Manfred, Sometimes I use the "Wright-Clamp", especially when building my resin kits. Also a lot of spring type clothes pins of various sizes, even the little ones for dolls clothes. As for

We'll have to ask John. ______________ J. Stephen (Steve) Sandifer mailto:steve.sandifer@... Home: 12027 Mulholland Drive, Meadows Place, TX 77477, 281-568-9918 Office: Southwest Central

PFE did this test too, with aluminum-painted roofs, and got the same result; but when they repeated the test after a month in service, during which roofs got dirty, there was then NO temperature

Aluminum began in 1956. As I understand it, the Santa Fe took two identical cars, painted one battleship gray and another aluminum, placed a thermometer inside each, then put them out in the sun for

When did the ATSF start to use silver for the MOW cars?   Michael Bishop

When

The instructions to the Sunshine Santa Fe Work Train set (our of production) state "battleship gray paint is a matter of choice. The Budger Primer is a suitable shade of gray. This gray has a blue hue

Hi all, I have a few freight cars which are too "old" for revenue service on my 1950 ATSF layout. They would be perfect for MOW service and I'd like to repaint them "battleship grey" as they should

I have conflicting information about when the Railway Express Agency started to use the red diamond on its freight cars. One source claims it was 1955, while a book and decal set claim it was

wrote: says "PERFECTION - HANDBRAKE". Then there is a 10-5-37 AFE on "Equip 500 ore cars, series 88000-88999 with power hand brakes". An 8-27-40 AFE took care of the remaining 500 cars. A diagram

GN 88789 GN 88500-88999 series built by Haskell & Barker 1920. A 1927 diagram says "PERFECTION - HANDBRAKE". Then there is a 10-5-37 AFE on "Equip 500 ore cars, series 88000-88999 with power hand

As was reported earlier in this forum, Klasing Hand Brake has been sold to New York Air Brake. Wayne Klasing is going through the files and sorting out material to be preserved, material to go to New

Grp; anyone modeling pre-1918 should check out our three new kits at www.silvercrashcarworks.com <http://www.silvercrashcarworks.com> . The 3 cars are an ATSF 28' boxcar which ran until 1917, a

Neat historical coverage. Thousand Oaks sure didn't look that during 1983-86 timeframe. Al Kresse And my hometown hadn't even acquired its current name (that came during the anti-German hysteria

Neat historical coverage.  Thousand Oaks sure didn't look that during 1983-86 timeframe. Al Kresse

Ed Jeff English posted once that he had a builder photo of a 703-B with 7 panel Superior doors. But he didn't specify a car number. In addition as you say various 703-B's were assigned to

Bob Chaparro wrote: Interesting photo, Bob. This is clearly the American Beet Sugar Company plant at Oxnard, built in 1898; there is a photo of it in Signor's _SP Coast Line_ book, page

The quality of the photo is not too good but on Page 17 in the document on the link below is an image of Ventura County Railway sugar beet gondolas. I believe the image was taken in 1915 or earlier.

Mark, While your question is innocent enough, the answer isn't easy to determine with the available data. Perhaps Jeff English has more data to offer based on information beyond what I

I have an O scale MKT wood reefer from Chooch on ebay now. Old and out of production. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail, and any