Armand, The trucks have a 5'6" wheelbase and do indeed have Simplex engraved in the bolster face. Pierre Oliver

For a story about a Rutland freight that left Norwood, N.Y., at 20 below zero after a two-day blizzard, and got hotbox after hotbox: see Nimke, "Rutland: 60 Years of Trying", vol 6 pt 2, p 27. Al

I was told Sunshine was going to produce a C&NW stock car. Lloyd Keyser had worked on this with them. Can anyone tell me if it is in production? Ron Christensen

So if your theory is correct that oil heats up with movement, if I pour a can of oil off a 1,000 foot tower in a perfect vacuum, the oil will be hotter when it hits the ground?

Inspired by Clark Propst's clinic at the Lisle meeting last October, I selected a box car to build for M&StL. It's only a stand- in, but the modeling techniques I used might be of interest to some.

People seem to be misunderstanding my earlier post so I will try to be more precise. After reading Larry Hanlon's post about Surgical Scalpel Blades and Handles, I found several sources for Surgical

From the book The Steam Locomotive by Ralph Johnson, Chief Engineer of Baldwin Locomotive Works: : "A solid bearing, when the train is at rest for any appreciable time, loses the oil film which

I also use primarily the #11 and get them from mcmaster.com who always have something else I "need". I have only used the basic handles frequently sold at train shows and also McMaster. Charles

I just completed artwork and am taking orders for decals for a 36' Wilson wood reefer. It covers the largest group of such cars: 1396 cars in series 8101 -- 9600 and spanned a period from steam to

Tim, I don't know that there was any changing of the lubricant in journal boxes by season. What about a B&M car that had a load bound from fridgid Maine to, say, hot Arizona? And if there were spikes

If you look here: http://www.pullmancar.org/pullfreight.htm and scroll down to near the bottom, you can see a thumbnail of the UF. Bob Webber

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That's correct. TLT sells the same sideframes with a different bolster. Tim O'Connor

Thank you Dennis for your help.Having looked at the TL Simplex trucks they seem to have a shorter wheel base and if I recall correctly have Simplex embossed on the truck side frame.Armand Premo

Hi Mark, I go back to the early 50's for being around Railroads, and 1968 on the Great Northern. My secretary (me) says, it OK to use the word Sun Kink, etc. I also deal in taxes, but most folks do

I am scanning articles of interest from old magazines and in the October 1998 RMJ there is an ad on page 56 showing a pre-production Hi-Tech Details injection molded S40-16 UP Stockcar. I don't

Might I point out that the Simplex name only refereed to the truck BOLSTER? Car trucks and bolsters could, and were, purchased separately. So, these are (whatever) trucks with Simplex

Richard Hendrickson, Objection noted. As someone who has been around railroads since the '70s and worked with them since the early '80s, that's just the term I've most often heard and the term I

Yes, one would think so? It's something TLT did that I've never understood. Pierre

Ah!! It's almost the New Year, so it's time to revive the debate over PLAIN/JOURNAL/FRICTION bearings! I think it's only fair to put in a good word for friction bearings which were indeed an