Kiesel trucks plus the air reservoir

yep some had Buckeyes

How about bulkheads for submarine construction? General Dynamics in New London CT. Any other sub builders out there?

Perhaps but the F29 had rivets on the sides and especially those triangle deck supports, both of which can be seen in the photo. Do you know of other depressed center flat cars with the deck supports?

How would you go about cutting perfect circles from sheet styrene to model that load? I'm thinking .020 sheet looks about right for those.

Thanks! Extreme modeling, indeed. :-)

Speaking of Yarmouth -- I can't see a difference between the "early" and "late" styles of the end doors. Can someone tell me how they are different?

what a great idea ! just make a really long drill bit ! :-)

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I think Armand of The Caboose bought out Oriental's surplus. One year in the late 1990's at the Springfield show in Massachusetts he had a HUGE display of brass "stuff". I bought a beautiful small Gre

The PRR had a 4-wheel trucked flat car class FD2 but it was quite different and quite a bit larger. Most American cars with 8 or more axles used span bolsters and 4 trucks.

Anthony Wenzel After Oriental he started a little brass importer called AWE - Anthony Wenzel Enterprises - using stolen plans from the Shoreham Shops (around the time when Samhongsa let Lionel use som

IMO the best way to store model train information is in simple English text files. All it requires is the ability to use a keyboard and some kind of editor - you can use Notepad or Wordpad or Emacs or

That reminds me of my Dad's model storage. He would collected cigar boxes from stores (that would otherwise just be discarded) and use the kit boxes to make cardboard 'slots' that would immobilize the

GN later modified these cars for two uses - the first cars were cut down in height, and a hatched roof was added. These cars were in zinc ore service. The other cars also received hatched roofs but no

They were coal hoppers. I suppose some grades of coal required steeper slope sheets. There were lignite coal deposits in GN territory and I think that type of coal is "brown dirt" rather than hard coa

Folks Serious brass collectors would FAINT if you told them you wrapped your brass models in bubble wrap. I have seen bubble wrap and the wrong kind of plastic wrap wreck paint jobs. There is high qua

Is that a GATC Type 17 tank car?

Intermountain's roof is not the best, and there were possibly underframe differences, and the SP cars had doors you must obtain from Southwest Scale Productions - But other than that I know of no reas

Moloco has a mailing list for announcements. When they get parts & trucks in stock it is usually announced. The trucks were promoted last month and I guess have all sold out already. A recent TANGENT