The body is somewhat too thick (especially the flanges) but a thinner deck will greatly improve its appearance. Either sanding down the deck about 2/3.... or use the deck as a drill template over a

This isn't exactly the same issue however, as the "heavy duty flat" really models a cast frame 4 truck flat whose main components were commercial castings purchased by several roads. While SP is not

I wrote: "C&O 173000-176999, photo and drawings in Mainline Modeler, August 1988, p 53; drawing run again in Mainline Modeler, January 1990, p 27." One more thing - the C&O cars have radial

Jace Kahn asked: "I just acquired another US Hobbies #706 panel side triple hopper (pretty typical 70T ribbed kind but with the panel sides). I've already used NYC for another one, so what other

Well...today's a good enough time as any I guess to remind members that signing full names...first and last...is a requirement on the STMFC. If this task is too difficult...some may not actually know

Richard - Never say never. I have a photo of N-9 121720 hopper taken in 1904, freshly repainted and riding on T-section trucks. As far as I can determine all N-9s were delivered with PSC arch bars.

Jim Mischke wrote: Some clarifications: Practically none of the Wheeling area mills were on the B&O. Nor in Pittsburgh, either. The vast, vast majority of coal moving through Benwood (Wheeling) on

wrote: Probably busy working on real railroading! Jeff English Troy, New York

Thanks to Ben and Jeff for illuminating the builders details on the NYC gondola and box car featured here: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc632353ana.jpg I would like to reiterate that the

Hello, Sorry, but my computer illiteracy took over when I sent an attachment to Yahoo!. The complete message has been sent to Richard H and hopefully he can sort it out. Regards, Glen

Hello, Is not the Athearn heavy duty flat, which is correct for SP, not produced in that scheme? Any others? Regards, Glen Mills

wrote: about. subject Which is why the yahoo list via the web site is searchable and you can read blocks of posts at your leisure. Not enough people use that resource that is available to them any

Scott Chatfield wrote: "But if memory serves the Pennsy's H33 class (late copies of the ACF 1,958 covered hopper) rode on ASF roller bearing A-3s with open Timken bearings, and those were built

Speaking of PRR F22's, just for grins, go to the Florida Photographic Collection and search for "Parker's Boat". Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla. based their about 18 plastic bag, sometime? model and be

This may have already been said but I was off camping for a week and may have missed it. Sunshine reissued its Bx-49 mini-kit for the Spring 2002 California meets. The reissued version calls for the

Tony I addressed the coment to the wrong person , sorry Lou

Tom What is over looked with John's modeling is the prototype aspects he developed such as loading an engine wth it's tonnage and changing it with dfferent grades, also he was one of the first to

Jim, Thanks for the note, my knowledge of the B&O's operations in that area are close to nothing. That they were there provoked the question. Now that I'm convinced the coal was mainly export

The B&O guys know more about this than I do – where's Chris Barkan when we need him? – but AFAIK the B&O never equipped its freight cars with Bettendorf T-section trucks. During the era when other

My question has prompted a discussion on unrestricted truck type interchange dates. I'd still like to know what, if any, B&O cars had T-section Bettendorf trucks and if they survived into the