One piece, the ones on the ATSF stock cars. I'm not counting the snap in brake rigging. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI user NMRA Life member

Hi Folks Here is the DS/SS/Steel split for January 1945, for box, auto, and ventilated cars in interchange service for U.S. Class 1 railroads and their lessees. Similar summaries for April 1949 and

Rich, As info the CB&Q did have a class system for freight cars but it was internal to the Mechanical Department and the classes were not lettered anywhere on the cars nor was there any listing

atsf@... writes: John, Are these the newer one piece truck or the multiple piece truck? If the latter it is simply poor assembly techniques. These trucks have been a problem since they were

Recently I received some IM stock cars from our good friend Andy. When installing .088 wheel sets I noticed that all the frames are out of plumb (correct word???). When the correct axle length was

All, Here is a lesson that I learned, and I thought I'd pass it along to the rest of you. I just booked my room at the Naperville Holiday Inn for this year's Sunshine Models meet. When I called

It was also excellent for painted truck tires and rubber rims of tank bogies. Haven't seen it in a very long time. Pierre Oliver wrote: called "hot rod that I do you

Jeff, Most conventions ask that the attendees call the host hotel directly to get "the rate". Chuck Hladik ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Hi, Years back Pactra used to sell spray cans of primer called "hot rod primer". It was not black and not grey but a nice dark grey color that I liked better than weathered or grimy black and it

Hello Frank, Car classes for AT&SF freight cars are listed in the book "Santa Fe Ry. Listing of Freight Cars By Class and Car Number," by Larry Occhiello. It was published jointly by the Santa Fe

I keep sweepings from my work bench in a shoe box. A delightful assortment of grunge, squiggly things and whatsits. A light smattering of the fines is debris. More is a load. Needs to be dyed or

The B&OHS (www.borhs.org) sells a book in their Company Store, "Freight Car Equipment 1917-1960" by Richard K. Daniels. It is a printed spreadsheet of information found in each annual B&O Summary of

We may Isn't it always the last weekend in October, no matter what day of the week Halloween falls on? Can't imagine 2008 would be any different. Mike Skibbe

Hiya Smith's Model Engines Rail Books on eBay has some interesting books at interesting prices, providing you are prepared to pay transatlantic postage. Cheers Barry Bennett

freight Terry Metcalfe's book "Union Pacific Freight Cars: 1936-51" has this information for the U.P. roster as of October 1951. I can send you an Excel file version, if you want it. Larry

<snip> for SAL and ACL both had freight-car classes, though Seaboard was a tad casual about them. Some cars didn't have classes (e.g. the GF&A boxcars); most of the boxcars re-built to stock cars

Ed Mines queried: What do you guys use as debris in your models? Scrap stripwood, simulating blocking, and some fine sand from the street outside. Glued in with diluted white glue. As yet, the

ED, I have put debris in most of my gons. Dirt, weeds, rust scraps, a few ferns, left over wood blocking. Almost anything could be in there, Standard scenery techniques were used. CJ Riley

That looks like the upgrade on my 25 year old Campbell Hausfeld. It still works good. Just ask my steam era freight cars. Rob Manley

In reality the floors of gons were seldom visible. By the time it had been through about 10 cycles of loading and unloading scrap with a magnet the bottom would be covered with dirt. Since the scrap