Hi James, The Santa Fe did indeed paint wood running boards the same Mineral Brown used for the rest of the carbody except the roof. The black roofs were phased out in the 1950s, but cars originally

James. On most of the ATSF boxcars that I have ever seen with the black anti skid paint on the roof the wood roof walks were brown. Michael James Mischke <jmischke@...> wrote:

I just built a Red Caboose AAR 1937 boxcar, with Santa Fe Chief lettering with map. The wood running boards and corner grabs are the boxcar body color, a mineral brown. The roof is black. If this

List/Mike, Sorry for overlooking this rule. Fred Mullins $30 actual request rather offline, the be seller to an states. in received not should on the

I currently have a number of items listed on eBay, in particular a good size collection of S scale locomotives and freight cars -- they are scale, not Hi-Rail or American

New today. Not a bad price. 1. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice. Twelfth edition - 1928, Roy V. Wright, ed. Simmons-Boardman 1928, 1928, , very thick quarto, 1288 pp., original

Point of trivia to Russ's earlier post stating (in regards to weighing at scales "seldom did other crafts get involved with this work"): On the Northern Pacific (in Washington at least) it was common

Andy, Thanks I will see if they have what I am looking for... Greg Martin

Curt, I can do it for you, probably even today. Send me your email address. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon Jimandlisa97225 at Verizon dot net _____ From: STMFC@...

went to the NMRA website to surf their site and it appears that they no longer on the WEB... Have these folks stop producing their products or just not on the web or is there a new website... What are

Bob, Thanks for the information. The underframe design for the kit is definitely with a "T" shaped piece rather than a "Z". Sunshine also offers these gondola kits for other railroads with the

On the old Santa Fe all originating loads were weighed, at least until contracts were started in the early 1980's. Again on the Santa Fe clerks did all the weighing, the switch crew just spotted the

Greg Accupaint ist kaput. Tot. I don't want to say any more in this forum. The good news is that Jimmy Booth is a source for "Accupaint" (Star brand) and someone else is launching a line of

I wrote: Had AAR loading Rule 4 changed by 1949? The answer is yes. I looked at ARR pamphlet MD-1, Eff. 9-1-1950, "Loading of Steel Products Excluding Pipe On Open Top Cars," and realized that it

I'm looking to see if anyone has a copy of these Sunshine kits flyers that they could scan for me. If not, then I'll send Martin a SASE. 67.5 C&O gondola 67.28 DSS&A gondola Curt Fortenberry

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /AAR open top loading rules 1 to 5 Sept 1950.jpg

At least some car designers accounted for the predictable overloading (or improper loading) by overdesigning the car. There is a photo in my book on SP gondolas of a 65-foot car built in company

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: I think this was true of switchmen as well <g>. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

I was looking to see what products were available from ACCU-CAL and went to the NMRA website to surf their site and it appears that they no longer on the WEB... Have these folks stop producing their

One explanation might have been that one end of the load was over one truck and extended toward the other end of the car. That was probably permissible since it would not place all of the weight