Bob, Most commercial constuction equipment would have been sent on flat cars, including cranes, shovels, backhoes, graders, as well as many construction trucks, such as dump trucks. Commercial Ag

Dennis: And here's the 1922 CBC description of the Murphy Solid-Steel roof: I don't see why "external carline" isn't a perfectly reasonable rephrasing of SRECo's own description of the design. It

Bob busses are one commercial vehicle and large trucks. You could expand and think construction equipment, ag equipment ie tractors, anything to large to fit into a boxcar. Mobile homes are another

Hello all, Does anyone have a good example of commercial vehicles sent by rail on open flatcars? (40's/50's) I know autoboxcars were more than capable of handling most shipments but surely on

Scott... I believe they were used by a brakeman to ride a car being set out or just moved if it needed to be uncoupled from the “left” end of the car. Jack Burgess

Yes. I have one of the grabs from the US Army cars that were stored at the EBT yard in Mt. Union. Funny thing is that it was just bolted to the side of the car - no sort of backer plate on the

Folks, One of the models I'm working on came with bracket grabs for the left of the sides. I know that this is an expedient use of a sprue originally designed for a different car, But it begs a

Folks, I believe the word 'rib' in the hobby context, refers to the stamped stiffeners embossed into the individual panels, not the joints between panels. A Viking roof would be an

Dennis says: I went a step further and grabbed a small collection of roof manufacturers' blueprints I have here on hand: 2 Chicago Cleveland Car Roofing Co prints from 1918, 7 Hutchins Car Roofing

A month ago, a model railroader emailed me and wrote that “I've developed neuropathy in my hands over the last 2-3 years, which makes it increasingly more difficult to do fine modeling. I was

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thanks! the photo is from 1975. no longer in revenue service. On 12/24/2021 5:52 PM, John Moore via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Very nice Lester; I was so impressed with all the detailing on the B end I hadn't noticed the grabs on the covers. Merry Christmas to all. Jim Brewer

Good catch Lester, Merry Christmas-- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Nice car! (Merry Christmas to all.) Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

After rewiew of photos I took of GN 73994 I thought was finished I realized I had not changed the molded on hatch grabs irons to wire ones. Therefore, back to the hopper roof hatches to carve off

Tim Your photo is of a modernized refrigerator car from the one of the following classes RR-23, 25, 27, 28 or 32. The common features of these classes are the 3 inch top lip on the sides, the inset

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 04:41 PM, Dave Parker wrote: F&C calls them "external" in their their description of the B&M's 72000-series XM-1s, and that has always seemed descriptive enough to me. YMMV.I

definitely a scanner illusion On 12/24/2021 12:27 PM, D. Scott Chatfield wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

The SFRD car in Tim O's photo appears to have external ribs. Optical illusion? Scott Chatfield