Bill- The comperisons of inside folding stake pockets with Wine tie-down straps show that they are not very similar in appearance. They both are close to the same size, but are very much different. Th

From research done years ago I seem to remember these being supplied by the Wine company. 1/2" round bar bent into a loop and the distal ends were bent out to about a 30 degree angle which separated t

And that fuel terminal survives to at least 2 years ago when I visited the town. Tracks have been gone for quite a while, not going beyond the Sierra Pacific lumber mill which still feeds lumber by ra

Schuyler asked about the stock car kit Jim Hayes had partially assembled. It is a 55xxx series of GN, rebuilt from a box car, stock car done in 1958. These were the only 40' GN stock cars with steel d

Before his passing, Jim Hayes sent me a picture of a kit he purchased from me decades ago. It is a GN 1958 built stock car, rebuilt from GN's 31000 series of 40' Z-bar Pratt truss SS box cars. GN conv

Hello- I found the cover photo on Ted Cullota's "Focus on the Freight car, vol 10", of a 1936 photo of a West Coast gasoline company tank car very sentimental. My interest in this company relates to h

Thanks Dave and Steve. This info works very well for me. Another great example of the shared help available from this fine list. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

From Ted Cullota's series of books, "Focus on the Freight Car vol ten other freight car types" has some great photos of various tank cars pictured from the 1930s. One of particular interest to me is t

I found a method of glueing 0.005" styrene to a base styrene years ago which has stood the test of time. In pattern making, weakly attached laminations can often delaminate when pulling an RTV mold fr

2 Pullman standard doors in HO and one prototype photo. Kadee door from about 10 years ago Prototype PS-1 door Kurtz Kraft door (early 60s) -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Friday, February 5, 2021, 10:57:11

Bill- The time in the bar was explaining how to convert a Tahoe Model Works Dalmann 2-level with lateral motion device into an Andrews variation. Razor saw cuts, styrene strips, some NBW castings, som

Transferring to a narrow gauge flat car under wire--has to be an LARy (Los Angeles Railway-3'6" gauge) destined transformer..... On Friday, January 15, 2021, 10:03:34 AM PST, Bob Chaparro via groups.i

Tim, This was not my picture--I simply copied and cropped it from the earlier post, focusing more on the narrow gauge gondola(s). On Sunday, January 3, 2021, 7:51:48 AM PST, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@

For someone wishing to duplicate some elements of this scene in N scale, look at this one-piece narrow gauge high side gondola. My late friend made the pattern and I cast it it in resin. -Andy Carlson

The IMWX/Red Caboose '37 AAR kits came with both Superior and Youngstown doors. You do not need to look too closely to see that these YSDs do not match very well. Apparently the CNC machine's cutting

Good morning, everybody! 70-ton trucks. The EJ&E had some ASF A3 70-ton trucks with outside clast brakes on some cars. A survivor is at the Fillmore & Western RR in Ventura County, just a 100 miles or

Less than 10 years ago, the city of Fort Bragg California (Home to the "Skunk" California Western RR) replaced their last community redwood water pipes. These were rifle drilled logs with an iron wire

I have a memory which is a bit different than yours. Some importer had a batch of passenger cars made and the builder built the industry labeled"over runs" which were extra cars beyond the ordered num

My thoughts exactly! -Andy On Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 10:15:04 AM PST, jerryglow2 <jerryglow@...> wrote: Don't those laser cut interiors add to the side's thickness? This seems it would d

I have my list of the 4 best items to have blessed model freight car building as follows, in no particular order: 1) Evergreen styrene strips 2) Dial calipers 3) Resins, such as polyurethane 4) RPM me