Friends, A safety data sheet on Super Clean Degreaser can be found at https://www.superclean.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-SuperClean-Degreaser-SDS-v2.0.pdf . The product is corrosive to metals,

Allen and friends, I saved this photo to my desktop and lightened it a bit with Photoshop to see the trucks. They are a very interesting heavy-duty Andrews type with outside hung brakes shoes. They ap

Nelson, Some Seaboard express cars looked like the attached photo. Does anybody make a Wine ventilator casting like this? Looks like a good candidate for a computer-generated part. According to John G

Friends, This list is very interesting. Note the SP and subsidiaries are the top owners with 3,100 cars, followed by the GN with 2,550, the NP with 2,000, UP with 1,501, CMStP&P with 1,000, and even t

Friends, Just back from the Shenandoah Valley Model Train Show in Virginia. On one of the modular layouts a 'vested interest" was running a train of 77 billboard beer refrigerators, all different, and

Ron, See Henry Maywald's CLASSIC FREIGHT CARS Volume 7, page 37 for a color photo of an MRS steel car in green. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Friends, This was about the tail end for the all-metal cars, although MDC stuck with cast metal underframes for a long, long time. I think MDC was doing plastic shells on some cars as early as 1958. S

Peter, I don't know the answer to your question, but it would be quite a while. Each of the two cars chained to the floor would have to be unchained, then worked out with a swiveling jack. Then the tw

Friends, While skimming through the Ed Wilkommen photos, I noted this view which included an NJI&I boxcar: https://www.lakestatesarchive.org/Ed-Wilkommen-Collection/Freight-Cars/i-r5ZmB9k/A . Besides

Jerry, See RMC May 2001 for an article on these cars. These cars are also covered in Jim Eager's RIO GRANDE COLOR GUIDE TO FREIGHT AND PASSENGER EQUIPMENT. I you don't have access to these works, plea

Friends, Attached is a partial of P&SR 126 which was grounded near Clear Lake in the early 1960s. This was my father's shot, now in my collection. The original question about interchange of P&SR cars

Tim, In Tony's PFE book he mentions records that claim some, perhaps 200, had R-30-12 underframes. So far no proof has surfaced. I believe they were all R-30-13s, except for their Hutchins roofs on th

Tony, Could you please comment on this photo? Is the underframe the illusive R-30-12 type we've all be hoping for, or an R-30-13? The underframe is pretty dark, but the bolster ends are showing slight

Good Friends, In the past we've talked about an early work on Standard Oil. I'm not sure if this is same the book, but a reprint of Ida Tarbell's 1904 THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY is curren

Friends, Are the Varney metal boxcars reasonably close to AAR 1932 standard dimensions? I know they are in many ways crude, and there are better alternatives today (F&C resin and Atlas). Those dimensi

Clark, True, but more or less out of our period. WP bought two 40' MILW boxcars of 1948 vintage for to carry Ammana appliances, I suspect as part of a pool arrangement. They were numbered 3416-3417, a

Bob, The message from which you are quoting is gone off my machine. Your message, and those of several others, do not quote the thread. From my limited experience journal lids on early roller bearing

Stephen, Why not scratch build a door with at least minimal detail on the inside? All you need is a photo of a Superior door from the back (maybe a car interior shot), some thin styrene sheet and stri

Tim, The second group of the silver cars (19521-19542) were drawn at random from 20821-21400 in 1952-54. They were originally BCR, black ends and roofs (car cement, probably painted black over) and le

Tim, I can add to Ed's excellent information that this "small-feather" paint scheme was used on other load-restrainer or cushion-underframe cars purchased or rebuilt by the WP in the mid-to-late 1950s