Are they still in business? Is their product line pictured on the internet? Ed Mines

I'm always amazed when I see the western railroads and their lumber loads. They are so neat and well done, many NMRA contest points were probably awarded. I have a photo taken in the late 1930's from

Here is a link to an Emil Albrecht photo of two less commonboxcars from the Utah Rails website. Whatare the odds of these two cars being together? In the lower right-hand corner is a symbol

http://www.owlmtmodels.com/lumber/aar.html about loading lumber for flat cars tom -- Thomas j Cataldo

There was a discussion about a month ago on how lumber loadswere secured. Here are some links to Emil Albrecht photos of lumber loads fromthe Utah Rails website. The photos aredated. In the

Bob, No. Grab iron ladders were certainly allowed and around in 1946. Looking at the two reefers, I see that they are different classes. The one to the right S.F.R.D. 25643 is class Rr-9, an ARA

Note that the reefer on the left still has grab ironsinstead of ladders. The photo is dated1946 so isn’t that a little late for a car to still not have ladders? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Southern 116708 would be a good number for this flat car. These cars were built in the early 1900's e.g.1914. many were converted to pulpwood racks in the 1940's -- Fenton Wells 5 Newberry

Unless I miss my guess, which I don't think is the case here, the former Roundhouse/Model Die Casting milk car is based upon the Lehigh Valley prototype with the rather low profile. Cordially, Don

I should say I got in touch with the consumer rights body in Florida and they did follow the matter up and Glow eventually returned my money after my having ordered nine months ago and gotten next to

Hi Ed, The last photo in the 10/38 issue of Railway Mechanical Engineer, which described rebuilding the 40’ quads into 28’4” twins in the 42000-42848 series, shows the location of all the

Al Brown wrote: "The hopper shown in the Charles Collection photo is a twin; the one kitbashed in the blog entry is a quad. Hm? (confused)" True, but the two cars are related. Lehigh Valley rebuilt

The rail load appears to be on 'stickers', boards to get the load off the deck of the flatcar. Note the shadow under the rails at the near end of the car. The rods, all thread, pipe, whatever, may be

At one time it was common to weld a half inch bolt about three inches long with a nut all the way to the end to a side sill and use it to attach a steel band. However this almost looks like it is

Gary, My knee jerk reaction given the era, was that these are threaded rods bent to hook over the top of the load to hold it down. The other end would be passed through a stake pocket and then a

I thought the rails were standardized at 39ft... because the cars were 40. Correct? Is the flat stenciled "SOUTHERN 116708"...? (My TV crime-show super hi-rez image enhancer is

The hopper shown in the Charles Collection photo is a twin; the one kitbashed in the blog entry is a quad. Hm? (confused) Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

The picture that is in the Culotta Klinebook (LV 42521)is available for sale on the NMRA Archive web site at http://archive.nmra.org/Collections.aspx?c=509&i=23453&PageIndex=0&rm=534 It is

The flat car barely is long enough for the load of rails: http://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Emil-Albrecht-Photos/1946-Aug-Green-River/i-CrR93Wt/A The load has 2 curved (wires?) on the side

It worked for me. Dave Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone