Sunshine make a model of one style cars...Mt Vernon blt? Maybe Mr.Hayes has the flyer up on his website? Clark Propst

The C&O built 5 alum hops and 10 alum box cars in 1948 Al Kresse

On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:20 AM, tbarney2004 wrote: Sorry to nitpick but the 250Fxx tender classes generally had 3 axle trucks (with one exception that I know of). IIRC, the trucks on the FD2/FW1 were

WECX 200 was the first US Schnabel car. It was built in June 1957 for the Westinghouse Transformer Div. by Greenville Steel Car Co. It was built because power transformers grew too large for

John Thompson wrote: "The Berliner website includes the following reference, but it's not clear to me whether it's a Schnabel car or a heavy-duty flat car: -------------- Photo (and blowup detail)

The PRR FD2 "Queen Mary" flat car was an all welded, 250T capacity depressed-center heavy duty flat. Utilized 4, 4 axle trucks with span bolsters. Trucks were salvaged from scrapped 8 axle "long

I cobbled it up the best I could when building mine: http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/modeling/StLBM_gon.html Jerry Glow extension kit to his early MoP kits is shown on Page 219 (Figure 225) of

Malcolm Laughlin sent: NEED SOME MODELING DATA:1950-1956 NORTHEAST USA(PENNA-NY) Coal for the steel mills of Buffalo out of coal county(WvA/Va/ Ohio/Ky)would have moved in whose coal cars other then

Jim, Your list is wonderful. I use it often. Is there any way I could help you get scans done? I have a complete suite of scanners and the software to get them ready to post. If I can help,

Charlie, Have you built one of these? If so, can you give me some idea of the set up for the B-end, or send me a digital photo? That's my main problem. I did not mean to over criticize Sunshine,

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Thanks to all (so far). I had seen the reference to 1957 but didn't know if that was the first such car in the US or not. The Berliner website includes the following reference, but it's not clear to

List, In replying to Jerry's question regarding the lack of information for Martin's MoP 52'6 Gondola (Kit #70.10), I mistakenly confused it with the earlier MoP and STLB&M kits Martin produced in

Group, Just received the Naperville flyer and its auto traffic theme sent me looking into my Wabash auto traffic file. Below is the Wabash to DT&I interchange at Delta Ohio for Jan. 25, 1947.

In addition to the others mentioned, add GN 2500 to the list. Built in 1945 by GN's St. Cloud shops, and scrapped by BN in the early 1980s. Sincerely, Robert D. Heninger Iowa City, IA

Jerry, The "B" End of the STL&BM 48' Gondola which Martin put out as an extension kit to his early MoP kits is shown on Page 219 (Figure 225) of the 1940 Car Builders Cyclopedia. It has what appears

I found the excerpt below from the following website: http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/rrschnb2.html#schnmisc "* - Spelling of the Name: SCHNABEL vs. SCHNABLE - "Schnabel" is the KORREKT

WECX 200 photos at: <http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/cars/ptdx200/wecx200.html> The c1957 photo in the middle of the page look like the same shipment as in the book. Richard

It looks like the Schnabel may have just slipped-in at the end of the Steam era... "100 Years of Railroad Cars" (Walter Lucas, © 1958) has photos and plans for WECX 200, a 250-ton Schnabel built in

Add M&StL, Rock Island and Alton to the list. Gene Green