Chris Rooney, As a fellow S scaler, I am doing a rework of the Am Flyer triple hopper into B&LE which is why I was pushing for these trucks to be made in S. Interesting to note the 36" wheels! Bill Mo

Ed Hawkins, Wow, thanks ever so much for all this info. Was interesting to see the heavy duty trucks also under the two bay hoppers! Bud Rindfleisch

I don’t have the photo handy, but if memory serves, it’s a dry ice car. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

Sorry if I missed it, but what is that light colored car left center? Thanks, Clark Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Delano. That guy was GOOD! Ed Edward Sutorik

Corey, That second truck looks more like it. from the looks of it, an Andrews truck wouldn't be hard to replicate. I, for one, find the detail adequate. Here's a photo from March, 1943 showing the And

Nice work on the Vulcan trucks! If they were available in S scale I would swap them out for the modified American Models trucks under the bashed Louis Marx bodies used to make the B&LE hoppers. These

Maybe it was on the Bessemer Southern ... DPayne

STMFC members, Following is a summary of B&LE twin or triple hopper cars equipped with the type of heavy-duty truck that has been discussed. I’m providing as much information as I have available from

Above is a shot of an Exacta rail UP B-50-15 flat car. I purchased the model at Naperville sub sequent to a presentation by Exacta rail. The model was very well done and needed onl a few upgrades. The

That is a good looking dry ice car in the photo and a rare picture. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Note also the unrestrained pole loads. J. Stephen Sandifer

Best to not get too picky with the dimensional accuracy of AHM products. Long ago I realized that product development at AHM consisted of finding a bunch of photos, not necessarily all of the same pro

Ike, Thanks for sharing the GREAT picture of Inman Yard. Is there a way to get a higher resolution copy so that I can make out some of the car numbers and details? Thanks again, Allen Cain

No. The Accurail PS-1 is the old McKean Models car, tooled by Front Range for Bill McKean to make use of the same floor as used on McKean's 40' double door boxcar. As to the AHM PS-1, which one" There

Garth Groff wrote: "IIRC the old AHM body with the separate ladders and a 7' door was 10' IH. I think this car was reissued by Model Power or somebody with the ladders and grabs cast in place. There w

Here is a “STMFC” era re-post from SouthernRailway.groups.io from the Southern Railway Historical Assoc. archives. Ike Subject: [SouthernRailway] Inman Yard in 1946 or 47 Date: February 20, 2021 at 2:

Photo: N&W Boxcar 47500 (Class B-7) A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2895 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Part of series 47500-4

With the discussion about the Rio Grande PS-1's, this brings up another question I have had. These cars came from USRE and many were rebuilt with non PS-1 parts. I no that I have seen a picture of the

I've never heard that before but can someone confirm this about the AHM PS-1... ?? Where did the Walthers PS-1 come from? (I think Accurail acquired that tooling.)