Ed, Can't wait for that volume to go to print! Thanks to Mr. Wider for doing this research. Knowing that there were several lengths, widths, and patterns of ribs over the various

brake Try these: http://home.att.net/~pullmanproject/PE_1.jpg http://home.att.net/~pullmanproject/PE_2.jpg http://home.att.net/~pullmanproject/PE_3.jpg I took those at Perris CA in 1988. The bluish

Hello everyone, I'm considering using Tichy #9029 decals for USRA and panel side hoppers for an upcoming D&H hopper project. I've heard that these decals don't take well to setting solutions.

I am looking for some underbody or close up views of the outside brake rigging used on PE SS boxcars to allow negotiation of tight curves. I'm interested in how to model the brake staff connections

no one can see it anyway. Did Ted write that???? Clark propst

Ben, April 1952 ORER: 648317-648326 3 cars January 1953 ORER: 648326 1 car Hope this helps, Larry Grubb benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> wrote: Forgot one thing that would make it easier -

Mike Brock wrote: Most of the eastbound "Lumber Trains" also had "Reefers" in them in my Fall 1947 Fraley. Indeed, "lumber" may have been the interloper into the "Reefer Trains" - Indeed, all the

I didn't mean to confuse people by implying the "INDY" end was a corrugated steel end. That's the end I was searching for at the patent site. Bob Witt CBarkan@a... wrote: Al Westerfield. The

Ben, Have the following information: 1/1953 - 1 (648326) 1/1966 - 3 (134647-135076) 1/1966 - 1 (128918) Matt Herson

STMFC, I have been asked by Pat Wider to share with you the following information he has compiled on Milwaukee Road rib-side cars. This and more will be in an article in a future volume of Railway

Mike Brock wrote: This might be "roadway material," a term also used on SP and perhaps with origins in the Harriman era. Most "general purpose" boxes and flats in MOW service on SP were called

Richard; Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my message. I could also have been more careful in my definition of a "small" road, and I hope I did not offend anyone. Your assessment is

Ed Mines wrote: Oh, yeah. But the "brittle" had its compensations. I once dropped a completed kit from that early material and it fractured into a whole bunch of pieces. Disaster! But no, I

Forgot one thing that would make it easier - here are the number series: PRR 648314-648338, K7 (7/1950 - 15, none listed in 1/1955) PRR 134079-135499, K7A (10/1963 - 3, none listed in 4/1968) PRR

Looking for an assist to help fill gaps in my ORER coverage to determine final dates in revenue service for the following PRR stock car classes for an upcoming article in The Keystone Modeler: K7

Elden Gatwood writes: I'm responding only on those RRs for whose cars I have photographic evidence. Delray Connecting RR owned about 150 hopper cars and 70 41' gondolas. The gons were 10 panel

List, Has anyone tried to figure out what percentage of the national box car fleet was made up of Milwaukee's rib-side cars? I have two of the Rib Side kits, and think that's probably enough of a

Ed, These same comments were also posted in the files section under the folder on Milw Rib Side Cars. John Greedy and contrary. [snip]

**** I have no knowledge of any of the issues or non-issues related to casting of these cars. **** What I can offer is that he is pouring the "one-piece" bodies that are not actually bodies, but

While beginning a look through my Fraley for autos & auto parts, I notice three "lumber trains" heading east. The consists of these three trains are interesting primarily because of the presence and