Andy, A friend of mine underwent this kind of surgery 15 years ago and is pretty well. All my best Marcelo Lordeiro www.mrcustom.com.br trens@... Tel.: +55 21 2273-2758

Andy's a long time member of this list, and I thought most of us will want to wish Andy a swift and full recovery. Tim O'Connor

Joel, It might be easier to list the ones you would not be likely to see... For example, western roads like UP, AT&SF, CB&Q would be unlikely. PA roads like P&LE would be fairly common. I also see

Bruce, the 40 ton built-up underframe was essentially of the same design as the 30 ton built up underframe, but slightly larger and heavier. The difference is small enough to be negligible in HO

Shippers Car Line began dropping the "SHIPPERS CAR LINE" lettering above the reporting marks and numbers (but not the lines above and below) in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but did so

GENTLEMAN: 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 PRR?and

In 1948, ALCOA had surplus aluminum sheet made for aircraft that they wanted to sell. They might have clad the aluminum with pure-aluminum, but that was it. This was 6XXX series aluminum and not

Jace, Berwind did have both GLC and GLCA cars. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/index.pl/bruce_f._smith2 "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the

Steve, the only time that I have ever seen one of the cars in service was behind a GTW 4-8-4 trying to hold down to the 60 MPH speed limit over the Wabash crossing at Ashburn, Illinois. It was an

Thanks Ed. I forgot about this article. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Brian, I spelled out this information in my article in RP CYC #14 to the extent that available information would allow. Each series is shown in the roster with the type of ends specified. ORER data

Shorter URL: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/files/Central%20Vermont%20Local%20Freight/Willi1notes.jpg> Richard

There's a picture of a Central Vermont wayfreight in the STMFC list Files section that shows a Berwind hopper on a CV local in Willimantic,

Charlie Morrill wrote: Not a lot, Charlie. There weren't significant numbers of aluminum beverage cans until after 1960, which was QUITE a while after the immediate post-WW II era. Tony Thompson

I wonder how much the invention of the aluminum beer and soda pop can short circuited the aluminum industry's need to promote aluminum railroad cars. Charlie

I working on a roster of MP boxcars for my layout today. I'm interested in modeling one of the Alternate ARA SS cars rebuilds. Sunshine has kits 39.8 and 39.10 per the Sunshine price list off Jim

Steve Lucas wrote: Not likely. Alcoa had built aluminum hoppers in the 1930s and knew well what was needed. Most roads which tried aluminum cars did NOT have trouble with galvanic corrosion,

I had announced an informal gathering for prototype modelers for Saturday August 23 in Northern Virginia, but a conflict has come up so I have to postpone this event. I hope I can find a Saturday

Thanks Ed, d'oh, it would of helped if had issue 17 filed with the rest. If one search's thru the wabashhistoricalsociety messages, Bob Bowes post a couple hundred waybills, and the gacx

I have posted a series of interior shots of a SOO box car at New London WI. It shows grain lines and where brackets were installed for car loading racks. It is in photos marked Soo Box car Ron