Schuyler Larrabee wrote:

Many years ago, I was looking desperately for some PSC GP handrail
brackets. I ordered them from Walthers and kept getting an answer
"Out of stock at the manufacturer." This went on for months.
Finally, I realized that PSC was essentially up the road a ways - I
lived in San Francisco then, and at that time PSC was located in
Woodland CA, just up Interstate 80 a few miles. So, I called
information and got their phone number, called them up and asked
when they would be making more of the particular part I wanted. I
was greeted with laughter, not mean laughter, but laughter
nonetheless. When he regained his composure, he asked "How many
pounds of them would you like?"
That little story is to suggest that you should call PSC
directly. I suspect you could get several pounds of the "Brass
Angle Cock Brackets" if you do so.

Exactly. Walthers is like a lot of hobby shops. When they say "out
of stock," it may easily just mean "not convenient for us to order
right now," as Signature Press has learned also with MANY hobby shops
regarding our books.
I recently arranged a bulk order of PSC parts with little trouble
and a nice discount. DO call them.

Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA
2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com
(510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@...
Publishers of books on railroad history

On Jan 3, 2010, at 3:09 PM, railwayman wrote:

Are the TMW 201 "50 ton Dalman 2-level trucks" suitable for this
car as modelled by the Westerfield kit?

Steve, the Santa Fe Dalman trucks had Barber Lateral Motion devices,
so what you need are the TMW #202 trucks. Actually, the Bx-11s had
Dalman 2-level trucks, for which the TMW HO scale trucks are dead
on. The Bx-12s, built a year later, had Dalman 1-level trucks, which
were made only briefly ca. 1930-'32, and have never been modeled in
HO. However, the TMW #202s are quite close - as close as you're
going to get.

Richard Hendrickson

Are there published plans for a AAR twin hooper?   I would like to build one in 1.5 in scale.

Thanks for all replies so far.

Dave J.

I will add to Brian Leppert's reply of the series being GT 64300-65299, the additional note that these cars were renumbered to CN 659000-659999 during the 1923-1932 period, with the last surviving car being removed in 1981 (GT 64300 was assigned CN 659000) -- there were still 650 cars in this series as of the 1960 cutoff date of this list.

As a group, these cars were constructed by National Steel Car from 4-6/1921 (GT 64300-64699) and 9-11/1921 (GT 64700-65299). I'm not sure of the reason for no cars having been built during the summer months -- it's possible that there was a summer shutdown for vacation (I recall my grandfather noting this as a standard practice at the CPR shops in Winnipeg where he worked for many years -- everybody simply got the same couple of weeks as the entire shop shut down), or perhaps there was a labour issue. It's also possible that there were two separate lots of cars involved (especially given the neat 400/600 car split), although I only know of one lot number.


Ian Cranstone
Osgoode, Ontario, Canada
lamontc@...
freightcars.nakina.net

On 2010-01-02, at 10:33 AM, Lester Breuer wrote:

Grand Trunk flat number 64300 photo on p. 172, Fig. 135 in Train Shed Cyc. No. 62 from the 1925 Car Builders or photo in 1928 Car Builders Cyc. p. 190, Fig. 143. I do not have an ORER to get number series. Can someone tell me the number series this car was in?

wheels, which weren't outlawed by the AAR until 1958, but it would
have been very rare for a car that was delivered with one wear
wrought steel wheels to have them replaced with anything else.

Richard Hendrickson

File : /NP USRA twin LoganMT66.jpg
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Description : NP USRA clone still in coal service when this 1966 photo was taken.

You can access this file at the URL:
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I found these photos on the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library's Burgert Brothers Photographic Archives.

Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA
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Here is an ACL single sheathed box car in front of the Celo Company of America warehouse. The image commemorates the first freight car shipment of Celo soft drink. Tampa, FL. May 7, 1930.

http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive06/5510.jpg

Additional ACL cars.

http://digital.hcplc.org/burgert/archive09/8591.jpg

Can anyone identify the car on the left in the second photo?