I agree. I seem to recall the IC was called upon to provide boxcars for temporary housing for several of the bad floods in the early part of the twentieth century. Dennis Storzek

I've never read that the Westinghouse brake schedule designations had any meaning beyond just being a designation for the schedule of equipment, but they had to come from somewhere. The meaning of C a

It's temporary. Note it's laid on top of the pavement and the ramp rails on each track. Likely they are doing track renewal somplace out of the picture and need the ability to establish a single track

That's what they make shovels for. The men on work trains were mostly rated as laborers anyway... want heat tonight... shovel enough coal into the bunker to last us the week. Long after the steam era,

I thought I wasn't supposed to see any of those cracks between the boards? Dennis Storzek

Copperweld is definitely the product to use. Copper coated seven and nine strand steel cable, it was the material of choice for all parts of overhead except the contact wire. Back in the seventies I w

Most likely a boxcar converted to work service. That's my guess. The truck or wagon just pulled away, and the next to be loaded is not yet in position. The guy with the shovel is cleaning up what lump

Don, You do realize that the USRA double sheathed car has a wood frame, so there was no framing to be saved. YSDCo. just viewed the underframe (which did have steel side sills) as a raft upon which to

Just a reminder, I am selling a bunch of KITS on e-bay. Auctions ending this Sunday include Red Caboose Pennsy X29 and Mather Reefer KITS. Sunday afternoon I will be launching actions for early Interm

We hadsome discussion a while bach about which side the dome platform belongs on when the car has it on only one side. Looking for something else in the Safety Appliance section of the 1922 Car Builde

Always a danger when trying to condense the history and progression of freightcar features to two paragraphs, that someone will cite an example that runs counter to the general rule. Obviously, since

The difference wasn't driven by the hatch covers, although they changed with time. It most certainly was driven by they type of roofing. The early metal roofs were thin sheet metal and were felt to no

Well, so I finally looked at the drawing of the Erie car for the actual truck centers rather than guessing. They are 11'-2", or 22'-4" over the outer trucks. With a 5" displacement from center line, a

It's also likely barely enough for model railroad curves. A quick layout in CAD shows that if the car has twenty foot truck centers between the outer trucks, the center truck needs to displace .053" o

I agree with Jack. Also, Dreadnaught ends with W section corner posts made use of castings or forgings to terminate the side sills and the Z bar that formed the side plate, and these parts had curvatu

That car was discussed by William Voss in his work on freight car construction, reprinted years ago in the Trainshed Cuclopedia series as "Freightcars 1892". I don't recall the name of Voss' original

And, since one of our distributors wanted them in multiple road numbers, there are now three times as many individually numbered models as what the prototype had :-) Dennis Storzek

That's pretty much what dry transfer lettering is / was; the ink without the decal film. Problem si, they tend to be hard tp position. Does anyone still make dry transfers since CDS left the market? D

That's not the in-service paint... you can see the parts that haven't been repainted are totally devoid of any paint. So, somebody painted it with what they had, no guarantee of a match, and only repa

http://cdm16066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16066coll27/id/8731/rec/47 Why does everybody keep making this about the coupler? It's an END STRAIGHTENER. The rod back to the knuckle pi