I would speculate that a lot of industries and freight houses assume a center door on a 40' boxcar. An offset door (center door sealed) might not line up with industry doors. Also, freight

I believe this law was the basis for litigation that led to a Supreme Court decision declaring it to be a violation of the Interstate Commerce Act and therefore, unconstitutional. Jim Brewer Glenwood

F&C makes a one-piece body resin kit for the GS gons with the brake wheel on the "modern" side (The Bowser is correct for very early cars before the standardization of safety appliances). The cost

How long would there be PRR gons in pre-circle keystone paint? I read somewhere that adoption of the CK scheme was pretty rapid, but I wonder if my GS gon in pre-ck paint would be still be around a

Yes. Arizona had a law limiting freight trains to 70 cars and passenger trains to 14; in the forties the SP tested it, and SP won. The law dated to 1912; I don't know how consistently it'd

Folks, Maybe this a new subject? Do we have any information on State Legist's attempting to mandate maximum number of freight cars allowed per train? Andrew Dow's great N&W Coal Car book refers to

Dean; The guys have supplied all the details, and I am currently building one of the X26C. It is a very nice kit; far better than earlier resin kits. The one-piece body is crisp and clean, with

Joel wrote, Elden replied I assume this is an HO scale discussion? The Athearn car is "good" for C&NW and PRR among others, but as Elden notes, the body is a bit too thick and of course, it could

Joel; Plastic only? Already painted and lettered? There is a plastic overly-chubby 4-truck HD flat made by Athearn that somewhat resembles a group of those cars made for MILW (and others)

gentleman: was wondering who makes a rtr heavy duty flat that fits within our era,modeling the tail end of steam(1955-1960)and need a heavy duty flat(s)not depressed center flats but flat

Since Ted identified it as KCS, I found two excellent scans on my drive -- one is an L&A car in full passenger colors (L&A 36148) and the other a Jim Sands photo of a KCS car repainted completely

Actually, the car in front (CRWX 284) and the one over by the water tower are very early GATC products. The running boards aren't terribly high (not like a UTLX Type X,) but the giveaway is the

Dean, First of all, the $50 H25 Hopper, if you order direct by phone to F&C, you get buy one get one of same or lesser value free. So the $50 H25 Hopper, can really be $25 each. I have both the

Dennis Storzek, in addition to providing a very helpful answer to my e-mail, wrote: Thanks Dennis. I appreciate it - and the advice. If its any consolation, I'm working on it. Age old problem -

out. Schuyler, I have downloaded the original from the library of congress and it's about double the size of the Shorpy image. Reading off that one wasn't so hard. I will add that Shorpy did a nice

Bob Witt wrote: "I recall there was an article and drawings in Mainline Modeler about the KCS 50-ft cars." "KCS baggage and express cars" by Nicholas S. Muff, Mainline Modeler, August 2001, page

Would someone on the list know where the depot photo collection from H.D. Conner end up? I thought it was SMU, but did not see it in their listing. Thanx, Gene Semon

Here's some history on forklifts and their development in the US. General History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_truck? the PRR portion is for the SPF's in the crowd. I believe that Clark

Ben, My brain got stretched just going to the AMC roads >> adding the Erie, NKP and PM. Adding the B&O is too much also. As you get older, multi-tasking gets harder it seems. If I have a Pennsy

Al Kresse wrote: "Class X28 and X28A alone means little to me. The C&O changed owners and classes so many times that I gave up on grouping FCs and have stayed more specific." That may be true for