Haven't received a digest since Sunday #183. Checked system and came up with 421 server is busy, try again later. Am I the only one? Dan Smith

Bill Welch wrote: Prompted by Dan's message I ordered multiple sprues for the three Tangent tank cars with their brake wheels. The set from the 6K tank car is the one to get, the wheels from the GATC

Bill Welch wrote: My question is about the wheel rim. The rim on the Tichy "A" set are round or oval but on the "K" set the rims are more or less rectangular w/square edges. Are both Rim shapes protot

were the actual brake wheels used with flat cars and tank cars different than those used on reefers and boxcars. Depends on time period. Before geared hand brake were widely adopted, no, wheels on hou

To Bill, Gene and all. Yes Bill, can you give me some tips on photos off list, I would like to post more photos with the new IO format. There are several reasonable to good horizontal wheels that have

Damn that new feebay system Dan Smith

Dennis, Is this the wheel you have tooled? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Authentic-Vintage-New-York-Central-Railroad-Caboose-Brake-Wheel-/292635057719?_sop=10&hash=item4422689e37%3Ag%3AuDcAAOSw0d9bQ38Y&_nk

John Burrows has not been with Reboxx for a number of years. I have been getting the same message on the phone line as the others for several months and emails are not returned also. I do hope this tr

Hello Bill, There is no the in drop shaft hand brakes. There are many versions of drop shaft mechanisms. An overview of some is in RPCYC #10, P21 Equipco, P39 Peacock, P 44 Superior, P50 Universal, P

Is there B end shot? Thanks for the postings so far. Dan Smith

Tim, The 646 Klasing wheel that TLT did dates from 1949 to the end of production of the malleable wheel and the gear changed from the D-959 to the 1050 in '52 and to the 1150 in circa '54, and that wo

Tom Madden wrote: The particular Klasing wheel that RCW offers is the only one with spokes heavy enough to print Tom and Frank also, there is an earlier Klasing 646 wheel with a solid center hub. Cont

Tim O'Connor wrote: Also, Klasing had at least two distinctive styles Of what Tim? If you mean hand brake wheels, there are at least 6 versions of the 646 wheel that I know of that would be installed

Only speculation here but fabric could be to prevent spray from safeties ( overload condition? ) as spillage can be seen on tank. For the Beeno crowd familiar with this location, is this a rip track?

Tim, I went back and did some checking in my files. I didn't realize that a photo of the Corley replacement wheel had not been published in any of the previous articles that have been done on hand bra

Tim, Nice find. Corrosion doesn't look too bad to me for an unpatched car in '65. Check out the Dalman Andrews 2 level trucks. Brake wheel is a Corley replacement wheel on an Ajax housing. Often misse

There are 5 malleable ( cast ) versions of the Ajax 22" vertical brake wheel. These would apply for most of the time period of this list. The first 2 are rare and were only applied to very early gears

Elden, That car is the classic Van Dyke tank car. Can be done with the PSC kit in 6K version. Richard did an article on the standard gauge build some time ago, someone will remember where. Dan Smith

Tim O'Connor wrote: My only question is - is the reefer an R-30-21, or an R-40-21 ? Tim, All that is certain from the photo is that this car has a built up under frame. The car can be either a 30 or 4

Tim, Short answer to your implied question, no. The move to vertical wheel geared power hand brakes was the result of the shake out of various attempts to increase braking force that was needed becaus