Tim writes: "I checked Ben's post that F30A's had these trucks and indeed," I posted a photo to the PRR_Pro groups with an F30A with the coil-elliptic truck on it with a load of tractors. I

Paul Lyons wrote: Perfectly stated, Paul. I have no idea where they got that roof. See any prototype photo of a panel roof to see how wrong it is. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

Philip, I have gotten accessories from Blue Ridge Machinery at http://blueridgemachinery.com/. Dave Pfeiffer

List, Random thought for the day: if a lister has the specs. for these trucks, would it be possible to send a copy to John Greene at Beth. Car Wks.? They would make a nice addition for

Can someone send me Keith's email address? Thanks. - Al Westerfield

Ben Hom wrote: "You missed an obvious one - PRR: Class 2D-F12 http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=2D-F12- E89635.gif&sel=ftk&sz=sm&fr=" But Ben, those aren't double truss trucks.

Brian Leppert wrote: "Railroads that used the 50 ton coil-elliptic double-truss trucks include: BAR CGW C&O DT&I ERIE LNE N&W VGN WM Can anyone add to this list?" You missed an obvious one -

Railroads that used the 50 ton coil-elliptic double-truss trucks include: BAR CGW C&O DT&I ERIE LNE N&W VGN WM Can anyone add to this list? The trucks in the photos have 6 X 11 journals,

Rings my chimes, Fred. I'm sure you're right. I don't have any photographic evidence, but there is a decal set diagram in the old 1942 Walthers PLD-1 book for a billboard White Rose car with PTLX

The -car- reference was '49... "Trucks identical to these were applied to DT&I 14000-14299, welded 40 foot box cars built in 1949"

Symington-Gould coil-elliptic double-truss, used by a number of RRs in the 1930s because the friction in the leaf springs afforded some measure of ride control by comparison with coil spring trucks.

Try http://www.unimat.homestead.com/. There are still a lot of SL-1000 lathes around and still reliably doing their jobs. As we speak, I have one just beyond the reach of my left hand (a valued

Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...> wrote: Brian Paul Ehni wrote: But White Rose is more probable. Tim Gilbert Hello Group, I found a Whitehouse Fuels 100 Winooski Ave., Burlington, VT

Doug and Mark, Yes, that's what I get for speaking off the cuff without checking my own resources. Ironically, I was looking the very photo Doug refers to while trying to discern the fuzzy hand

So... if these were new in 1949... (a -vintage- year BTW...!) - How long would these have lasted in interchange service with plain bearings? - Were any of them ever upgraded with retrofit roller

Philip, There is a Yahoo group for Unimat: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/UNIMAT/ UNIMAT-subscribe@... They are pretty active and seem to know the ins and outs of

John Mosbarger posted photos of these trucks, which look identical to those applied to DT&I 14000-14299 in 1949. I don't know of any other prototypes that used them. Tim

Richard Brennan writes: "So... if these were new in 1949... (a -vintage- year BTW...!) - How long would these have lasted in interchange service with plain bearings? - Were any of them ever

Jon: I have been gathering data to do the NYDX decals for these cars, but they are low priority at this point and when they would be done is anybody's guess. There is a photo of one of these cars in

Hi Philip, For machine tools and acessories, I recomend MSC Industrial at http://www.mscdirect.com If they don't have, it is probably not made. Their hardcopy catalog is about 4 inches thick. It