Alan Welch said: Well, sure, Alan, and that's why diagonals expected to carry compression are heavier in section, so they WON'T buckle. Obviously Alan doesn't know a great deal about fatigue in

Richard correctly notes: However, said wife learned much from the clinic...as she was supposed to do...and has been practicing on me...with variously interesting results ever since. All in all...not

Am I missing something here? In a bridge, diagonals under compression fail due to buckling, if they are long enough, slender enough and loaded enough. Diagonals are even more prone to buckling

This whole discussion has been unaffected by reality. I'd hoped that by the time I returned from a brief trip out of town it would, like Pospero's conjuring, have "vanished into air, into thin air,"

Good grief! I go away for three days and look at the nonsense that ensues. Brock discovers a non-existent mistake in the IM reefer kit, Thompson issues an unjustified mea culpa not only on his own

Tom, This agent's book is for Fairfax MN on the M&StL. The fella posting the info name is Sam. Sam just posted more, he has done the last half of 1947. From the time the cars were unloaded then

"Tim O'Connor" <timoconnor@...> wrote: A USRA-clone all-steel box car of 8'7" IH, with 4-4 Dreadnaught ends and Youngstown doors. Specifically from Lot 559-B, built by ACF St Louis

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 00:14:37 -0400 "Tim O'Connor" <timoconnor@...> writes: Tim, . My display case is not in my bedroom, therefore I don't sleep with them. I enjoy them in the same way I

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 00:07:13 -0400 "Tim O'Connor" <timoconnor@...> writes: Please explain. Tim, you obviously missed my cop-out notice. I have NOT studied them. Also, of course I meant

Hi Group; I model an Eastern Coal Hauler type railroad set in the 1960s and 1970s. The prototype had several oil refineries along it on the portion that I am not modeling. I would like to know IF

--- Clark Propst <cepropst@...> wrote: I know in 1938 Lignite was shipped in box cars because it tended to crumble as it dried out. What part of the country was this book from? How many

Not sure what this is. A double sheathed ARA car, built 1926 Dunno. A 36 ft box; a Fowler clone? A 1923 ARA design car An M-53 wagontop? Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough,

I'm admittedly ignorant about the rules governing how cars are to be loaded. I have found something curious in the agents seal book enteries from another group. This is a small rural community that

In the midst of a very interesting article on helper engines in the August issue of Trains is an exceptionally interesting photo of a UP 2-8-8-0 and trailing caboose in the Glenns Ferry area of Idaho.

Hey, I woulda been surprised by such an assertion, knowing that SP's practice of painting trucks the same olive as the body dated back into Harriman times. Harley may not be the ONLY guy who was out

off the rail? > Well, a friend of mine uses magnets to stop his cars at the end of his stub ended gravity yard. There is a slight lurch when the end car reaches the magnet but it's not enough to

Byron, I forgot to add: the nose on that SD-60 is 4" too long. Very obvious and serious flaw to us modern modelers... ;o) [See recent magazine article devoted to correcting massive frame, truck and

Byron, if those are your real scores for those freight car models then I can only say that your results are more than a little inconsistent with one another. Perhaps you apply a tougher standard to

Great idea, Dave! However I think it might work ok if the magnets were simply fixed with respect to the Accurail rod, and stood on outriggers as you've shown but not touching down on the roadbed.