Hi Charlie, Thanks for the info. Actually I thought I was replying to Charlie Duckworth who was with UP years ago, ex-MP guy as I remember and a very good guy to work with. I'll try to make sure I get

Hi Charlie, My name is John Larkin. My wife Sherri and I both remember you (great memories I should add) from our Missouri Central days when we were fighting the battle to keep the line alive. My ques

OK, these are present on all prototype trucks. Question is, does anybody make this detail part in HO to add to the myriad of trucks that lack this detail - and rock more as a result in many cases. Tha

I think you have to remember that there are differing grades of crude oil. The Canadian oil train disaster happened in part because the shipper didn't let the railroads know that the North Dakota crud

I grew up in Marshall, Michigan where we had a pickle "factory" and in early days (1952-54) or so NYC was running steam engines and an occasional funny looking car would be left at the pickle factory.

Several years ago I bought a number of track panels and switches from Cliffs Mining. During the inspection I found a few small piles of taconite, probably leaked from cars. The taconite pellets were a

Lot of good ideas out there but there has to be one oddball in the bunch and I guess I'm it. I looked at a drawing I'd gotten from Lima in high school of a NYC 4-8-6 and have finally decided that a we

It's been a while, but years ago when I was working for UP I saw a brakeman take a step backward on a flat car deck and step down to his knee in a hole on the deck. He wound up with a slight sprain an

Makes very good sense when the word "detector" bar hit my brain. Ingenious device, and when I heard this context and looked at the pix again it finally sunk in. By the way, "Armstrong" was a term I fi

Thanks, guys, for the info, but I still have a question. The points are just starting to appear in the bottom of the pix and the linkage for those I would suspect is just at the very bottom of the pix

Maybe I missed it somewhere, but on the outside of the left rail in the track centered in the picture is what looks to be some type of rail brace controlled by an Armstrong lever. There are a series o

On level ground, yes. However, if there is a curve involved, which might be looking at the picture, or a grade, that's an entirely different matter. I have an old message from UP that calls on the tra

They were used in timber bridges in North America, especially in holding timbers together, not for clamping rail to the bridge. Also, I haven't seen them, but I have been told by MofW people that they

Hi Ron, Thanks for the news on the C&NWHS modeling issue. Got the mainline modelers today, came back early from working at the farm because one of our helpers (daughter's boyfriend, 19 years old and i

Love to see a track diagram of this location. The DL&W siding looks like it might curve away further, and the parallel siding is just a stub track, making the mainline connection a bit strange given t

I was the Manager of Grain Trains in 1978-80 on UP. All the cars assigned to unit grain trains were covered hoppers, all from UP when we started the shuttle grain program, running from Western Kansas

Anyone have plans or know where they might be for any of these multi-purpose cars? The C&EI car would make a great model for my live-steam railroad (1.6" scale), assuming I have enough money to buy al