Underframe only. The buyer had many options in specifying the tank. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax,

Jared Harper wrote: I'm not sure where all the "hijacking" talk comes from. I did not see it in any session I was in, nor did I hear about it while I was there. It's certainly offensive when it happen

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Notice the single-sheathed box car with wood framing, pointed out to me by Cyril Durrenberger. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley,

David Thompson wrote: If you mean "route card board," it is there, right on the bolster at the left of the car side (and has a card). If you mean "placard board," there wasn't one. Tony Thompson Edito

Marty McGuirk wrote: I had an NP box car awhile back that I began to call "the unluckiest freight car." In building it, it seemed like everything that COULD go wrong, did. I had to rescue the model se

Armand Premo wrote: Armand, as I always observe, canopy glue gives me the best results with dissimilar materials like you mention. You can read my comments at: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2013/0

Rod Miller wrote: Unless I'm missing something, it looks like a standard FGE overhead bunker car, probably FHIX. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 9470

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Ed Mines wrote: First, nomenclasture. There was no "R-16," so I suppose you mean R-30/40-16, the slash signifying that cars might have 30-ton or 40-ton underframes, but the same superstructure, Second

Underneath on Bettendorfs, not through. Through, not under, on built-up underframes, including express reefers and the 52-foot cars with deeper center sills. Shaken, not stirred. Defense, not offense.

Ed Mines wrote: The cars which were rebuilt from cars with Bettendorf underframes, had "low-slung" brake equipment because the lever had to pass beneath the center sill. But any car rebuilt from a car

Bruce Smith wrote: Thank you, Bruce, and well said. And I have no reason to doubt that the rebuilds likewise were proportioned 60% Bettendorf, 40% built-up, like the new cars. The only way to be CERTA

Ed Bommer wrote: I think this summary folds several things together, possibly confusing the issue. The first ready-mixed paint, in a newly-invented resealable metal can, debuted in 1880. By 1910 many

Eric Lombard wrote: Thanks, Eric. Good sources. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-m

Fenton Wells wrote: I vividly remember when I interviewed Earl Hopkins, the retired Chief Mechanical Officer of PFE, and said something in passing about a "herald." He looked blank and said "what?" I

Frank Greene wrote: My dictionary says, if it's not a physical medal, it's an "oval or circular design." It's true that PFE for a few years used metal plates for this purpose, but SP never did, to my

Nelson Moyer wrote: Not true. In Photoshop you can sample the color and get either an RGB or CMYK proportion; you can do the same with a scan from the book. Whether you want to trust the comparison is

Dave Nelson wrote: Quite true, Dave, but my suggestion was to use the RGB or CMYK proportions sampled from compared images, NOT to trust what you see on the screen. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Pre

A product of the Bettendorf company, naturally. A one-piece I-beam, cut so that it would taper toward the bolster -- a bad plan, as it turned out, as the SP among others found fatigue cracks emanating

Whether they were used that way, I don't know, but Bettendorf promoted them for new construction, and the Harriman Lines, among others, bought plenty of new cars with this underframe, and to my knowle