Thanks Eric. I was wondering. I saw Kalmbach had the car listed among new items, but no photo. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

I looked for these at the National Train Show but Bachmann did not have them displayed. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

David, Thank you very much for all the information on Reading hoppers. I will keep the attached documents on file for the HTn build and reference for possible upgrades to the F&C and Stewart kits I

Jack and Bruce, Thank you for your kind responses. I did intend to add the car number to my original post. It is 70056, so this appears to be an HTn. I'm leaning toward putting a horizontal brake

Hi Eric, Thanks much for sharing your diagram books. I've been looking to model some hopper cars since K4 Supply Company now sells Lehigh Valley HO scale decals. Having this additional info is a big

Dennis Warren Weiss recently invested in a Form Labs Form2 SLA printer and is making castings for his scale. I suspect he will go back and upgrade some of his older cars. He built a Brill gas

Surprising the builder would miss that... although I suspect he'e investigating having custom investment castings made. Dennis Storzek

And absolutely NONE of those parts are interchangeable between different brands of couplers. A really good illustration of the need for standardization, answered by the adoption of the ARA Type D

At some point, it got one. I think the camera angle didn’t see it. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Tony Thompson <tony@...> Reply-To:

good grief - wrong photo -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

It appears to be one of Warren Weiss's outdoor railroad models - he scratchbuilds in a large scale and has a beautiful outdoor layout in California. He often posts on Facebook.

I'm not sure this will be of interest to those on thislist. This is a PDF of a American Steel Foundries Catalog from 1911. Itis a catalog of knuckles, pins and locks only (and is missing pages 5& 6 -

The one thing that gives it away is the rail joiner on the first track, amazing modelling. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Armand, KCS 21001-21300 (AC&F, 4-56) with 8' doors and 4/3/1 late Dreadnaught ends can be done with the Front Range or later Atlas(?) models. A builder's photo was in Ed

The photos look like a large scale (2.5” gauge) model built by Warren Weiss fromSoCal. It is a B-50-13. I have attached another picture shown on his backyard railroad. Gene Deimling

I thinks it’s a pacific limited o scale model.. perhaps done by Lee Turner an exquisite custom painter from MI. Brad Andonian Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

I'm not a Reading expert, but HTn quad hoppers would fit the 1924 blt date. A photo of 70455 with a 3-48 reweigh date shows a vertical wheel geared handbrake. It's a broadside photo, so I can't ID

Odd if it’s prototype, no coupler. Tony Thompson

I think it's a great modeling job. That photo required great examination, but a couple of things give it away. First is the track. Under a 40-foot boxcar on 39-foot rails would be at least a couple of

Jim, I am not a READING hopper expert but I have a few photos. I believe that you would be mistaken to assume that these cars started life as composite cars. The options are HTL or HTN class