Is there a commercial source in HO for the drop end gondola door with Pullman-Standard style straight corrugations? The P2K 'Greenville' cars that were made a few years ago had two different door styl

In all the recent posts, I have not seen a discussion of the 70 ton triple hopper. I bought one because I clearly remember them as being the "only" (which I think isn't completely true) triple hopper

while. I now is motor Another two cents added to this long string: I use 1/2 oz. fishing weights. Many out-of-the-box cars, resin or injection-molded, weight out near 2 oz. plus or minus depending on

Can anyone point me to a decent shot of Santa Fe RBL series SFRB 5800-5999? Class is Rr64. I have tried the usual places I look for photos, and it's not in the Santa Fe books I have. Because I'm prima

I'm from another major flour milling center, Wichita, and during the late 60s/early 70s there were a LOT of 40' boxcars on the loading tracks of the flour and other mills. While there were a significa

Talk about deja vu -- I remember seeing an L&NW "X29" car passing through Kansas on the Rock Island in about 1972, give or take a year, and I got a picture of it. I'd have to look, but I'm pretty sure

This is a break from the thread that has been going on for a couple days. I think the CB&T kits are great -- I've harvested about 30 stainless steel weights from them. They're flat and have a good fin

It was L&NW 6009. I actually have my list of scanned photos here on this computer -- don't know why I didn't look before I fired this message off. Ron Merrick Ron Merrick wrote: "Talk about deja vu --

I, too, listen to the wife complaining but in my case it's a) how much money goes into freight cars and b) how many times I go to the hobby shop. I've been able to find a good deal on screws. Best dea

Actually, I love it. I can't justify belonging to all these societies (note my id above) but since I can expect to see PRR cars showing up on my interchange tracks in central Kansas, I'd rather they b

All the discussion on this thread has been about car 'classes'. To me, car 'type' refers to the AAR designations, such as XM and RB and HT and so on. Since maybe10 to 20% of interchanged cars in this

So what do you suppose the engine is that's behind all these car management programs and waybill programs and whatnot that are advertised? And, no, I don't mean engine in the model railroad sense. I u

I'm working on one of these cars now. I'd second the idea of narrowing the Cal-Scale parts for the underframe between the trucks so they come out the same width as the current non-cushioned underframe

Even on the Gulf Coast, in "winter", in my railroad room which has a respectable amount of insulation, I still experience the effects of putting freight cars in the refrigerator in that the temperatur

I'll take this question since I make my living with pipe. Regarding line pipe, used for overland pipelines, the sizes could range from 3" to 24" OD in this era. The first long-distance 24" line was th

I'm looking for better data on the series L&N 97350-99, reportedly built 5-60 by ACF. (I'm of the opinion that anything that happened in that year is still fair game for this list.) My problem is that

Seamless pipe in that era was made by a process known as pilgering, which means that a hollow round billet was just rolled back and forth by angled rollers on the outside and the inside. The billet gr

There is also cast iron pipe, which in that era was cast gray iron made to ASTM and AWWA specs first issued in 1902. This was once "pit-cast" pipe, in which the molten iron was poured into vertical mo

That stuff, which API technically calls "casing and tubing", is similar to pipe in that it's long and round. Main difference is that it has threads at each end, so when it's shipped there will be thre

Following on my recent question about L&N specially-equipped boxcars of the late 50s and subsequent years, which were painted blue to denote the special equipment. I've looked more at the shots in the