version the do ======================== The Varney/Life-like ribbed twin hopper is pretty close in general dimensions to the Pressed Steel Car Co. hoppers that were produced from the early 1900's

Jace, To every statement we make, there is always an exception (probably to this statement as well!). The Northern Electric Railway, later the Sacramento Northern, built four side-door cabooses

I am unclear on what constitutes interstate commerce for cabooses, as they were non-revnue cars. Jace Kahn _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest

I hesitate to chop logic with one of the acknowledged masters of freight car lore, but if one defines a side door caboose as lacking end platforms, I doubt any more were built after the turn of the

The old Varney/Life-Like twin hopper is supposed to be the 10-ft version of this car, although they left off the end sills to make room for the talgo trucks and I think they made it too narrow.

List: I model the PRR in O scale and I have a Parri H-35 hopper that needs to have the hopper door actuating mechanism added. This came to my attention as I looked at the car's paint scheme and

Dave and friends, The Westvaco cars were shown in an article titled "Cars Owned by Shippers Car Line (Accurate ACF Covered Hopper Models, Part VI) by Ed Hawkins, Pat Wider and Ray Long in the January

I thought the Varney car was just a poor rendition of the USRA 55 ton hopper. I never bothered to look past its coarseness for the subtleties that would distinguish it from its precursor. But

cfrench@... writes: No, not really. As I posted earlier, the MoPac had side-door cabooses, without end platforms, in mainline service until the 1960s. The cabooses were scattered

Mike Brock writes: Small correction, Mike. The Semet-Solvay cars are from InterMountain, not Life-Like (they were AC&F Type 27s, not Type 21s). And yes, they do need railed dome platforms. If

It was also done in 1968 or so when the scrapper burnt most of the last of the D&RGW NG rolling stock after the abandonment of the narrow gauge lines...in this case the cars were primairly wood and

"Rivets Count - Damn Right I'm a Rivet Counter." Shouldn't that be "Count Rivet - the Counting Count" ? ;] Cheers! Jan Kohl

In a message dated 5/14/02 5:20:18 AM, jaydeet@... writes: << [1] Mostly for lack of anything better to call them. They were the most widespread steel hopper design before the USRA, and that

In addition, the TNO (SP) had side door versions of the C-30 in use till the early '60s. But not in "mainline" service. Charlie

Chet French said: Not sure what wave length this is. I was not excluding side-door cars with end doors. SP seems to have stopped using them fairly early (though in WW II they converted a whole bunch

Does anyone else see a Southern SU box car in the photo? I believe only a few hundred were still running in 1953. Jack Wyatt

officially banned subsequently being and local Santa Fe Richard appeared to be the only one on the same wave length with Tony regarding the side-door cabooses. The ones with the blind ends. Chet

Hey Richard, where do we get ours from ???? Ian Clasper

Tony Thompson correctly asserts: IIRC, I first heard the term from Greg Martin, perhaps as long ago as the 1980s. It came to be widely employed by serious prototype modelers in the 1990s but

I wrote: To which Jeff English responds: My statement is based on a sizeable body of photographic evidence. However, Jeff's knowledge of NYC freight car history greatly exceeds mine, so I will