I attached Gene Green’s paper to my last email to the resinfreight car builders io Group, so you can get it there or search the web for “Freight Car Underbody Detail.pdf”. Search “Modeling AB

Santa Fe also had many cars with perpendicular air reservoirs. J. Stephen Sandifer

Thank you, an interesting explaination. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 08:45 AM, Jeffrey Gray wrote: On the Monon gondola. That end is interesting. I would think that a pattern like that for the press die would be expensive to make. And then on a

Jeff and Friends, Here is a similar end on a Sierra MW car. Note the difference though; this one does not spiral but instead has concentric ovals. I've also included a view of the very interesting

Photo: Mineral Range RR Flatcar 69 (Circa 1900) Photo from Michigan Technological

Photo: Mineral Range RR Gondola 153 (Undated) Photo from Michigan Technological

Photo: Mineral Range RR Gondolas (1925) Photo from Michigan Technological

Nelson, Thanks for a very clear explanation! You've mentioned Ted Culotta's "treatise on freight car brakes" and Gene Greene's "paper on freight car brakes." Can you remind us where to find

On the Monon gondola. That end is interesting. I would think that a pattern like that for the press die would be expensive to make. And then on a Composite car too? Sent from my Verizon, Samsung

Hi Bob and others. Do you know if the photographer Jim Parker is still alive? OR where might his collection of photographs be? Sincerely, Rich Yoder

Luckily, the Intermountain PFE brake details are so poorly cemented on, that I can easily pop them off and add brass wire for the correct arrangement. -- John

Athearn isn’t the only victim of misreading engineering drawings. I’ve encountered current models from two companies who shall remain nameless with erroneous underbody brake diagrams in their

Also, but not necessarily in your case, many builder diagrams show the brake system (and other underbody details) as though you are looking down, through the floor of the freight car, not looking up.

Since posting my AB air reservoir question, I've reread Gene Green's paper on freight car brakes. A study of the photos and diagrams in this paper suggest that the AB air reservoir has an up and down

BTW, the AE Staley building still stands in Decatur, although their corporate headquarters moved to Chicago a few years ago to the consternation of the Decatur town fathers. -- Chris

Thanks, Steve. Schuyler

Photo: PRR Work Train (1937) Photo from the Indiana Historical Society: https://images.indianahistory.org/digital/collection/dc012/id/7402/rec/4 Click on the arrows and scroll to enlarge. Fair

Photo: PRR Flat Car 126939 (1935) Photo from the Indiana Historical Society: https://images.indianahistory.org/digital/collection/p16797coll70/id/19/rec/1 Click on the arrows and scroll to enlarge.

Photo: PRR Gondolas (1931) Photo from the Indiana Historical Society: https://images.indianahistory.org/digital/collection/P0129/id/1238/rec/25 Click on the arrows and scroll to enlarge. Only fair