I picked up one of these in HO a while back. Were any of these cars around in 1956, say, with any of the major firms--North American, GATX, or UTLX? Steve Lucas.

Elden-- Is TKM a printed magazine, or it is available on-line? Steve Lucas. <elden.j.gatwood@...> wrote: these

Bruce, I have no suitable photos of an R-30-12-16 with Bettendorf underframe. However, I'm sending you off-list a 4/48 photo of an R-30-13-16 with twin-center-sill underframe which still had KC

Bruce Smith wrote: Bruce, PFE kept a giant list of ALL cars converted from older cars. The original (about five inches thick) is at CSRM, but I have a Xerox. Let me know what car number you want

Folks, I'm to the point of lettering a PFE R-30-16 that I recently built from a Wegman/RC kit. In looking in Thompson, Church and Jones (aka, "the orange bible") I see that this class was rebuilt

Hello List, I've been digging so far with no avail to find any photographic evidence of ACF type 7 "high walkway" tank cars in commercial service with converted AB brakes. I've checked my magazines,

In today's mail I received a flyer with information about this year's Sunshine Naperville meet. I've added it to my website at www.sunshinekits.com <http://www.sunshinekits.com/> . Just click on

Rich, That "fat" (only 33' long) 10k gal. high walkway Texaco tank looks great in the train next to my Red Caboose 10k gal. SHPX 36' tank. Gotta put an Intermountain 8k gal. tank to it for even

To all - Brian has informed us that our 1st shipment of his new Buckeye ARA truck has shipped and should be arriving either tomorrow or Friday of this week. Because of this, I have decided to allow

Guys - As usual, my freight car stuff is at home and the only computers are at the office, so here is more of a reply to yesterday's LH&StL/L&N stock car question: The LH&StL stock cars featured in

Guys; One of the things I find interesting is that people are trying much harder to "get it right" now. I remember not too long ago, going to meets, and seeing PRR freight and cabins cars

Interesting that the brake wheel shafts look like they'd be best modeled by dull brass wire! Jerry Michels **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse

Good morning: Good book. Photo is on page 37. Fair amount of freight car photos in book. Book still available at Amazon. Originally published by Friedman/ Fairfax Publishers. Frank A.

Hi, this is what I referred to on this list a few weeks ago as a "Reverse Buckeye end." Diagnostic features that distinguish them from the "common Buckeye end" are the concave vs. convex horizontal

Walter M. Clark wrote: Thank you. I also know now, thanks to Gene Green, that it's in the 1919 Cyc also. I appreciate the help. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

Tony, I can answer one <vbg>. From RPCyc Vol. 10, page 2, bottom of first column, "Simple ratchet (folding-lever-type) hand brakes were made by W. H. Miner, Union Railway Equipment, Robert H.

This is a Paul Dunn photo at Zanesville, OH, November, 1956, from the Howard Ameling collection.

This sounds like the ongoing argument about DT&I orange. A modeler should simply aim for the target as his integrity dictates. If he's able to model a given car as he determines it looked on the

Guys - Risking incarceration here! It sounds like you may be describing one of the stock car series originally constructed for the LH&StL in the late '20's that quickly beacme L&N cars when that

Tony-- Yes, the cars would have been originally painted with identical spec paint (likely matched from wet paint samples as CN did?). After all, the P-Company WAS "The Standard Railroad of the