Group, Here is another photo from the Huntington Library collection showing the lone SP F-70-1 # 49679 flat with load more clearly. https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/30649/r

Thank you Bruce, for filling in fantastic extra info. That shows car 43386, the other car listed in the 7-37 ORER, note PPP as exceptions in the 43191 to 43690 series F-50-12 cars with greater capacit

Richard Brennan wrote: Photo on 4-8-1937 as SP 43595 https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/30745/rec/693 Two days later, 4-10-1937, with SAME load... as SP 49679 https://hdl.hun

Oops, listing for one 70t car, 49679, listed in the 7-39 ORER. In the 7-37 ORER, 49679 is listed as a 50t F-50-14 car, the last in that # series. Dan Smith

There are no 70t, 1400000 lbs capacity flats listed in either the 7-37 or 7-39 ORER's for SP. Tony may need to chime in here but I think SP got it's first 70T flats in 1940, if memory serves and I don

From the 7-37 ORER FM flat all steel 43191 to 43690 100000 lbs. capacity 497 cars note PPP 120000 lbs. capacity 2 cars 43386 43595 There are 2 other notes listing changes in capacity - both from 80000

Garth Groff posted a link to the shapeways helium car in post # 153917 on 11/29/17. Looked at it back then, price was lower, and I was hoping someone would comment on the quality of the print. If as T

The 70t Barber Stabilized S-2-A truck has been done by Moloco recently and previously by Red Caboose for their SP F-70-7 flatcar. They are both very similar with each having pluses and minuses. The RC

Good lighting on this view of Duryea under frame. Dan Smith

Bill, Thanks for the video link, starting at 17 37 a GN plywood car rolls by in the orange scheme. Jumped out at me. Lots of other standout cars right in my time period. As rob says, worth study. Dan

This car looks to be a DD car, see door tracks. My surmise would be that it is a chain tube. Dan Smith

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 06:54 PM, Bob Chaparro wrote: ( snip ) Photos: PFE 36624 (R-40-2) Undated photos from the Library of Congress, probably from the early 1940s: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/

Speaking of T-M and Silvergate convention https://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-scale-Trains-Miniature-SIlver-Gate-Convention-box-car-Vintage/303600036332?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D2%26asc%3

Thank you, Brian, It's wonderful to have that aha moment. Now I have better understanding of these trucks. Spent the night last night going over prototype photos of cars with National trucks. I will b

Eastman 910 Dan Smith

Tim, Super glue, CA, was invented, accidentally, in WW2 as part of a project to develop clear plastic gunsights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Coover Dan Smith

Tony Thompson wrote; This results from excessive recycling of scrap styrene moldings DA did use regrind plastic when they did kits and parts. The brittleness runs across their parts line. The handbrak

Hello All, I seriously doubt that this gon was used in interchange. One thing that no one has pointed out, this gon does not comply with the safety appliance act. No ladders on right end and left end

Garth, These are the cars ( Shenandoah Valley MW boxcar ) that were out in Inyokern. 3 of them. I took quite a few slides and prints of them but would need to dig them out and scan them. One had burne