Bob, Congrats on getting this far with the SSC drawings. I can sympathize with the effort involved. I'm currently scanning 30,000 8x10 builders photos negatives. It takes time. Based on the dozen SSC

OK - I tried to send an 11 mb attachment that was readable, however our group resized it to 225kb and made it mostly unreadable. Jason or Garth, If you need the readable version email me at mark_landg

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I looked around a little bit more and found a a gondola that was used by LCL corp. It doesn't appear to the exact car you are looking for but it may provide some guidance. It's a big drawing but I got

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Hi, LCL Corp 1956 inventory shows that there were 216 containers were owned by Carbide & Carbon Chemical and were in assigned service to Union Carbide for Calcium Carbide serve. I have drawings of som

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Rupert In the time frame you are referring, the federal rules changed to requiring steel frames under cabooses. Four wheel bosses almost always had wood frames and became illegal. The cause of the new

Doug thanks for the referral Mark

Richard Thank you for the referral. Mark

Hi A friend on a different group is looking for manufacturer drawings (like Bettendorf and ASF) for narrow gage cast trucks. These were used by a variety of NG rr's under more modern freight cars as w

Andy If you have a Deckel photograph available, wouldn't it have been easier to make the first generation master rib and then use it to panto all 5 ribs, using an offset method into a ABS sheet? I mod

Bob There were full size MCB couplers used on standard Gage equipment as well as 3/4 size that were popular with narrow Gage in intra-plant rr's. The full size MCB couplers were somewhat smaller than

You guys need to enlarge the image and actually read what the side of the car has stenciled on it. Then the whole donut vs police protecting their staple subsistence makes more sense. Mark Landgraf

After looking thru a bunch of freight guides, Milw had some very similar plows. These appear to have about a 6-7 foot front radius and about a 2-3 foot radius at the exit. Milw drawings are available

I was hoping somebody would say Milwaukee or Rock Island or MoPac or CNW. Mark

DeGolyer library at SMU, has the freight car drawings for all of the predecessor rr's of BN. They also have the Q locomotive steam drawings collection. Last I knew, none of this is cataloged, and they

Chris, Would you please contact me off list at mark_landgraf at yahoo dot com Yhanks Mark

I grew up in Buffalo and was aware of their operations in Ebenezer NY. During some recent research on Greenville Steel Car, it became apparent that Morrison used GSC to rebuild various batches of cars

Well on steam locomotive factory drawings the side walkways are referred to as Running Boards. In the era of boxcar with wooden roof walks, the factory drawings refer to them as Running Boards. Many f

Bob The St Louis Transportation Museum has most of the drawings. Some are cataloged and some aren't. Ed Hawkins (in this group) is a volunteer there. Ed maintains a large database of the drawings and

Bob It's so much fun to work with 100 year old paper. I've found that high humidity helps temporarily get rid of the brittleness in old paper prints. Steamtown uses a large steam box that they have. I

Dan I can sympathize with your efforts. I'm currently dealing with 75000 line spreadsheet dealing with Alco Photos. Additionally I'm dealing with 38,000 freight car images. Organization is important.