Tom, Side, spun. Actually, piano wire is way cheaper. Just cut it on the diagonal with a cut-off wheel, then grind on a long flat point. It's an easy way to make a bastard single lip cutter, but

Philip Dove wrote: [Snip] Whoa! Let's hear more about this. Are we talking about sharply pointed needles with the hole in the side of the tapered tip, or ones that aren't tapered and the hole is in

The spring plank is/was a channel section that runs between the bottom of the side frames, each end located directly under the spring seats. These were sometimes made from structural channel,

Tony Higgins wrote: Tony, Richard is on his way to Cocoa Beach today and won't be replying, but I'll see if I can help. The spring plank was under the springs and ran across between the two

I went to an NMRA clinic in St Louis or Kansas city, where IIRC Leslie was doing a clinic on weathering brick structures with makeup, the results were extremely good, and very convincing. The great

The spring plank was used to hold the two side frames together. It ran between the two side frames beneath the bolster. The springs sat on the spring plank and the bolster sat on top of the springs.

I think there was a typo in Richard's response. wrote: and The Dalman one-level truck actually succeeded the two-level design (which wasn't called a two-level until the introduction of the

--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: Richard, Thanks for your typically thorough answer. I have the RPCYC issue with your article and have studied the pictures

Hello. Here is a link to a brass HO model of a 2 dome, welded tank car by Sugiyama models. Does anybody have a reference to photos of the prototype? I think it is a North American prototype. It

I agree with Ben's assessment and have sent you a scan of a builders photo of one of these cars built by Standard Steel, which I got from Keith Retterer. Regarding the side post gussett, it's been my

I devote a chapter to freight car trucks in my new book, Coal Cars: The First Three Hundred Years, which has just been released. Bob Karig

period... Scott, Kit 109.1 S/S car with Murphy ends and wood doors will model 45000- 45399 and 46002-46999. The 40000-40999 series were 6 inches narrower than all the other S/S auto cars. Kit 109-2

Thanks guys. . . guess I'll be hunting for a copy of Railroad Prototype Cyclopedia #4! Tom

entries in for the column is for doors, steel Dreadnaught =============================================== Yes, it seems like I got part of it wrong (and I'm glad to find out.) Only the 45400-46001

I can give you a quick and dirty answer, Tom. For more detail, see my article in Railroad Prototype Cyclopedia #4. By far the largest number of freight cars on the North American railroads around

Railroad Prototype Cyclopedia No. 4 is a great resource for freight car trucks for in that time frame. Unfortunately it is sold out at the publisher. They may be some left at various hobby shops

I have some further info from my dad on pit posts at mines. He and his father delivered the posts to mines in SW Beaver county, NW Washington county, and western Allegheny county PA by truck. There

Happy New Years! I am looking for a source of information that will give me the appropriate freight truck types that were in use from 1900 thru 1941. Can anyone help me? Tom Makofski NorthEastern

One additional question on my ORER interpretation for these cars. The inside length is shown as 40'-6" for all the cars in the 1957 and Jan 1059 ORER entries I notes. are these typos, or was there a

Scott I think misread the ORER. My July 1957 entry has 3 distinct entries in the "Markings and Kind of Cars" column The first is car type, and for the Wabash cars in question is either "box" or