We do that too... our web site listing for the car that started this discussion says, "built 1925." Dennis Storzek

Buy all you want. We can still make 'em faster than you can buy 'em! :-) Dennis Storzek

Randy, That ban didn't take effect until far in our future, sometime right around the publication date of that book.There were no blanket age related bans during the steam ream and for that matter, wa

Just to finish this up, I'm going to post a link to the results of a search and see if it works: Distance between coupled cars Not exactly the same question but related there are some good comparisons

It's not just brass cars. Since ALL the couplers available to the hobby, except for the Kadee #711 "Old Time" coupler, the Sergent, and the PROTO:HO Accumate were/are oversize, there has always been t

Johannes, You first need to determine where the center sills actually end. In North American practice in our era, the sills were typically capped by a massive casting known as the 'striker casting', i

Well, they were red. I knew they were red. :-) Dennis

Several comments make it sound like this was an NP only phenomena. Actually, any of the 40' combo door cars that had a six foot main door with eight foot auxiliary doors had this problem. Soo 48300-48

Yeah, the boxcar underframe isn't modified, so still has the 5'-6" kingpin to striker dimension. When you look at the car, the wheel has more or less the same relationship to the car end as the old PR

That big plug door has to go somewhere when it's open. Just below the right end of the lower grab you'll find the door stop. Dennis Storzek

Clark, We do. They will come out as I get time to work on them, and those are really filler jobs between large projects. Dennis Storzek

Having inspected all the tooling, I find that only the first two releases, the 40' "long rib" single and double door cars, had molded on grabs. George then switched to supplying wire grabs, which, of

I can't tell what the top of the side frame looks like from the photo (too much shadow) but Tichy make a short wheelbase drop equalized truck that would fit: https://www.tichytraingroup.com/Shop/tabid

Can't be limestone, waaay too big a car for any mineral product, must either be sawdust or slash. Was cut slash sold as firewood back in those years? Dennis Storzek

http://www.gregariousrailfan.com/images/REA_rail_car.jpg Dennis

The other possibility, pointed out by that photo of loading brick into a stockcar, is a non-livestock backhaul load. While brick typically didn't move far enough to get a PRR car on the SP, cut stone

Don, it's era dependent. The ARA safety appliance drawing dated 1917, presented in the 1922 CBC, only shows one dome platform. I've always just assumed at some point the requirement was increased to o

While the WWI era stenciling that Eric linked to seems like an advertisement for the builder, kind of like the option list on a car dealer's window sticker, it eventually evolved to include only those

Those must be the cars I've found photos of... battered black USRA twins with a simple "OW" and number in white, no name, no herald. Somehow the "ow" seems fitting. Dennis Storzek

Nice find, Charlie. No, the book in my possession is from eight years later, June, 1926, and is limited to trucks and the Recommended Practice car designs the ARA had adopted; the single sheathed boxc