And Bruce, the Erie built its first steel cabooses of the design shown in that video around 1941. I should have said, "that Erie steel caboose." Walt Lankenau >

According to a Wiki article, sugar cane bagasse and wheat chaff can also be used to make furfural. Along with corn cobs, these are relatively light density loads, like wood chips. Did these IC cars ha

Excelsior (wood wool) an Aspen-fiber material similar to wood shavings, used for packaging and teddy bear stuffing. (Not that I knew that . . . Google told me. I was curious because Excelsior Mills is

forever quiet, forever dry (in both water and oil) and only needs inexpensive occasional refills (unless one is an overly extravagant user of air during the clean-up process). Where would one obtain s

I'm about to begin assembling some Branchline Yardmaster Canadian Pacific 1937 boxcar kits. The kit ends have 4 corrugations over 5, while the CPR cars had 5 over 5. Does someone make a 5/5 end that c

Ben and Tim, Thanks for the memory jog re: the Sylvan (CRMPG) resin ends, and the Red Caboose 1937 car. Turns out I have a stash of RC cars in the Spans the World scheme. I had found the paint and let

The May 08 MR has an ad on page 81 for a ballast hopper based on the MDC car. The body shell appears to be substantially the same as the old MDC model, albeit with nice wire grabs, roping staples, and

UP used this color on the roofs of its early streamliners. Try to find a color photo of UP's M10000, the City of Salina. Since it was built in 1934, that might not be easy. I believe some of UP's othe

The website shows ONE brakewheel and a price of $10, which gives the impression that they're $10 each. Would probably be a good idea to change the listing to reflect the fact that they're THREE for $1

transfers I was going to recommend C-D-S dry transfers, but their catalog does not list a GTW express boxcar, nor a similar CNR car. Perhaps your friend could cobble up express car lettering using sev

What era? Sounds like what you'd see on kaolin service boxcars with roof hatches. I don't know when roof-hatch boxcars began to be used in this service, but they were pretty common in the mid-60's. Wa

Here's an interesting product that was mentioned by John Horvath on the B&M list: http://www.archertransfers.com/catSurfaceDetails.html Apparently these are 3-D resin rivets and weld lines which have

wrote: It looks like most of the items are meant for larger scales (1/32 and 1/48), but hopefully the "small" rivets are suitable for HO. John specifically mentioned those, and he works in HO. So here

So, they do sound useful! The truly fastidious could cut the rivets apart and space them manually, if desired. Once I built up a Fowler boxcar side from strip styrene, and sticking on individual Athea

It specifies the pigment as sesquioxide of iron, which according to Google, "contains not less than 98.0% of iron (III) oxide (Fe2O3)". I would think that 98 per cent iron oxide would vary only slight

and You might find contacts and info in this website: http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/ There was at least one other brand of "kit" home, Columbia, IIRC. My grandfather had one of these delivered to

Here's an interesting example of car usage I found on page 57 of a new softcover book on the Quebec Railway, Light & Power Co. published by the Bytown Railway Society. In 1937, QRL&P bought two snow s

<schuyler.larrabee@...> wrote: Sounds logical, Schuyler. The poster might want to ask this question of the Boston & Maine Yahoo group: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/BM_RR/?yguid=158870863 Lots

What's the consensus on the quality/accuracy of the X26C? It was hard to tell from the posted pix, but it's apparently a one-piece body. Walt Lankenau

They look like Andrews with leaf springs. Walt Lankenau