Thanks Tony I've seen enough cars that would have been painted before the introduction of the repack stencil have one, so I gathered that there was at least something of retrofit program rather than

Dennis (or anyone else), Has it been determined the practical minimum radius the PROTO:HO couple can be used for effective operation? I'm thinking literally how tight can the radius be before it may

I have decided to model the 1915 to 1919 time period. I will be building a small HO railroad at eye level so I have been detailing the heck out of my freight cars. I have looked at many Andrews trucks

Hello Mr. McCoy, Contact me off list at mail@... about selling you our PS-1 underframes. There are a number of parts that we sell by request that are not regularly listed part numbers. Many

1 3/4" x 5 11/16" face Tongue & grove decking in P-S1s per page 400, 1946 CBC. Gene Green

Chuck, See msg #45929. Regards, -Jeff -- Jeff Aley jaley@... DPG Chipsets Product Engineering Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA (916) 356-3533

I'm down to making a relacement floor for my McKean 40' combo door PS- 1. I have IM 40' PS-1 underframe components but will need to make a new floor to replace the crude McKean floor. Does any one

These were not the same as the standard Emergency design. These were unique to the LV. The Athearn and P2K kits will not work here except as stand-ins. While we're on the subject of Emergency

"I've uploaded prototype and model photos to STMFPH at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFPH/files/LV%20Hoppers/" How does one join the above group? I could not find it on Yahoo. Chuck Seemann

In a message dated 10/18/05 7:27:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, brian@... writes: << It is my understanding that boxcars and reefers received a second grab iron on the left hand side at some

Hi, This is not exactly a freight car request, but is indirectly related. I have completed building a HO scale version of the coal shed/silo shown in the attached photo. The photo is 1970s, the shed

after grit blasting i usually just dip the trucks in a combination of india ink + alcohol wash, and sometimes a commercial "rust" mix and i use a hot air drier to evaporate the alcohol quickly. they

Hi, The Lehigh Valley 40,000 series quad hoppers did indeed begin life as "composite" hoppers. They were rebuilt into the steel 9 panel cars as pictured. There was an article or plans only, can't

There's an easy fix for this: sandblast the truck frames. Paint then sticks to them like grim death. I don't even bother to protect the conical bearings, as I routinely clean these up with a

I answered the question about LV hoppers off list, hoping that an "expert" would come forward. There were a couple of steam era freight car articles in "Flags, Diamonds and Statues" (magazine from the

Indeed. I will point out, however, that .088 wide wheels, when set to the normal HO scale back to back dimension of .566 called out in NMRA S-4.2, are almost exactly the true scale dimension over the

Andy and List, In addition to the Bethlehem cars, Martin has the X29B masters completed, but with his backlog and Naperville upon us, he won't bringing any with him. He will have the X26C's with him

An additional benefit I can imagine for the prototype oriented modeler would be a generally "rougher" surface of the truck parts. The Kadee truck kind of imitates this by being made of metal in the

Tim O'Connor wrote: Now there's a slogan . . . I can picture it on lapel badges at Naperville . . . Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley,

Brian J Carlson wrote: Off the top of my head, it was mandated in 1931 for new construction (don't have the reference handy to check), and was supposed to be retrofitted when repairs were done.