There are several aspects of couplers and most of these have been discussed in the previous posts: Appearance, coupling distance, reliability, size, size of draft gear box, whether or not

Gene, Yes, this appears to be an F22 or F23. It has been discussed several times, and is the subject of an unproven legend that it was "stolen" from the PRR. See message 27798 for the

Montford Switzer wrote: Mont, I am unclear of what you mean as a "steady source of loads." Is this an industry or equivalent? By "regular moves" do you mean specific cars (e.g. ABC Boxcar #123), or

Please see eBay listing Iowa Terminal RR Snow Plow Motor #60 DUPLICATE Slide-NR Item number:

Details on the PRR cars from Bill Darnaby's posting on Saturday: DATE CAR LOAD ROUTING 1-28-49 PRR 573904 bean meal Allied Mills Inc, Fort Wayne,

Responding to: What can be learned from these NKP List of movements which can be used on your or anybody else's layout of the 1945-1955 era? Tim Gilbert Tim: I learned the specifics of a steady

Richard Hendrickson wrote: (snip) Richard, But it did happen in the first quarter of 1949 when these AESX "Staley" tank cars carried loads between Swift-Frankfort to Lever Brothers-Edgewater NJ.

william darnaby wrote: Bill, Thanks for the kudo, and if you keep releasing more data, I will put all that data on a spreadsheet, cross reference the cars with the 4/1949 ORER, and do a bunch of

The October 2005 issue of The Keystone Modeler is online at http://www.prrths.com/Keystone%20Modeler/Keystone_Modeler.htm Articles of interest include: Modeling PRR Flat Cars – Class F25 Scratch

Allen Rueter wrote: "The SP&S converted five 10000 series box cars (10019, 10078, 10128, 10155, 10218) to dry ice service. (10078, 10218) were assigned to Gas Ice, Klickitat Sprs WA in 1949." These

That's another issue... it's black & white -- I believe -- based on the tones of the photo. B&W images with a red herald seem to show up lighter in photos. But I'm open for suggestions! Red &

Doug Rhodes wrote: I don't think that's what was alleged, only that the "rule" that no Canadian mark cars ever got reloaded for U.S. destinations appears a bit legend-like. We're trying to

Elden Gatwood wrote: "No, tooling costs and pattern-making are not low cost. Several manufacturers spoke to me yesterday about this very subject. The choice of projects is a very difficult one. No

This evening I recorded a few observations about the distances between cars (actually between opposing draft gear faces or plates) to be ordinarily expected in the prototype (freight cars c. 1940),

The SP&S converted five 10000 series box cars (10019,10078,10128,10155,10218) to dry ice service. (10078,10218) were assigned to Gas Ice, Klickitat Sprs WA in 1949. Allen Rueter -- ------ Allen P

Several listers have written messages like, "I would convert to....if I didn't already have 100 cars with ......couplers already installed. It would be too expensive and too much trouble to change

scale Tim, I knew it was too good to be true, and I'm glad you explained it so I can understand before I did something really crazy like actually trying to make it work. That would have been

Use of a non duty paid conveyance to carry goods between two points within a country is "cabotage", which is indeed illegal in most countries. Thus, a freight car would normally move across the border

North American did, indeed, operate the AESX tank car fleet, but the cars with those reporting marks were owned by, and assigned to the service of, corn oil manufacturer A. E. Staley. It's certainly

Bill, Both the Car Service Rules and US Customs regulations required that cars of Canadian ownership built in Canada be either loaded to Canada or returned empty to Canada. Same with Mexico.