Please excuse the multiple posts. In between the flood of emails for Black Friday, Please let me remind you that we will be announcing the 2022 Shake n Take project on Saturday evening. We

HO scale can load for a PTSX (Proleride Transportation Systems) recycled steel quad hopper. Aluminum foil tops from canned drinks, mainly Sanpellegrino, and a few other miscellaneous foil sources

Yeah, funny how the bad estimates were always on the high side. Tony Thompson

Interesting, Thanks Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Open-top freight cars can also be overloaded by volume. And , this doesn't look like a scrapyard location; it's way too clean. Notice the house car coupled onto the gon. I think the

Hudson, I would agree. I tend to think that the scrap on the ground is what is left of the pile that was being loaded into the car. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, Al

I think a load of tin can scrap would be hard to overload, lots of air space. -Hudson

Fenton, I've built both. Run them for awhile then sold the Sunshine car. With the 6' door it didn't have the character of the Speedwitch model. Clark

Looks like this car may have been an overload. The scrap on the ground is an attempt to adjust the weight. Scrap dealers were notoriously bad at judging weight in my field days. Bob Allan Omaha

Tiny lengths of fat metal rod or slices of the Right gauge of hypodermic needle for tins, then model oil cans from oblong of strip wood decal led with microscale decals from a gas station set. My

First thing I thought of when I saw the photo was the clubhouse my cousins and I built on family land next to the Rock Island's Keokuk & Des Moines Division in Pella, Iowa. We called it Railroad Club

https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/memory/id/79239 A couple of 50 ton gons apparently being unloaded at the the Columbus State Hospital (aka the Central Ohio Hospital

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 11:21 AM, charlie9 wrote: Just put some Reynold's Wrap in the wife's blender.Charlie - I remember an article (I think in MR) 20 years ago, or so, about modeling scrap tin

Some of these cars apparently survived up to 1953. It looks like both the wood and steel side versions could be useful for most steam era modelers given their longevity and abundance. -Phil

KINX 104 looks like a Type 17 GATC tank car. -Phil Lee

Thanks, Claus. This photo takes me back in more ways than one, particularly the fact that my buddies and I built a "fort" along a C&NW embankment near my home in Chicago. Lots of dreams were shared

The NYC Lines built 5,000 gondolas in Lots 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336-G in 1916. They were 46-foot, 2-inch interior length with 1018 cubic capacity. The cars were originally built with composite

Just put some Reynold's Wrap in the wife's blender. Charlie

Thanks Lester, Just wondering Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Fenton no preference. Both fine kits and fun to build. Each kit builds into a different version of the “sawtooth” so both needed. The Speedwitch a little easier to build as one piece body vs.