To those who have ordered your Terry Wegmann R-30-18 reefers from me, please note that I have shipped the first 15 packages to the first 15 payments I have received. Shipped first class USPS rate,

"Drop door?" Not sure what you mean. The GA cars had transversely hinged bottom doors, not longitudinal hinges along the centerline as in later GS cars, but the idea of a bulk-loading gondola with

The OSL 5000-5299 (25000-25299) series? I had thought those were regular drop-door gondolas like the Standard Steel Car gons that followed them in 1902-3. David Thompson, and I've seen GS gons

(of I bet they were T section trucks but they probably weren't the correct ones for these cabooses. The bottom of the side frames on these NYC trucks were curved. I can post a photo in the files

List subscribers, Sam Clarke of Kadee has permitted me to make a preliminary announcement about a soon to be released new "scale" coupler. It will be called the Kadee #78. Appearancewise, the

Mostly true, Jim, but (and here I admit to a failing likely to lose my membership on the STMFC list) I am particular only up to a point as to prototype fidelity. That is to say, I need to re-work an

Charlie Slater, who's making the patterns, corrects me as follows: Richard, the 40' classes are the Ga-22 and 25, and the 50' classes are Ga- 20,26 and 44. Well, that's what I get for relying on

So I gather that UTLX was or is operated by Standard Oil. Back in the late 1940s, I remember watching Pacific Electric, electric locomotives (motors) pulling mixed freight trains of Box cars, tank

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plethora of change many Jace, That's quite all right; I ALMOST regret my scale-change, too when I see all the options these guys have in HO. Except then I realize that we can actually SEE what

Gene Deimling said: This is true, Gene, and is the reason, respectively, for the LifeLike Mather stock car kits, and for the Westerfield stock car kits in HO. Tony Thompson Editor,

David Thompson said: Yep. The first Harriman all-steel drop-bottom gondolas for UP (in those days they were MCB GA class, not GS) were bought in either 1899 or 1900 from Pressed Steel Car. Tony

I remember the kit, although I don't think I ever had one; didn't it have some resin castings or partial construction? Jace Kahn _________________________________________________________________ MSN

I may be late getting into this discussion but there seems to be a few common stock car designs. I believe that Mather leased cars to a number of roads. I am not sure how common the features were

It's been a LONG time since I was in H0, but I think either Trains (of Chicago or Lambert imported a brass NYC wood caboose with T-section Bettendorfs, because I remember having one. Jace

It's not off-topic, Kevin. If you look closely at the Sanborn maps for any town that had industries served by rail, you'll see the usefulness thereof to the many historian/modelers that populate this

True, but they weren't built to the AAR standard design. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

We could always split the difference and model the C&EI: endless strings of GS gons hauling coal at 5 mph. Anywho, would anyone care to confirm or refute my belief that the very first GS gons were

<<Offhand, the only major RR I can think of that bought ARA standard stock cars was the L&N. From the 1920s onward, most RRs that needed additional stock cars got them by rebuilding obsolete box