Clark, Good post, as always. I have a love-hate relationship with brake rigging: I hate to do it, but I love when it's done. In fact, I don't like building up underframes in general. I add the

Clark, That's ok. The boys down at the Lodge will give you some more duct tape. Chuck Hladik

Thanks for the detailed instructions. I followed them and got the following results: Athearn Genesis 100T RB - .305" Athearn Genesis 70T RB - .307" Now I'm completely baffled. The bolster heights

Yeah, and the Grandt Line set, being intended for NG, has the correct 8" cylinder. Dennis

bearing the basis it might No, sorry, I don't. These are way too new for my interests, and my nearest LHS (at least one that carries anything useful) is an hour away, and I rarely get there

Dennis - Do you happen to have the heights for the two Athearn Genesis roller bearing trucks? They were the most eggregious examples I ran into and are the basis of a problem that won't happen for

appreciate a The Wayner book "Cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad" has a picture of an N6b being rebuilt ca.about 1938. It has detached K-1 or maybe H-1 (8" cylinder)gear- the difference is negligable

Jack is such a demon for detail that I supplied him with some superfluous data that I found earlier this week: that Janet Leigh was born in Merced in 1927. Richard and many of you know my dirty

Jeff,My more recent cars have full brake gear.Earlier cars do not.My roster is too large to retrofit all at once.When cars are serviced they most likely will be upgraded.Armand Premo

I have a similar shot of women with an IC reefer and bananas. It was and is a common sales aproach. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

Thank you Richard, If a plastic kit comes on the market and I can still assemble it, I'll replace the models I'm using. Clark Propst

List, Those of you that know me know that I pride myself on posting useful, accurate information that I can substanciate. Over the course of this discussion, I've made the statement several times

Clark, Jack Burgess is a perfectionist (some would say he is compulsive, though I am not one of them). Visit his awesome Yosemite Valley layout, if you haven't already had the opportunity to do so,

models? It depends how much it shows. If a car kit comes moulded rigging I put it on, but otherwise I only add what shows. That means I do a lot of fiddly wire bending on hoppers but very little

Clark, GATX owned and operated both AC&F Type 21s and AC&F Type 27s, which they got second-hand through their many acquisitions of private-owner tank car fleets in the 1930s and '40s. However, those

Clark, If you're planning to spend so much time looking at your brake rigging you need to make your trackwork more reliable . . . Okay, wise alek mode off. I certainly respect Jack's, and Ted's,

Clark, The only car under which I have put full brake rigging is a Harriman baggage car (a resin kit from SC&F). The lack of prototype info (and my own ignorance of passenger brake systems) has

Clark asked: I decided over 25 years ago that every freight car on my layout would include full brake rigging including air lines, etc. But that is just my own personal standard. It somewhat goes

I need several GATX tank cars for my packinghouse. I have a good collection of Life-Like models and one Intermountain car. Is the Intermountain car decorated for GATX correct? Or does it need to go