Brian, interesting about CMO cars -- they are not listed in my 1955 ORER but they do appear in the 1959 listing. Evidently they were renumbered from 26001-26499 (244 cars) to 4992-5091 (98 cars) in

In a message dated 04/05/09 19:21:23 Eastern Daylight Time, bnchmark@... writes: My DL&W diagram book is only good until 5/1/52, and these cars were built in September, 1956, so I don't

The GA drawings say 12'6" high, top of rail to the top of the running board, and 9'9" wide over side plates, 37' 0 3/4" truck centers. ....Mike

Schuyler wrote: <<Robert Federle gave the first answer, here's the second: You have paint, I'm sure. A dab on the <<tools you want to keep straight will assist. Since I am forever picking up the

Greetings group; I have searched the archives for a possible answer, but have come up short-handed, so I am firing away here. I am working on detailing and weathering some of the really nice

Bud, The AC&F drawings are at the museum, and they are stored in two locations. Gaining access to them must be coordinated with the staff at the MOT. Drawings for the specific covered hopper car

Here they are, Paul, though these photos don't show the diagonal panel roof very clearly. However, that's definitely what was on the rebuilt Bx-11s and Bx-13s, since the rebuilding started in

Mike and Ed, Thanks for the 47' length on the DL&W soda ash hopper, and yes Ed, I see I made a numerical error in my original post :-[ 18000-18099 is more like it! I am also wondering about

Ray Breyer wrote: Also remember that those were what we now would call "free range chickens," much tastier than today's factory product. It's no accident that poultry cars were used to ship the

Good grief! Did I really write that??? I should have said "Grain doors," not "Grain." I'm sure no one was confused but a little proof-reading isn't so hard to do. Gene thinks faster than he types

<snip> And a fifth reason might be that the car was used to deliver grain doors. Grain, as you all know, were owned by the railroads which wanted them returned for reuse. Gene Green

Go to an office supply store and look for pencil grips. They are a soft sponge tube that slips over a #1 Xacto or similar round tool, providing a soft grip area. I got mine as a package with multiple

Looking for a good side or near-side view builder's picture of the pre-WW1 Virginian 55-ton FB steel gons in either the VGN 15000, VGN 16000, or VGN 17000 series. Al Kresse

Hi guys, OK, not so fast. I just quickly went through my photo stash, and almost immediately found two photos of double door cars spotted at grain elevators. One's from the Tacoma Public Library

Hi Bud, The DL&W general arrangement drawings for these show 47' 0 3/4" over the buffers, while the top of the car from the ends of the running boards was 47' 6 3/4". The inside length is 41' 0

Joe to answer your question on the early "Super C" trains a good book reference is Joe McMillan's "Route Of The Warbonnets" as there are many pictures of that train from the test runs to the end of

Richard - any chance I can get those pictures as well? IIRC, the old Mainline Modeler article on the rebuilds didn't mention any with diagonsl psnel roofs... Paul

I use colored shrink tubing. There are lots of colors available. Mike Turner Simpsonville, SC 29681

Thanks, I'd appreciate that. I know the dimensions from the ORER but can use the additional info of a diagram. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

Like Ray, I also have a small tackle box with a subset of tools for travelling. I found it easier to just buy anoter X-Acto, bottle of glue, tweezers, and so on than to keep swapping them back and