Walthers also produced the Ulrich metal hopper cars. Ken Montero

That’s fine, Eric, but what happens when you take your equipment to another layout? I don’t even HAVE a home layout (yet) but I’m a member of a major club, the North Shore Model Railroad Club

Peter Ness wrote: Walthers bought the dies and produced the GS gondola cars for a time; I have several in Walthers kit boxes. The gentleman in Colorado who obtained the dies from Walthers really

Andy Miller (might be on this list) modeled one of the attached cars by printing the paint scheme on a thin plastic wrapper that covered the car, and applying the dome afterwards. Very clever and a

Ken, EBAX 3197, the car I shot, is not in my 1958 ORER. That said, I just took a look at the EBAX roster there. While there are a number of 3,000 gallon cars, most are 6,000. Most are ICC 105A300W TPI

I have always felt that the NMRA RP was too heavy and, for many years, have arbitrarily used 100gm. as my target weight. I have a large fleet of freight cars of every imaginable construction material

Garth – I was somewhere (NMRA? RPM?) where Scott Chatfield talked about tank cars, and he covered some Tetraethyl lead cars (among others) To your questions: - They were small (IIRC the

Garth, The main point about the list was to show the variety of non-owner controlled cars that carried feed stocks to refineries. I have no insight to the outbound loads at that time as the list is

Bud, Tony, Bruce, and others, when I started to model US prototypes more than 20 years ago I definitely wanted to run 100+ car trains with only one (larger) steam engine because this was reality for

Going by my own knowledge of the subject, there were two primary producers of tetraethyl lead. One was Ethyl Corporation and the other was DuPont. Both used their own dedicated tank cars. I don't

Bud I’m not sure if one is available for S, but I use the truck tool reamer to clean out the journal cones on my HO trucks. I have even used it on brass trucks with great success as the cutter is

The NMRA car weight is not a standard it is a recommended practice. Here’s the PDF for RP-20.1 Car Weight. https://www.nmra.org/sites/default/files/standards/sandrp/pdf/rp-20.1.pdf Many modelers

Thanks guys for all the responses on car weighting! Consistency seems to be the way to go. In S I have quite a few heavier brass cars without needlepoint axles and most other cars have either

John, Interesting list and interchange information. One point: automotive lead (tetraethylead) is extremely heavy. From my observation on the WP in the 1970s, which moved a lot of Ethyl tank cars, is

Ken, While I agree that the the CONX car would not have been in California distributing finished product to local dealers, it coiled have been there transporting stock components to either

Tony, with the improvements in the free-rolling of trucks due to better wheels and more accurately fitted axle lengths (yes, I know REBOXX is out of business, but there's hope for another

Bruce Metcalf wrote: There were studies in the model magazines back in the 1950s that concluded (possibly correctly) that the biggest factor in car weight performance was CONSISTENT car weight.

I think it's important to understand the conditions under which the NMRA established those weight standards. It was an era before RP-25 wheel contours, before needle-point axles, and when car sides

Ken Adams wrote: In your and my modeling period, Ken, UTLX was pretty substantially in bed with the "baby Standards" such as Standard of California, and to my knowledge had nothing to do with

Andy Jackson wrote: Depends on the outside and inside diameter of the coils, and on the width of the strip. But the "standard" coils in use at the time these cars were built were loaded two at