Hello, I am currently improving and correcting the detailing on a set of ACCURAIL "Bettendorf" trucks. I would like to replace the brake system details cast into the sideframes with KADEE "brake pads"

Andy Sperandeo wrote: Andy, I have # 58 couplers without "The Gap", but have the # 78 couplers too been changed to the new design without gap? Andreas Kuehnpast

Justin Kahn wrote: Jace, thanks for your explanations, they help me get the complete picture! Discussions like this are what make this group so wonderful! I have contacted the Vermont wine bottler, wh

raildata@... wrote: I have found out that a former customer of "my shortline", Vermont's Barre & Chelsea, was also involved in a similar kind of activity: Calmont Beverage Co. in Barre, VT started

Charlie, Which NH flat car will you be modeling? Thanks! Andreas Kuehnpast (Looking for a kit for the NH 35' 6" flat cars built by PRESSED STEEL in 1902/1903...)

Anthony Thompson wrote: Tim Gilbert wrote: So, Tim, just how do you think "Worcester" is pronounced in its homeland? Tony, My boss is from Worcester (the one in England) and he insists that it is pron

Don Valentine wrote: Don, I agree: Milwaukee's single sheated box cars were often seen in northern New England in the late 1940s. At least me research on freight cars running on Vermont's Barre & Chel

Earl, Imagine my surprise when only some days after I wrote the email attached below, I got the new Newsletter of the Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society and the Modelers Notes # 90 included in

Co-Moderator Earl Tuson asked: Earl, Underframes and ends of the cars you are interested in were built by International Steel Co. in 1954. According to my source (A copy of a MEC Freight Car Classbook

Anthony Thompson wrote: Tony, what would be the differences between the F-70-7 and the F-70-6? I know that the dimensions of the two cars (at least as listed in ORERs) are identical, but do not know t

I have some Jim Shaughnessy photos from June 6, 1955 that show SP F-70-6 # 80471 on Millstone Hill near Barre, VT. The car carries a load of granite blocks. As the load is properly braced, it will mov

Schuyler G Larrabee wrote: Will the REBOXX couplers work as the KADEEs do, with under-track magnets uncoupling them? Will they too have these ugly - but necessary - pins? Will they have centering spri

cn528 wrote: Jon, you might try to obtain any remaining TSC booklets from the brother (IIRC) of the original publisher, Charles S. Gregg. His email address is: RRHistory@... I have a "1999 - 2000

The company RailDriver is currently starting with the reproduction of some vintage railroad cyclopedias on CD-ROMs. The first CD available contains the complete "1922 Locomotive Cyclopedia of American

Jack Wyatt wrote: I visit this shop whenever I visit my parents (The shop is just 15 miles from where my parents live...) It is one of the best shops for american model railroad stuff here in Germany

Tony Thompson wrote: Thanks Tony for directing me to some possible sources of vintage railroad technology magazines! Does someone on this list have names of persons I can contact at these libraries (p

I had asked for CAR BUILDERS' DICTIONARY content of two cars: To this David Thompson replied: David, thanks for the input! While Barre RR # 301 was indeed built by the MICHIGAN PENINSULAR CAR CO., H&W

In 1898/1899 two nearly identical well hole flat cars were constructed: Barre Railroad # 301 (leased to Barre Granite Transit Co.) and Hardwick & Woodbury # 10. These two cars obviously were the first

Garth G. Groff wrote: Garth, I know that one car from the B&C flat car series # 339 - 388 has been preserved by a former B&C costumer (Rouleau Granite). The car was rebuilt and finished with the (wron

Thanks to all the STMFC listers who have sent me informations on Barre & Chelsea's steel flat cars # 400 - 404! Apparently only one car from this mini-series ever made it to the ORER: # 402. This car