The B&O N-34 wagontop covered hopper clearance diagram calls out the trucks as type 51-U. At the moment, we B&O freight car guys have little research to tie that 51-U name to. No memos, no diagrams, n

Kent, some lettering decal input for you. If you can avoid it, do not use the supplied decals for your F&C N-34 wagontop kit. Worst B&O decals ever. Little resemblance to prototype practice. Here is a

In general, B&O often supplied its own truck sideframe casting patterns to the manufacturers. Nobody makes such B&O trucks for models. No one would know what to make. A lot more research is needed. We

If you are a library person, perhaps you have used the Worldcat catalog. (www.worldcat.org) It is 20,000 card cataologs rolled into one. 1. A quick search unearths something called The Annual of the A

I posted this on the B&O yahoo list and thought I would also post it here for tank car information and context. I retain the EMD FT locomotive procurement and operations information because it is inte

Additional research in B&O memos and photos develops some clarifications on the clarifications. 1. The roof stiffeners on the Tatum XLT roofs of classes M-27b (double door) and M-27f (single door) wer

Here are some publications from the B&OHS Companay store (www.borhs.org) that you will find useful: Equipment: #74036 B&O 1936 Summary of Equipment. Annual Roster of all LOCOs, FREIGHT, PASS, and MOW

Miles, here are some points to consider: - B&O traffic around Cincinnati was quite varied and defies generalities. It also depends on what line, Ohio Division traffic was different than Toledo Divisio

Some clarifications: Mansard roof is a Sunshine sales flyer fiction. Let's call it the Tatum XLT roof. What B&O called it. There were no single door class M-27f in 1940. This would be the predecessor

Arved, thank you for sharing this YouTube film. These are B&O class M-27b 40' double door automobile cars. They feature Tatum XLT extended roofs, to accommodate Evans auto loading ramps. Evans ramps w

As another poster answered, Speedwitch made excellent decals for their B&O M-26d/e Duryea underframe conversion kits and full kits. Decals for 1945-55 and 1955-1962 are different sheets. There are eno

The old Red Caboose X29/ARA boxcar kits had a choice of doors on the sprues, Youngstown and ARA doors. Some call the latter Creco door, similar but this may not be correct. Anyway, both doors choices

To change car numbers, you need seven inch reporting mark numbers and four inch end lettering, in the B&O font. These can be found on the pre-1955 M-26 decals from Speedwitch, and some Westerfield dec

As I recall, there were NYC Pacemaker (LCL) boxcars without dimensional data. Those were not intended for off-line use, either.

I worked with Bill Meredith of Proto West supplying B&O P-24/25 flat car prototype information for his master and decal graphics. I enjoyed the experience and the final product was very good. I'd like

No. The Bureau of Railway Economics Library is defunct. Their holdings were scattered. In various libraries across this country, I find "Bureau of Railway Economics Library" stamped in gold on the spi

I would add: There is only so much room for springs in conventional draft gear, only several inches of travel, which has to be stiff and bottoms out (goes solid) in short order. With a Duryea underfra

When I was building ship and airplane models as a kid, they came with the thickest rankest baddest decals imaginable. Monogram and Revell. Decal film was thicker than baseball card bubblegum. Worse th

Is this an end view of a USRA single sheathed boxcar? P&LE later applied steel side kits from Youngstown on their USRA boxcars. If this is the case, then an appropriate model would be hiding in plain

Pardon me for a basic question. In modeling, why do we rivet counters care so much about the number of stake pockets on a flat car? They are not a structural car part. Easily changed on models by mode