--- In STMFC@..., "r1ddell" <jriddell@...> wrote: The Merrilees Collection is only one of many collections in the NAC with railroad content. There are others. There is a large

I am thinking about getting the Milwaukee Road SS with wooden door and one half door automobile car imported by Oriental Limited. Does anyone know of a decal set for this car in HO scale?

Thanks for the suggestions.. Cyril Durrenberger

If the direct link is not working... Go to the Google Life Magazine image search page: <http://images.google.com/hosted/life>http://images.google.com/hosted/life and enter "Beaumont tanks" in the

Cyril, I'd suggest writing or phoning in advance and explaining what you're in search of. Archivists are always reassured to know you're coming and to have a real address, phone no., etc. in

What is the proper identification you mention? Cyril Durrenberger

Richard Hendrickson wrote: True. The Hart Convertibles had to be set up before loading, and then couldn't be later rearranged for other dumping routes, once they were full of ballast. I

Well, uh, no. The steel hoppers were Rodger Hart Selective ballast cars, and were fundamentally different from the Hart Convertible cars because the latter had to be rearranged for dumping

--- Bruce and all, Thank you for the info. The car I have is just as explained here. 'I have a NPP X31b that I picked up somewhere years ago: dunno how many runs there were. Mine has flush roof,

Tony and Richard both make valid points regarding these cars. I suspect that if a large railroad purchased these wood/truss rod cars and used them in service extensively, they didn't last long. (Those