Had I been looking at my emails yesterday, on this topic I would have observed that depending on the railroad, cabooses were painted red, white on some roads, and as well know, blue. Happy Fourth

Group, Does anyone know what happened to the presentation material on these cement gons from the late Ron Parisi? He had done a great amount of research and modeling as well. Billy

ugh... It's back. The term bearing in the broad sense means a method to support the relative motion of one surface against another - a bearing surface, usually under some manner of "load" that need to

Claus, No need to try to decipher the markings. The only possible cars for the right-hand car would be K7 or K7A. Since the car to the left is a K8, that makes the car to the right a K7A due to the

 Hi Bob and List Members, I think I can just make out the class marking as K7a on the right-most stock car. My memory (could be wrong) is that these cars were rebuilt from class X24 auto box

I disagree. By "definition" a bearing is something that bears a weight, if words mean anything. I have heard railroaders use the 'friction bearing' term. Terminology in

-- Chris Barkan Champaign, IL

 Hi Bob and List Members, To my somewhat inexperienced eyes, this gon looks like it may have started out in life as a USRA mill gon (or clone of such). Do others agree? Claus Schlund

iirc the Nickel plate went over to some kind of bright red in 1948 or a bit later. In the UK some pre 1923 railway companies painted just the end of the guards vans (caboose equivalents) bright red to

"before the development of the roller journal bearing” ... This type bearing was known to the ROMANS and other early historical civilizations. Their versions were crude to be sure, but they well

The Rock Island used their “Standard Freight Car Color” for cabooses until the mid 1950’s when they introduced a lighter caboose red. Steve Hile

But were they using "friction bearing" to describe a type of journal bearing or were they using it correctly to describe one type of side plate bearing? "Friction bearing" is an oxymoron since a

Hi all, The PRR painted cabin cars (caboose) bright red as far back as 1891. (But soon changed to freight car color on the Pennsy as I'm guessing cost won out over safety?) "The standard cabin car

Friction Bearings – How Old Is This Term? Way back on 6/6/16, Dave Evans defended Timken against the commonly publicized criticism that Timken invented the term “friction bearing” as a put-down

Friction Bearings – How Old Is This Term? Way back on 6/6/16, Dave Evans defended Timken against the commonly publicized criticism that Timken invented the term “friction bearing” as a put-down

This is a cross-posting I just placed on the GN list, but here is what I have on GN caboose colors: I dug out my copy of “Rocky and Old Bill – A History of Great Northern Paint and Lettering

Chris S. wrote: "Says Coalburg Ohio. That was a ex LS&MS yard that was turned into a scrap yard.(Midwest Steel and Alloy Scrap) Erie's lone 44 tonner was the shop switchers and the first GG1 "rivets"

And SRR in the Brosnan era

It seems a few large roads painted the cabooses in the same freight car color as their boxcar fleets into the 1930s. B&O, NYC, and PRR come to mind. IIRC, B&O introduced the brighter Devils Red

Dennis, Folks, Part of the issue with defining the color of red lead primer is that, as a natural metal oxide, its color can vary. Webster's dictionary defines red lead as "an orange-red to brick-red