Thanks for all the replies. I'll make another run at drawing all this up and see if I can get to a acceptable result. Can't believe I didn't do a patent search as I've done that on several past projec

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Hi Garth, thanks for the reply. As I mentioned in my post, I've been working from the ORER data and having a time trying to get it to look right - mostly the containers. None of the ORER data gives me

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Does anyone have any info they could share about these container gondolas? I'm trying to make a drawing of the containers anf gondolas working off pictures and the ORER dimensions on the gondola serie

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I've transcribed 10,000 car movements from 1960's train list for the Chicago Great Western and the home road cars only made up 10% of the total. Along with that, in the top 10 were Canadian Pacific an

Hello group, I'm trying to build a kit for an N scale ACF 19,000 tank car and I have the GA drawing, but the drawing I have shows a horizontal brake wheel and the model I want to produce has a vertica

Thank you for the follow up Steve, I will add those drawing numbers to my inquiry. I would certainly be interested in the end drawings but I do have the drawings for the 40' car like what Rocket Expre

Thank you for the reply Ed. I was actually just about to contact the Pullman Library on another matter so I'll add this inquiry. To maybe be more specific, I'm looking at the cars that went to the DCI

Hello group, Would anyone here know of a resource that would show the underframe for a Rock Island 50' outside braced auto box car like the one at IRM #264070? I should have taken pictures when I was

Thank you Eric, 9-44 should be what I need. Jason

Hello group, I'm hoping someone can help me with the build date for Chicago Great Western box cars 91000-91099, PS lot 5771. The year should be 1944 and I think the month is Aug. (8), but I don't know

Here are the track specs. Notice they are for UP and BNSF. https://www.up.com/customers/ind-dev/operations/specs/track/ The section of track is called a turnout. The switch is the movable part of the

This is a bit out of the time period of this group, but uses actual train lists. I transcribed 10,000 car movements on the Chicago Great Western's Southern district (Oelwein/Des Moines/Kansas City) fo

From the SCL, B&O and Keystone modelers PDF on FGEX/WFEX/BREX cars. "Cars with FDEX reporting marks appear by this time. The cars are stenciled "Double Deck" on the car sides and havedouble decks perm

As a side bar, the under frame from caboose 354 was used for transfer caboose 176. http://freight.railfan.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=cgw176&o=cgw Jason

January 1960 Model Railroader has a drawing of 357. Jason

Caboose Nos. 350-365 we ex-DM&N purchased from the D&IR by the CGW around 1930. Not a ton of pictures exist of all the cars to know how many were modified but besides 355, caboose 354 also lost it's c

Hi Ed, thanks for the response. Yes, that's the car. With some help via e-mail we figured out the marks were for Peoples' Gas Light & Coke Co. but like you, can't find much about it (railroad-wise) wh

Hello group, I have a drawing for a Pullman Standard 50' gondola used by the CGW and KCS but also listed on the sheet are 3 cars for the P.G.L & C. Co. I've been looking for what this could be and hav

Those are awesome Pete. Thanks you for posting them. Jason Kliewer Colorado Springs, CO

First of all I know this is a total shot in the dark, but I'm looking for the leasee of GATX car nos 81949 or 81950. My train list show these cars on different days getting shipped from my modeled tow