Ted, Just a sueggestion here. I love the Essential Freight Car series you have been doing in RMC. Also have used a few for modeling techniques as well as speciific cars. I suppose you

There¹s also the Athearn, part number 90392: http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATH90392 (no image on the site, but Athearn will sell parts direct; I recently bought some empty

In regard to Walther's selling the Allied Full Cushion trucks: they are not listed in the 2007 catalog under the truck listings or in new products section. So, I think for the present, you would be

Thank you, John. That's the kind of info I was hoping for. I'll have to find something on those ACL cars. What did the Buckeye trucks look like on the Seaboard cars? I've seen a photo or two of them

Don, Seaboard's express ventilator box cars (700-754) had Allied trucks from 1943 to about 1949-1950. They were replaced with Buckeye trucks. ACL also had them on their express ventilated box car,

First, I would not use plastic tube cement on anything....this cement is not stronger than regular liquid plastic cement. (I actually use MEK for all of my styrene modeling.) A cement for plastics

Hello There is a lot of experience within this group. I hope someone can help. I used testors tube plastic glue and assembled the Heritage Walthers Furniture kit. The vertical pilasters are

Justin Kahn wrote: Jace, The initials "NE" were the MCB/ARA/AAR Mechanical Designation for an eight-wheeled caboose. It did not stand for Northeast or New England. A four wheel Bobber would have

I am no longer certain that I knew Thomas made single-dome tankers in HO (although it would have been logical for them to do so), but I can verify that the O scale wine car uses the same underframe

Dear Pieter The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, pending more evidence. I dug out my NJI booklet on NYC/NH cabooses (which I probably should have done first, but nothing is readily

Guy, It may be easier to just expand the Allied Full Cushion truck saga. The rules do not distinguish between the two types of AFC trucks so possibly both are affected. It is interesting to note that

The set that I've got are from Greenway Products. They're brass and the best castings I've ever seen. And roll as good as Proto Don Worthy roblmclear <roblmclear@...> wrote: Does

Bill Writes: "These dates are from the AAR Code of Rules....for Interchange Effective August 1, 1957 Allied Full-Cushion trucks had to have improved swing hangers and improved swing hanger shoes to

Mike, Those "itty-bitty" numbers don't add up. CAPY 142,100 pounds LD LMT 145,400 pounds LT WT 75,200 pounds GRL (LT WT + LD LMT) equals 220,600 pounds The maximum Gross Rolling Load for a

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Guys: I'm posting a few shots of a nearly completed project that I have been getting ready for Naperville and thought I would share it with the guys who are not able to attend as well. It's the sister

The reason that they were banned was that at high speeds they had a tendency to hunt and this side to side lateral motion caused a good many wrecks. Tom Olsen 7 Boundary Road, West Branch Newark,

Rob, Athearn is offering their new tooling as separate parts - very nice AFC trucks. Regards Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL