North American's tank cars were mostly Pressed Steel cars built in the late 1920s. GATX did have some STC tanks from the various smaller fleets they bought up over the years, primarily the ~3000 STCX

Good find. I ordered a set. David Thompson

PRR did a one-off Gla rebuild (Glf) and Stan Rydarowicz made a kit for it at one time. That would be the closest commercial match to the CN/GTW/CV cars. Otherwise, you're on your own for modifying a G

I missed out on the Sunshine cars, so I'll be in line for 2-3 of these. What's this 54" dome stuff? I thought the larger dome % was one of the Class III requirements? David Thompson

Double-sheathed rebuilds with a fairly deep inset sill. Z-bar callout was for the roof eave. Sunshine did the 10'6" rebuilds: http://www.sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun64b.pdf David Thompson

The Kadee car would be the best choice: http://www.kadee.com/ca/50ton/jpg/7054l.jpg http://www.kadee.com/c... Preview by Yahoo David Thompson

Looks like it was straight on the (longer) N&W GSC flats. NWHS NW-G45137-NW Mech Dwg NWHS NW-G4513... N&WHS Home Search the Archives Modify... Preview by Yahoo David Thompson

"The text and drawings both specify a 9" ship builder's channel for the front and back sills of the frame. Yet when I look at all the prototype photos I can find of this car, they do not seem to have

This brings up something I've wondered about. My understanding was that Dreadnaught ends and the like were formed by pressing a steel sheet between sets of blocks arranged in a pattern to produce the

Earliest examples of the Viking Corrugated Roof that I know of were built in 1934, and I've seen drawings of it dated 1933. The Climax Radial Roof dates back to at least 1924, and I would suppose the

No, CBCs wouldn't have that level of detail. What you need are vendor or railroad drawings for the specific end (not the general arrangement drawing). David Thompson

I posted some pics and drawings of an N&W application here: Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. Steam era freight car discussion group. The time...

If I had to guess, the car was *rebuilt* by Vulcan at some point. The car does have most of the Gla traits (end support style, end sill profile, exterior top eave) except for the PRR taper side posts.

What the CGW cars did was to shift the interior vertical posts so that the secondary flange (alternating rivets) was inboard of the primary flange (full rivets) where the panels overlapped. PRR's inno

The book does have a nice assortment of hopper pics over the years. Teens and 20s cars looked like this: http://nebula.wsimg.com/obj/QzUzRThBNkUzMjY4RDk2NzMwOEM6NWI1MGEwODkwODM1Mzk2ZjdjNjQ4OTRlNTgwNDV

Or you could use the ends from a Westerfield kit. David Thompson

Do you have a timeframe associated with the abbreviations? "SIE" could be Southern Iron & Equipment, which was a reseller in the era of this list. USRE was also primarily a reseller, though both did b

1934 is an interesting date to model. Almost nothing had been built in the few years previous, so the freight car fleet was almost entirely cars built 1900-1930 or so. The older wood-frame truss-rod c

Naah, typical double-sheathed box with inside steel framing. The outside braces were an attempt to reinforce the ends and corners of the car. David Thompson