Tim, There's a Dick Kuelbs photo of GN 25947 on the MKT in Dallas, TX in 1961 on page 17 of Great Northern Equipment Color Pictorial, Book One - Box Cars and Stock Cars, by Scott R. Thompson. Granted,

Greg asked: "Was there a regulated interval for repacking plain journals in the early 1950s? If not, what was a typical interval, please? I am hoping to be able to use repack dates to get realistic es

Bob Do you know of published photos of them in the 1960's? I've seen lots of photos of the 1930's AAR double sheathed cars well into the 1970's, but not the 1920's cars.

Tim, None of the GN’s USRA or clone DS cars were ever rebuilt as steel cars, and remained in revenue service into the 1960s. I have photos of them in MOW service in the BN era, Murphy XLA roof intact.

Good Morning, Jim Insights about long-lived USRA wood boxcars in an original hardware appearance would be welcome. Attached is an excel export from my box car database that contains data on 8838 serie

If I recall correctly, the Canadian Pacific clones survived in original form until the 80s in OCS service, being used for grain prior to that. But as that's mainly online service in Canada, I don't th

The question of repack (not reweigh) interval has been addressed here on at least two occasions -- see threads beginning with #67797 and #106475. These include weigh-ins from both Bob Karig and Guy Wi

Tony’s Modeling the SP blog has entries on reweigh requirements for different car classes and eras. Nelson Moyer

Jack, reweighing is not the same thing as lubrication of the bearings. Mandatory reweigh intervals were measured in years but the bearings required much more frequent maintenance. I don't know if this

I love the stencil on this one in 1972 - It's an X26F rebuild of course, but it's age hasn't changed. :-)

Correct... I have the attached list of dates, etc. taped just about my workbench. Note that I model 1939 so some of them might not be correct for much later modeling dates. Jack Burgess

Based on ORER data 3 Pennsy X26 made 1963 in revenue series. However, I’d take that with a grain of salt. They probably weren’t actually in service, just stored not yet white-lined. Face it, unmodifie

And in general the work was done wherever the car happened to be at the time :-) Case in point - this New Haven box car lubed by the Great Northern. Tim O'Connor

I don't know of any USRA double sheathed cars that survived un-rebuilt in the 1960's. There were still a few all-steel rebuilds but that's a whole other subject. The only single sheathed USRA cars I k

Charlie years ago I used the 36' MDC reefer and I think Clover House dry transfers https://cloverhouse.com/Cart/product_info.php?products_id=10176 Not a hi detailed model, but an op session good enoug

I believe Clover House offers twisted wire or cable. Cloverhouse.com There have been several other companies as well, look at ads in the Narrow Gauge Gazette Check Hobby Lobby for bead stringing wire,

From what I recall in discussions here, this was an annual interval unless it was needed beforehand. The repack stencil for date and location would be reapplied after the work was completed. Eric Hans

Thanks for all the replies and images. Lester Brewer upgraded a pre painted Accurail reefer that was done for a NMRA convention as one of his blogs. Am thinking that’s a logical choice for a decal set

Eric, I find that the RPCycs cut off at 1960. By publisher and author expressed intent. Like a certain freight car group. There is no information about freight car lives beyond 1960 in images or narra

Let me try again copying and pasting as jpgs. These are from the Tom Underwood collection at the Barriger library, showing the rebuilt M-15n and M-15p that all the M-15k wagtontops disappeared into du