The B&O also leased a number of the GAEX cars with Chrysler trucks. They were originally painted a dark green with a diagonal yellow band across the right side of the car. The lessee road name was

Many years ago, Mainline Modeler had an article on kitbashing this car from the Athearn twin. Walt Lankenau

List, Until some one makes us happy by producing the truck might I suggest the following: Detail Assoc.part #2802 / snubber, can be cut down to fit on the truck frame of your choice.

Ah, how soon they forget. There is a very clear photo of a Chrysler truck in the PFE book, page 166. It is similar to one in a Cyc of 1949-51 or 1953. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

The Railway Prototype Cyclopedia - Vol. 4 has a Chapter "Freight Car Trucks".... on the lower righthand corner of page 47 there is a picture of the Chysler FR-5 and the text discussion of that truck

Shawn, A respectable photo of the Chrysler truck is shown on 47 of RP CYC Vol. 4. Regards, Ed Hawkins

The Pennsy had about 100 50' GAEX leased cars with Evans Loaders that rode on the Chrysler trucks in the 1950's. A portion of one of these cars with the Chrysler truck can be seen

Jim, I give up - a search of the CB&Q pix at the Fallen Flags web site produced not a single clean photo of a Chrysler truck, and upon further study I'm not even sure the truck I posted the shot of

No. The Q certainly wasn't the only RR to equip some cars with Chrysler trucks, and modeling them is a project that some manufacturer might well consider, now that many of the most common steam-era

Jim Krapf asked: Jim, This is not a great photo (I'm searching for others), but look at the truck sideframe. It has what amounts to a shock absorber or a "snubber" mounted at the center of the

I think that a rather simple kitbash of Details West shock absorbers applied to a modified Tahoe Model Works Dalman truck could give a decent representation of the Chrysler truck. I believe that a

Shawn, We WP fans also need Chrysler trucks for the PS-1 compartmentizer boxcars, series 19501-19520. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Beckert, Shawn wrote:

Richard wrote: Richard, wasn't the P2K kit actually based on a Burlington car, but without the Chrysler trucks (which no model manufacturer makes)? Which leads to the question: Given the number of

In some cases, as has been previously discussed on this list, there are some minor detail discrepancies between the models and the prototypes. Aside from that, the P/L schemes are all accurate and

Phil, These cars show up on eBay from time to time. I could swear that the NEBW pay web site had a series of prototype photos of the loading and unloading of one of these cars but I can't seem to

Phil, You might want to join the Milk Trains Group at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/milktrain/ where you might get answers to your questions. Tim Gilbert rckwallaby wrote:

Scuyler, A great photo. Thanks for sharing the link. For those of you who have never been to Scranton, the station in the photo is now a very fine hotel, a Radisson. Much of the original decor has

The end construction would lead me to believe these were Canadian built cars; ex GTW perhaps? The Henry Ford Museum has one of these at Greenfield Village, and I see that the fist picture was taken at

Some time ago, maybe in the mid '80s, OMI produced a brass model of the very fascinating Merchants Despatch flat car which carried two Milk Tank road trailers. The fixings to contain the trailers

Hello everyone, I was looking at the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Modelers Page this morning, and I came across some photos of what appear to sawtooth Fowler or Fowler clone boxcars. The photos can be