Chet, Thanks for your explanation that clarifies these cars. Another item that has added to my confusion of these cars is a photo of WAB 86694 taken by Col. Chet McCoid in 1956. The build date of

Tim, I am aware of 3 offset twins - Atlas, Kadee, Athearn, and ? What are the significant differences between the pre-war offset twins? Looking through the RPI site, they characterize the accurail

Looks like an AAR standard twin... again... for the fourth time in HO... whahoo yippee ky-ay.

That would be OT/SP&S trains on the twisty part from Wishram to Bend with 1.5% grade they did use a lot of GN power , GN Bend to Bieber, IIRC there max grade was about 1.5 too. Time will tell as I go

My understanding is that the new twin hopper will be a"standard" offset style utilizing the same detail sprues as the Accurail 3-bay 70t hopper. John Greedy

Chris and Ed, The NJI&I 4100-4149 series cars were built new by Decatur shop in 1944, at the same time the second group of Wabash 86000 series cars were being built. Wabash 86000-86519 were built in

I see Accurail has announced a new Offset twin hopper on their web site. I have searched the archives here and found no mention. Is this brand new and not yet discussed? It will be interesting to see

Hi Bill- here's another source for anyone else still looking. http://www.cycloneblasters.com/benchtop.htm Chris Sawicki ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Tue,

Yes and yes. Pretty well-behaved web site. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax,

Try www.minot.com/champ/. Jim Hayes [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Does anyone know if Champ is still selling down their inventory of decals? If so do we know how to contact them? Thanks: Bill Pardie

50/55-ton Years" as the "1905 common design" I think it would be a very useful kit,as many other RRs had them. I know I'd be willing to buy 5 or 6 There are rumors that Branchline intends to do the

Chris, It's best that Chet French reply to your question to provide what you are looking for. Note that the car in the photo has 8-panel sides. Cars in the series NJI&I 4100-4270 came from two

Actually I have been in touch with John and he is down to one blast media booth and is holding it for me. It sounds like his supplier is no longer. He does have blast media. Bill Welch

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard, you're forgetting that GN had a yard at Klamath Falls and could make up larger trains to run to Bieber from there. Anyone pursuing this topic will need to

True. And given the fact that the GATC's car numbering "system" in your era wasn't at all systematic, you could put almost any number on the car and no one could say you were wrong. I'll never

To get up to Lake Alamanor (2.2% grade) WP usually used three 2-6-6-2's spaced 10-12 cars apart, and fourth on the end, which might be a 2-8-8-2. For a typical thru train, at Keddie they would fill

Does anyone have information on the type of running board and brake step on 40ft boxcars NJI&I 4100-4270? These are steel 8-panel riveted cars of 10ft 4 1/2in internal height, 5/5 ends, and--I

That may well have been true to some extent, but twice as long? I doubt it. GN trains had to come up the steep and twisty Deschutes Gorge from the Columbia River before they got to Bend and

Thanks, Richard. I guess I'll go with the flow. OTOH, should I choose to stray from 1638 given the dearth of data, who's going to prove me wrong? Doing so sounds like a sure way to turn up a photo