-----Original Message----- From: Don Valentine riverman_vt@... [STMFC] To: STMFC Sent: Wed, May 21, 2014 8:33 pm Subject: [STMFC] Impending Cudahy meat reefers. Hi folks, Some have asked about c

Ed, Is there is an industry name for that style of taper on an offset hopper? Sunshine Models offered what it called a "chisel side" offset, which is the first I've heard that term. There were three-

Very sad news. The loss of one of our crowd is always sad, but as a member of the editing class who produced a fine and very useful magazine for the P&LE Historical Society, his loss will touch thousa

Click on the image, then right click on the image and a small menu should appear that asks the size you want, with the largest being "original." Click on that, then right click to "save as" in the fol

I've wondered if there was an industry term for that stepped side sheet -- a few roads purchased hoppers using this contour. The DL&W had two- and three-pocket versions, plus the four-pocket version v

Here's a link to the general arrangement drawing for Erie 90115: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie-frt-9-21.gif I don't have a photo of this car, but I do have one of the next series, 90648, i

Right you are, Ben Hom. The 35 Susie PS-1s were delivered with the streamliner-era S-ball, sans-seriff. The lighter-weight S-ball with seriffs was a later repaint. Careful, too, about a tiny Susie PS-

I'm late to this thread, but did you find a photo, Mark, and what are your thoughts on it? Thanks ....Mike Del Vecchio

Those DL&W quads were in reality 300 cars purchased from the Boston & Maine, which are very close to the B&O quads represented by the blue-box Athearn car. I have a few in the closet that I hope will

Yes, you're right, Richard, all were delivered with Youngstown doors. I do have pictures of cars with five- and six-panel Superior doors, thought he six-panel doors are far more common. Thanks ....Mik

I have good photos of these cars, ends, sides, roof and even the undersides. Lackawanna got 'em with both Youngstown and Superior doors and the cars wore all three DL&W paint schemes. They were not co

To add to Dennis's answer, the lettering was imitation gold on the Pfaudler cars, a pretty common color for lettering in the steam era. In the 1980s I looked closely at (wiping clean) the three cars g

Lackawwanna used bars on the cupola window interiors as well, and company memos described the installation as a way to prevent a trainman's head from breaking the window in the event of a sudden chang

Small-run reprints likely won't make sense for either the publisher or the purchaser, but perhaps RPC might consider electronic distribution on reprints, or even first-purchase. In this day-and-age al

The massive collection of Lackawanna Railroad glass plate negatives from Syracuse University has been moved to Steamtown. Historian Pat McKnight has been scanning the negatives and photos for the Erie

Agree that caboose color was likely railroad specific rather than a federal mandate. On the Lackawanna the cabooses were yellow at the beginning of the 20th Century. During the 1930s the railroad was

The color of the tanks may help. In chemical service they tended to be orange or blue, less carefully painted with minimal markings since they were freight cars in that context. In milk service they w

I'd vote for rail-shapes in various cross sections as well -- very useful when the rest of the structure is in styrene. I'd also vote for molding the rail-shapes in a "rail brown" color. ....Mike

Richard is right in that these ends were a little different than those on other roads. I never found out why, as the general arrangement drawings on the DL&W simply refer to the ends as Dreadnaught. I

As a musician I've used many retired guitar strings on models, .008" mostly on standard grab irons since they are much tougher than brass of the same thickness. E Strings (smallest on most guitars) co