Ahem. When you've got serious grades, you need serious brakes! (Athearn makes the roller bearing version of the clasp brake trucks.)

Were those trucks also equipped with the larger 36-inch diameter wheels? Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

For those (like myself) who are picky about such things, the side frames on the Helium car trucks are definitely different from those on the CC/BLE hoppers, but the hopper trucks are the best thing we

For those (like myself) who are picky about such things, the side frames on the Helium car trucks are definitely different from those on the CC/B&LE hoppers, but the hopper trucks are the best thing w

RE: Helium Car Trucks - This is Jay Miller's helium car clinic handout: http://www.atsfrr.org/Reviews/HO/Freight/Helium/HeliumHandout.pdf Photos of the trucks appear about two-thirds of the way down t

Thanks to Ed for his interesting comments. In my early years of watching ACL equipment, I often thought some of the black cars were "gray" but later figured out it was just weathered black. Don't know

Thank you for all the replies! Guess I will scratch that idea off the list! I saw the 1948 build date and just assumed Rio Grande bought them new. I do have plenty of Pierre's Rio Grands cars to keep

Corey, Yes, those look to be the same 70 ton truck the B&LE used on the three bay "ore" hoppers. While at some point in time the outside brakes were removed just leaving the extended side frames as is

Ken Montero wrote: Yes, I did that and it was pretty easy. Tony Thompson tony@...

Roundhouse (Model Die Casting) made such a truck (outside brake hanger) as a part for a kit of B&LE hoppers. The trucks were part no. 2919, "Roller Bearing (heavy duty)". Source: Walthers 1984 HO scal

Well said, Tim. I follow the same principles. Tony Thompson

I was giving some thought to these trucks, wondering why high capacity cars (85 and 90 tons capacity) of the pre-war period all seemed to use clasp brakes while our modern 100 and 125 ton cars don't,

You might want to check Corey Bonsall's products on eBay. He sells the D&RGW/UCR heavy duty gondola trucks which appear pretty similar. Todd Sullivan

Hi Bud, I haven't been able to find drawings of those specific trucks, but like Tim mentioned, they were also used on the Carbon County Railway 3 bay hoppers here in Utah. I had found some drawings of

I’d like a B-1b. Contact me off line at summers1218@... please.

Tim, As I said, Jim Eager's book shows photos of both a 10' and a 10' 6" IH car from the leased D&RGW series. It was apparently a mixed bag. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

So after a bad paint job, then trying to strip them and warping the sides. I scraped the first ones, made new castings and starting over. The cars are available. For $30 you get the sides, ends, floor

Tim O wrote: > Exactly one railroad bought 10-0 IH PS-1 box cars with 7 foot doors - the New Haven. And they bought 1500 of them! Did somebody say 7 foot door? Isn't that what the old Kurtz Kraft, lat

I make a small contribution ($3) to the INTERNET ARCHIVE each month, because they preserve much of what has been lost already!!Yay for the Wayback Machine!! :-) I support Wikipedia for the same reason

It looks like a complete version of steamerafreightcars.com from 11-30-20 (as well as earlier copies) is available on the Wayback Machine. I didn't look in every nook, but it seemed complete to me.