Ken Montero wrote: Yes, I did that and it was pretty easy. Tony Thompson tony@...

Roundhouse (Model Die Casting) made such a truck (outside brake hanger) as a part for a kit of B&LE hoppers. The trucks were part no. 2919, "Roller Bearing (heavy duty)". Source: Walthers 1984 HO

Well said, Tim. I follow the same principles. Tony Thompson

I was giving some thought to these trucks, wondering why high capacity cars (85 and 90 tons capacity) of the pre-war period all seemed to use clasp brakes while our modern 100 and 125 ton cars don't,

You might want to check Corey Bonsall's products on eBay. He sells the D&RGW/UCR heavy duty gondola trucks which appear pretty similar. Todd Sullivan

Hi Bud, I haven't been able to find drawings of those specific trucks, but like Tim mentioned, they were also used on the Carbon County Railway 3 bay hoppers here in Utah. I had found some drawings

I’d like a B-1b. Contact me off line at summers1218@... please.

Tim, As I said, Jim Eager's book shows photos of both a 10' and a 10' 6" IH car from the leased D&RGW series. It was apparently a mixed bag. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

So after a bad paint job, then trying to strip them and warping the sides. I scraped the first ones, made new castings and starting over. The cars are available. For $30 you get the sides, ends,

Tim O wrote: > Exactly one railroad bought 10-0 IH PS-1 box cars with 7 foot doors - the New Haven. And they bought 1500 of them! Did somebody say 7 foot door? Isn't that what the old Kurtz Kraft,

I make a small contribution ($3) to the INTERNET ARCHIVE each month, because they preserve much of what has been lost already!!Yay for the Wayback Machine!! :-)

It looks like a complete version of steamerafreightcars.com from 11-30-20 (as well as earlier copies) is available on the Wayback Machine. I didn't look in every nook, but it seemed complete to

So it does. My bad. Or McKean's. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

In the past few months, I've frequently looked to the "steamerafreightcars" website for comprehensive prototype data. Today, I was surprised and concerned to a notice that the domain name is

If you have any success making the trucks or having trucks cast in resin (e.g. F&C) please let us know. :-) I believe D&RGW also used trucks of this type on their 70 ton

I'm fairly sure that's a "Colonel McCoid" photo of PRR 65356 from San Diego, from Bob's collection. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

My Yarmouth N&W B5 boxcar came with these trucks and I am impressed with how well these resin trucks roll with IM wheel sets. Bill Darnaby

Unfortunately the 6 foot door disqualifies this model. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I have images of SIX of the 50150 to 50499 cars and all them are 10-0 IH and have 7 foot doors. Exactly one railroad bought 10-0 IH PS-1 box cars with 7 foot doors -

Bob, These trucks are PRR class 2D-F24, Buckeye All Service Cushion trucks. F&C made these in resin as an add-on for their X37B kit. They were only used on about 100 X37B and some X38 cars on the PRR.