CNW 5916 was converted to wet pulp service from CNW 61528 on October 25, 1954. CNW 61528 shows as being built by CNW at Winona MN, June 23, 1927. The car was destroyed January 18, 1968. This from the

I don't know if there would be anything like those castings in this group. Lots of levers, brackets, tanks bands and the ever vague "steel details" to name a few. Some drawings do reference a builder'

I'll second the use of a DSLR for digitizing a book such as this. A simple copy stand and a 20+ MP DSLR can generally do well for most items up to 11x17 in size or so, depends on how fine the printing

While this topic is making dents in plastic car bodies, it is just one of the many methods to create a dented the gon. As Dave Allen eluded to, here is the How-To: http://www.yardoffice.com/RR/Modelin

If you are modeling this car 1954 and later it was rebuilt with some extra frame stiffening approximately between the pairs of trucks. In 1953 it suffered a frame failure. Photos are found in the Nort

Thanks for sharing this. A possible solution for those with trouble with XLSX files is to look into LibreOffice. https://www.libreoffice.org/ This programs opens seemingly everything, even some old Mi

To keep things unclear, here are some notes I have on lettering drawings. A drawing from Mar 1943 labeled for CMO 21400-22414 has a revision in 1956 noting ‘Lettering Chicago and North Western and Rou

I’m a little late to the discussion, since Yahoo seems to have lost my post attempt from 3 days ago… For the CNW cars, there are a number of dimensions that may or may not be useful on the car cards,

Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. Curious as to what the long rectangular hatch-like structures are for on the roofs of the stock cars in this pho

This is pushing the group time frame, but sometime between 1958 and 1963, there was a proposal by the CNW mechanical department to rebuild some of their war emergency boxcars into covered hoppers. To