=========================== Didn't the WM and NW have lots of fishbellies and they were soft coal roads? Dave H.

========================== The Pennsy shipped both hard and soft coal and used the same fleet of hoppers to ship both kinds of coal. The pictures of the hard coal mines in Shamokin show H21 hoppers by

and ======================== You can add Galveston, TX. Dave H.

A question for the very start of the STMFC era. In White's "American Railroad Freight Car" on page 276 fig 4.37 and p277 fig 4.40 there are pictures of Tiffany Reefers. Does anybody have any informati

<schuyler.larrabee@v...> wrote: a photo of the car in question, right size, and glue it onto a manufacturers, screw on a coupla trucks, ========================= Actually it is already being done. Sev

<schuyler.larrabee@v...> wrote: is absorbed by the individual help deal with it. ======================= Aren't 86' boxcars welded though? I would think that the reason was stamping a small piece of m

In my ======================= Is any one person obligated, no. Is the list obligated, yes. The basic purpose of the list is to share information. If someone asks a question and those who know don't an

================================= Either pulpwood or ties (or possibly pulpwood and then relegated to ties). Note the black staining inside the car, I'm thinking creosote. Dave H.

were RRs ======================== There are the AAR alpha car codes (XM). There are AAR alpha numeric UMLER car codes (B313). There are railroad mechanical codes (which are RR specific) (B50-10). Ther

======================= Boxcars (grain, bottles, beer) Plug door boxcars (beer) Insulated boxcars (beer) Reefers (beer) Hopper or gon (coal, broken bottles) ====================== ====================

used) ============================= You can make Excel function almost like a database by writing VBA macros behind the spreadsheet. Having said that, it is way easier to just use a database and do it

least where I can get alphabets in different fonts? ============================ While waiting for my wife to finish pouring over all the junk, err antiques at a local antique mall, I found a rack of

manufacturer? =========================== There were brass ones made back in the 60's or 70's. I have also seen MP54's made from Walthers stamped tin side passenger cars. When you rode them you knew y

I guess the companion question is when did the railroads start using poling pockets? I am building some TOC cars and I have noticed the 1890's cars generally do not have poling pockets, but some of th

<schuyler.larrabee@v...> wrote: ====================== Year or edition? Dave H.

======================== I believe the two hobbies approach things from opposite ends. From what aI have seen the military modeler tends to build the scene around and for a specific model, the model i

I aplogize if this has been covered recently, but I haven't been able to find anything in an archive search. I have recently acquired an older Westerfield kit and the car ends are slightly warped. The

===================== What did a gon of pig iron look like? Were the pigs stacked? Were they just dumped in? Was there blocking to keep the pigs from sliding around? Dave H.

to be is location? ==================== Milepost 32.2 on the Main Line of the Reading Co., just west of Reading. The Belt Line crossed to the South side of the Schuylkill River and went on the south b