Hello Garth, The 50 foot PS-1 with 8 foot door opening is, more or less, still on our "possible" future project list, which changes all the time. Doing this car would require a new body and

I photographed that tank car at Steamtown in August 1997 and have just uploaded six scans to the STMFPH <Files> section. They are in a folder titled "NATX 4753 Tank Car". The

Kevin; Thanks for that great scan! Tom; I agree with Bruce, and Kevin's scan indicates it is almost certainly an early GATC product, and the bolsters, tank supports, angled draft gear support

Manfred I don't get it... how do you place a single rivet using a large template? Tim O.

I would bet that the best tool for the brass rivets on posts that you and Dennis have referred to would be a good milling machine with an Albrecht keyless chuck for the very small drills. A digital

Placing rivets is probably as important as making them. The aircraft modelers use this tool: http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXHZ25&P=0 Manfred

0.2mm need to through price :-( the Ted, These are offered by Fohrmann at Euro 6.50 ($7.70) incl. 16% VAT per 40 rivets. So send over your

Those CGW 50-footers are interesting cars. I think that the IH was not 10'6" but 10' 5" if memory serves me correctly. Of course, I cannot imagine that the difference would be significant in any of

On Wed, November 9, 2005 5:59 am, Kevin Lafferty replied: Tom, Kevin, This car is identifiable as a General American built car. The spotting feature is the lack of side and end sills and the

Sam, I keep hoping you will give us the 50' single 8' door cars. Lots of roads had these (including the WP and TS), and nobody has ever offered them in HO. IIRC, this car was originally listed in

Here's a link to a photo of the car in question. http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/natx4753.jpg Kevin Lafferty "Thomas M. Olsen" <tmolsen@...> wrote: List, While we are on the subject

Eldon, The car is riveted, has wooden running boards, and has the parallelogram with the name within on the side of the tank. As I do not have the capacity to make scans I can not at this time send

Tim - The only error that I can detect in your statement is that the CGW 1937 AAR box cars had riveted, not welded Pullman-Standard ends. I have builder's photographs of all three classes of cars

et al, If any of you might happen to be in Northeastern Ohio this next Saturday 12 November we are having our 10th Annual Convention again in Sharon, Ohio at the Town Hall on the circle. This

Bill Welch wrote: As several have replied, Bill, it's for the Athearn tank car. And though it's true I published an article on converting one of these models for SP use, I got my ideas and the

<SNIP> Any suggestions or recommendations would be appreciated. Eric, The next project for the PRR Pro group is the H21 hopper, and is due to start soon. This will involve discussions over not only

John Golden wrote: Dave Hussey replied: "John, as someone who puts on a meet, you should know that the models on display are what are brought and you have no control over what shows up. I don't

I have no problem with paying for photocopies of the presentations... And I'd be very happy to pay for CD's for some of them too!!* It cracks me up when people gripe about paying a buck or two for

The CGW Pullman built 50' cars with the so called PS 0 ends were 10' 6" IH and had centered 7 panel superior doors. I showed a Sidney Wheeler photo to Ted. He really liked the car. Whether he will

All this loose talk about CGW "PS-0's" is confusing me! :-) CGW owned welded PS box cars that we call "PS-0" -- series 90000-90049. They also owned 1937 AAR box cars built by PS with PS welded ends.