Do you mean this? Brake Booster Near as can tell its main function is to double the power available from a vertical staff hand brake by making the hand brake chain into a two part line; note that afte

Thanks Ben. Since its not the car I was thinking of, I have nothing that will help you. However, I encourage you to order the N&W drawing David has identified. This is one level deeper than the typica

You mean this: https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/album?id=43499 I've never seen one on any Soo car with a fishbelly UF, nor is it shown on the Haskell & Barker drawings of the early twenties cars (th

Yeah, it does, but I don't think the Viking name was in use in 1916, being a trade name Chicago-Cleveland transitioned to some time around WWII. Dennis Storzek

I, of course, have a soft spot in my heart for models of these cars, and this is a very nice build, and an extremely nice paint and weathering job. Dennis Storzek

Ben, Are these the cars with the Murphy corrugated ends? Dennis Storzek

Actually, McMaster Carr Co. has several varieties, Methyl, Ethyl, and Isopropyl all at 99% concentration (not that it stays that way if you leave it open), in pints, quarts, gallons, and fives. Only p

Where is the LIKE button when I need it? Dennis Storzek

Steve, Ron Sebastian had those tooled after he bought my resin kit line to replace the white metal steps I mastered for my NYC double sheathed boxcars. That attachment was meant to mount to the steel

Thanks Eric. I don't know why we don't have a picture on our parts page http://accurail.com/accurail/parts.htm But they are #183, three sets for three bucks, or #184, thirty sets for twenty bucks. lis

Yeah, and I may have put the date of the change a year or two early. I thought the new S was used on the cars leased in the mid fifties, but I was mistaken. The first use was on a series of 40' combo

The large square 'boxcar block' lettering dates to the summer of 1951. This original version had the center bar of the S sloping downward at a slight angle, maybe five or seven degrees. This was modif

Last I knew, Al was in CROSSVILLE, Tenn, which is a bit farther east and south. Dennis Storzek

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