Steve Sandifer's excellent Santa Fe stock car book has a two-page spread devoted just to the convertible mechanism (pp 128, 129). The old AHM "cattle car" is actually a decent model of a NYC

 Gentlemen, Attached below are links to Bill Welch’s wood and steel FGE reefer presentations, circa

Brian the Santa Fe book is new and available from several sources. Here is one

I am hardly an expert in loading cattle into stock cars, but (common sensically) it does occur to me that loading full size livestock on an upper deck would raise the center of gravity for the car and

Thanks for the info guys and I'll have to see if I can locate a copy of that Santa Fe book. Douglas, the scale cow will fit through the upper deck door but not through the lower portion but I felt it

Brian the UP had some double deck stock cars designed to hold cattle on the lower level. According to the Stock Car Data posted by Dick Harley, these cars were classified as SA. Most built new in

Westerfield has PE S-40-5 stockcars and Owl Mountain flatcars come with PE decals and instructions. I'm adding some into the SP fleet mix. -- ------------------- RJ Dial Mendocino, CA

What Al said. Hogs and sheep. From what I've been able to determine, the double-decks were relatively late to the game, usually modified conventional stockcars. The concept of long distance hauling of

RJ Thank you for your explanation I now understand it. No I am not going to build any PE cars as I have not got any kits although I do have two sunshine B50-14s to build but no PE decals I think the

Paul, now you are talking my early era and California traction focus! In the teens, 20's and early 30's, industry was centralized in and around south & central Los Angeles. The tracks in LA were not

Hi The Pacific Electrics own cars had an unusual hand brake arrangement because of the tight curves. Foreign cars must have traveled over the PE lines with standard handbrake linkage how was this

My understanding is that double-deck stock cars were normally used for smaller animals like hogs or sheep: same kind of critter on each deck. Cattle would travel in single-deck cars. A very

So I finally got around to building some S-40-6 1955 Live Stock Car from UHPS. While building the cars I discovered that an adult Scale cow would not be able to stand in the lower deck of the car.

Me too I wasn't paying attention, my bad fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Regular mail is fine, and since you don't know me feel free to wait till the check clears before you ship. I'm at Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374-8956 -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye

Dear Colleagues, My error. It should have been sent off-line. Ken Montero

Ken, that would be great and I'll get the check in the mail tomorrow for $61.96 Send me your snail mail address and I'll known where it should go Thank you Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye

Fenton, You are in luck. I do have two kits #42700 FGE wood refrigerator undecorated. Normally, I don't sell from my collection, but I will do so for you because of

Yes, earlier Ulrich kits varied in a number of ways. I have an early Ulrich twin hopper with wood parts -- later those were gone. And some early brass parts were later replaced with die-cast. On

HO Seeker publishes catalogs. The date cited may just be the date of the catalog, not the actual debut of the model. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org