Chris Casper asked: "Which issue of TKM has the modeling article on the PRR G29 , is it still available, and where can I acquire a copy?" Elden Gatwood's G29 article appeared in the September 2004

Dennis, Thanks for the reply. I have the 1940 Cyc, I should have checked. Actually, the truck shown at the top of p1120, i.e. the one that looks like an A-3 without the triangular enclosures for the

Hi All, I have two questions for the group. 1.) Which issue of TKM has the modeling article on the PRR G29 , is it still available, and where can I acquire a copy? 2.) According to a car folio I

This version of model railroading folk-law is not entirely true. The error was discovered when I attempted to fit an InterMountain roof to the Branchline 41' box car and immediately exclaimed,

Gene Green: That's because there's no layout in Rosa's cantina. Tom Madden

Where can I find more information on these cars in general? I tried a search and came up empty. If they were discussed in the past on this list, I'll be happy to search the archives. As I'm sure

From my notes I show only one batch of PSC B-50-25's 20500-21499 and two batches of PS cars 21500-21749 and 21750-22249. (And two PS batches for T&NO) Which ones had wide seam doors?

which ... <snip> I just finished scanning similar pages from the 1937 Cyc and can send same to anyone interested while I still have them on my hard drive. Please contact me off list at bierglaeser

JEFFREY LEAMAN wrote: base color to underframes, trucks and wheels. I then will weather portions of the equipment based on the commodity carried, location through which the car traveled, etc, etc.

According to my January 1957 ORER ACL had two cars that were numbered 15000 and 15001 and described as: Box, Laminated, Unicel, 52' 6" outside length. Pat Wider

How about just going back to the common (Kalmbach reprint) 1940 CBC? This has several pages of information and drawings presented by the "Board of Trustees under the Four Wheel Railway Truck

In a message dated 1/22/2006 1:33:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, rhendrickson@... writes: That was the right choice, Paul. Santa Fe put those trucks on many of its new and rebuilt freight

Well, since we seem to have everyone focused on trucks, maybe I can get a confirmation here on a selection I just made for my Santa Fe RR-22 reefer. I want to change out the brass trucks on one of

Does anyone have good photos of _ASF basic_ trucks from the 1944 to 1949 period? They are listed in the ASF ad in the 1946 CBCyc. The trucks are listed as _cast steel ASF basic_ for the following

I just noticed a thread titled remarks. This may follow that theme? I received a phone call from Lloyd Keyser the other night. During our conversation I had the opportunity to needle him again about

I know I held off on buying the original RC reefer until they did the revision which I bought then went back and bought the original one for variety. Kudos to those manufacturers who have

It is designed for the wide seam batches built by Pullman-Standard and Pressed Steel. Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 645 Tanner Marsh Road, Guilford, CT

I can't think of anything better about which to be so wrong. Gene Green Out in the west Texas town of El Paso

Richard, Or if the kit is used for "kitbashing" projects, which is how Pat Wider and I discovered the problem on a Saturday evening (soon after the models were first released) and we were exploring

Proto 2000 revised the roof of their 50 foot box cars (except the end-door version). Intermountain actually tooled 7+8 doors for their 50 ft PS-1's double door cars after the early kits all came with