Ed mines wrote: >Chuck was a career man with IBM, in the personnel department I believe. He grew up in Scranton, PA and was a railfan when steam was replaced by diesel. Avid modeler too. >We always ho

Folks, The D&H originally bought 6000 Seley hoppers from ACF in 1906-7. They came in twin, triple and quad configurations. When delivered, they looked like hopper-bottom gons, but in the mid 1920's th

Folks, Many years ago a wise "O" Scaler, the late Bob Sypher educated me about using paint from sources other than those made for RR models. Bob was a product of the early 1950's, and about all that w

Jon Miller wrote: advertising with modelers paint but I forget the last time I saw it. John, So did I. There might be a tiny kernel of truth about the particulate size of pigments in some paints for m

I had heard somewhere along the line that the actual product that was packed by Bob and re-labeled as "Scalecoat I" was originally developed by Dupont for the US Navy. Jon Miller wrote: Oooh, without

Group, I'm building a D&H steel caboose in P48. The trucks on the car are Barber Bettendorf swing motion type. Visually, they appear to have 36" 1W wheels, rather than the traditional 33" 1W. Does any

Matt Keoughan asked: Matt, There is no "drop in" flat panel roof available for the "O" Scale I/M '37 AAR. Only two roofs were made by the Mfg.; Viking, and Murphy raised panel. You basically have two

Ben Hom wrote: Ben, Sent you a .pdf of the D&H ORER Jan '51, off line, as well as a .pdf from '52 (month unknown) Matt Forsyth Forsyth Rail Services Modeling the D&H Penn Division/ Erie Jefferson Divi

Schuyler, As ROGER HINMAN stated... Keep in mind that those roofs are somewhat unique, in that they are similar to a Murphy raised panel roof, but there are two, narrow raised panels per section, and

Bill Welch wrote: Bill, There are really four versions of the Erie "diamond" monogram (and a one-off or two). The monogram was created to be representative of "the four corners of the Earth", with the

Joel Holmes wrote: Joel, The correct address for TMR is: http://www.canadasouthern.com/tmr/CDS.htm I count three available CDS sets for steam-era freight cars, and the twin hopper is one of them. Matt

Jared Harper wrote: Jared, I too am a straight MEK devotee'. Works da' Bomb!!! Would not consider using anything else. I had an "in" with a pharma supplier in Upstate NY, that allowed me to obtain rea

Jack Burgess wrote: Group, Jack is TOTALLY spot-on here. There has been some recent discussion about the new MicroMark rivets, and their very reasonable pricing. I do a lot of scratch and custom build

Ned Carey wrote: Ned, Are you referring to the three panel reverse Hutchins end, or the reinforced Burnett end? I have several shots on my website (all images in the public domain). Here's a link to a

A. Premo wrote: Correct. The D&H took delivery of 1000 USRA twin, and in the mid '30's rebuilt 302 of them with panel sides. In fact, some were even equipped with an expanded panel end and integrated

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard, I suppose that anything is possible in the composition of the LRX fleet, especially after transferring the cars to MDT, but here's a builder's shot of DL&W #7000, t

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard, I might be mistaken, but LRX 7218 is one of a group of original DL&W reefers, 7000-7299, built ACF, 1925. They were white with black hardware when built, lettered D

Group, A few days ago, a thread discussed the DL&W's "LRX" reporting marks. Took me some time, but I just got an image of LRX 7218 scanned, and posted to my website. I would have attempted to load it

Larry Sexton wrote: Larry, Appreciate the additional data; you might be right. Went back through my matertials, and found a bit more info. This was written in as additional notes in the '49 freight ca

Larry Sexton wrote: Larry, Your info on these cars is quite correct, except (according to my data) the number series for the round, air activated, cement canisters cars is 15950-15969; a total of 20 c