--- In STMFC@..., "Dave Nelson" <muskoka@c...> wrote: <snip> > . . . Maybe phases or something clearly descriptive > (my own preference): PS Dartnot End, PS-1 Undimpled End,

which model trucks in HO scale ''manufacturer and part # '' are best to simulate the combine car prototype. http://railwaymuseum.ab.ca/other.html#17106 using some plates off an HO

It was nearly impossible to buy a kit at Milwaukee's Trainfest this year. Their were no Red Caboose kits and only a few Intermountain The P2K kits were under $5 ea. and almost all were sold Sat. and

this aught to be used as a convention clinic. titled "Imagineering, what if" ed_mines <ed_mines@...> wrote:Check out the third to last photo on this amusing web site to see the aforementioned

Check out the third to last photo on this amusing web site to see the aforementioned stock car. http://www.karenparker.net/PixelMagic/pixelmagic.htm Ed

Dave Nelson wrote: Excellent suggestion: practical, brief, uses a clear description. Dave is right that the "industry" term isn't always descriptive enough to distinguish physically different

Jared, Again, I think you are not taking into account the level of disruption caused by WWII. Since I am not familair with the Alma Branch, I do not know what sort of national defense related sites

bierglaeser wrote: No, Don't. At least not right away. 8-) I'm with O'Connor on this one: when the trade name fails to describe the characteristic features, come up with a better name. I can

Phil, What's the number series of the car? Thanks, Clark Propst

I'm going book and refer to it Well, at least one person used it in a book. Me! I used PS-0 in the CGW color guide. I qualified it by saying Pullman-Standard never used the term but ... I'll start

I haven't seen the entire thread yet, but the reason the GN cars had "inset" ends is because the GN's cars are simply 1925 ARA box cars built to the prevailing dimensions of the late 1930s/early

If anyone else has any insights into the use of tank cars on the Alma branch they will be appreciated. I never thought about the WWII tank car shortage and other exigencies of war that disrupted the

If anyone else has any insights into the use of tank cars on the Alma branch they will be appreciated. I never thought about the WWII tank car shortage and other exigencies of war that disrupted the

Thanks Gene. I'm not surprised that they are gone when I saw the date in the archive message. Ahhh! The Z-man! Charlie

wrote: also <big snip> Elden, The January 1958 ORER shows 2880 Wabash S/S auto cars. The January 1964 Wabash Equipment book shows only 40 remaining, with 25 of the cars having the roofs removed for

Well, sort of. There apparently are some differences between the San Juan kit, which is based on the D&RGW Fowler and the Rock Island version, although they are not critical, particularly if one is

Jared Harper wrote: PARX was the reporting mark for of the Producers & Refiners Corporation of Independence MO which Sinclair bought in 1934. Any PARX tank cars, therefore, were essentially

Charlie: You asked about the reference to the Chooch NP wood sheathed AAR 1937 boxcar kit. It has long since been sold out. Jim Zwernemann did the patterns. Gene Deimling

Spen Kellogg I remember a sequence in Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes where the father takes a similar position about the world changing from black and white to color at stated intervals. Jace

<snip> Jared, The oil shortage was so critical at that point that there is no way that a tank car would be in assigned service unless it was for a very special cargo. Those cars noted in 1958 would