Thanks Al. Victor thick walls, use dental plaster. The cheapest resin and easiest to work with is polyester. However, it is the least safe. It outgasses styrene monomer which in large quantities

Victor - If you want to be really safe and can use structures with thick walls, use dental plaster. The cheapest resin and easiest to work with is polyester. However, it is the least safe. It

This is a little topic but its seem there are folks in this group that are in the know here. I actually am not interested in rolling stock but structures. Thanks in advance Victor Baird Fort Wayne,

Bruce Smith wrote: Quite true, and a trend which continues today, even if invisible from the viewpoint of this list. There may be fewer trains today, but annual tonnages are well in excess of

already surprisingle Hi Frank In the February 1932 ORER there were 31 box/auto cars over 50' 7 5/8" IL. The MILW had 30 cars with IL = 60'0"; and the PRR had one with IL = 70'6". Both were gone by

Hi Al. No. (And thanks for the C&O information.) Best wishes, Larry Ostresh Laramie, Wyoming

Howdy Ted and all others,        Thankyou for your assistance and taking the time find correct information on these parties listed below.        To recap I need good phone numbers and

Re: Auto loading on flats: In John White's "American Railroad Freight Car" (p394, Fig 6.17) there is a full side-on photo of what appears to be a nearly identical loading arrangement. There are 9

As in the past Rails Unlimited will be at Naperville and will take all kinds of payment, possibly including bartering. I will have many HO scale models, and the newest books, including those of

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Thanks for that bit of info. I've been looking for some interesting freight car projects and a couple of ventilator boxes was at the top of the list, but I just didn't know if they would be correct

To add to Tony's response, looking at the number of cars is only half the equation. The cars being removed from the roster were small capacity cars, which were being replaced by fewer higher

Howdy!        A group of us are working to reproduce a highly detailed Central of Georgia Door and a Half 40 ' boxcar in Scale S.       The president of the Central of Georgia Historical

Hi Earl, Past 1952 and the K brake ban, you've essentially got four choices for a short boxcar on your roster: CN or CP "Fowler" single sheathed boxcars, ACL or SAL ventilated boxcars, DL&W

. . . an Hi Earl Welcome to our list! If you check the Excel file that I mentioned in my post, you will see that in the July 1950 ORER there were 23,242 short cars (from a U.S. total of 712,098 box,

Weren't there some pretty big (50+ foot) cars being built out west already before WW1? I recall reading with some surprise about some surprisingle massive cars, quite early along. Frank

Earl T. Hackett wrote: Welcome, Earl. This topic raises a number of points. First of all, the cars ran freely everywhere, so it's not as if the SW cars lived there all their lives, and

Don Burn wrote: "In additon there were a fair number of 40' wood box cars on a number of north eastern railroads in that era." Don is not the only one guilty of this example of sloppy terminology

Being very careful with my terminology (Mr Thompson) I can see that on the nearest flat car, there appears to be at least two ladder-shaped vertical frames which appear may be put into the

Earl, I don't have the references in front of me, but I believe the D&H, NH and Southern 36' box cars made it to 1950. L&N 36' box cars may have also. In additon there were a fair number of 40'