One of the greatest dis-incentives I've heard of was the various railroads' reluctance to spend the premium to equip interchange equipment with roller bearings. The thought there being that the invest

The fella in the door of the car is holding a scoop. That suggests the contents of the car are loose, hence the dump cart and scale. This was still the era of manual unloading for bulk products shippe

All that roof and they still stuck the cupola at the very end. -Jeff Ford Sanger, TX

Jacob, Good to see the web site up and glad to hear of a positive reception. I can remember tossing around the idea with Ryan Harris on more than one occasion over the past several years. Glad others

Is it Schrodinger's car. Unprototypical and aprototypical at the same time? $0.02, -Jeff Ford Sanger, Texas P.S. I recall much enjoyment of railroading with egregiously inaccurate rolling stock as a k

Agreed on the similarities to Helium tank cars. I can't help but wonder if the government didn't look to the Pintsch cars for inspiration. Speaking of the three-tank helium cars, I'd like to find draw

Bill, Microscale did sets to letter the City Classics HO gas station kit. The Flying A set is 87-874 and the Gulf set is 87-902. Happy hunting. -Jeff Ford Sanger, TX

Corey, That second truck looks more like it. from the looks of it, an Andrews truck wouldn't be hard to replicate. I, for one, find the detail adequate. Here's a photo from March, 1943 showing the And

Dennis, Helium tank cars are another example. They tip the scales at 100 tons, empty. Not only did the early cars have clasp brake rigging, they had two complete air brakes systems - one for each truc

Corey, Nice work on those trucks. I wonder how much additional work would be involved in tweaking them to replicate the trucks used under the helium cars. Attached is Jay Miller's handout that has vie

Autocomplete strikes again: Delrin -JDF

Dave and Richard, The familiar US Navy Helium tank cars rode on 100-ton trucks. The earliest versions were Andrews. There's a decent photo in the FSA/OWI collection at loc.gov. https://www.loc.gov/res

Thanks fellas. I was puzzled by the spelling; no wonder I couldn't find anything. In my defense, the original document from the Bureau of Mines spelled it "Dauphin." Which causes me to wonder which wa

Group, From the "Needle in a Haystack" Department: Has anyone ever heard of Dauphin trucks? Are any photos available? I get the impression that they may be for heavy duty service. To clarify, they are