Sometimes progress is agonizingly slow, sometimes happens at warp speed. I found a reference library that had the 1931 Car Builders Cyclopedia, they copied the pic in question, and I have it in hand n

Richard, Tim, Mitchell, all of the rest of you - THANKS!! You are a wealth of information found nowhere else and have shared it freely! Perhaps I can return the favor sometime in the future. Bob Kutel

A friend of mine used this process for producing a fairly elaborate truck sideframe for a single truck trolley in 1:24. He made VERY detailed cadd files himself using AUTOCAD and then I believe he con

Thank you Richard and Tim. As I said, I built a kit and apparently have been DUPED by mfr and vendor info. I have long been more in the class of a proto foamer in my modeling efforts and this project

Tim, thank you very much for the reply. I received a nice kit as a gift from my son and built it during convalescence. Now I am beginning to think I have been victimized by vendor statements that GN h

I have had some 'downtime' recently but now am involved with a project trying to find photos of Great Northern 40 foot flatcars. I just spent a fair amount of time prowling the web but clearly my sear

back(both The cars 50's, being contact Related topic is Rock Island insulated boxcars. They look like a wood sided reefer without ice hatches so a quick drive by might mistake them for a reefer. One o

1937, number 99138. It appears from other research to be part of series 99106-99148. It lists SW CO as the location where the safety valves were tested, and, apparently, where the car was built. A sho

As much as we would like there to one color for any particular railroad or scheme, the evidence points to the opposite. There are several similar reefers at IRM that were assigned to MILW - which most

not Of course you did not. But since so many comments on this thread refer to cost control and economies, let's look at the market and what it says. It seems to me modelers are willing to pay premium

gallon cars seem to have shared a common underframe while the 6500 gallon car was "shorter" (truck centers closer together.) So the tank diameter for the 8000 gallon car was less than the 10000 gallon

The Illinois Railway Museum is beginning serious restoration efforts on CB&Q wood caboose 14073. Fundraising is in progress and any tips or research leads for paint colors, lettering schemes, etc woul

trucks the Two things that come to mind are archbar trucks and K brakes. I do not have a date but early 1950's seems about when cars so equipped were no longer allowed in interchange service. Earlier

Clark, Please copntact me off list with your name and address and I will see about dipping an index card into our color matched enamel, in order to make a sample for you. The old maroon on the car is

car like I believe the car was built in 1930 by the Standard Steel Car Co - neat for what is basically a wood sided car. It was just about the time Pullman bought Standard and subsequently became know

More Museum musings - we restored our MILW caboose at IRM a few years back and in the process documented the work in part with very detailed drawings prepared using a Cadd software. So we have good in

If you are modeling CGW paint schemes there is probably no way to make everybody (anybody) happy. We are restoring a CGW caboose at Illinois Railway Museum (yes, a steam era freight car) and are using

Ed, For the most part, our models do not represent the brake piping badly. Some of you might know that I am Collection Curator of Freight Equipment at the Illinois Railway Museum, so I have the advant

Ed, From a prototype standpoint they never used any type of flexible tubing or copper. Rules specified heavy duty schedule 80 iron pipe and only approved fittings were allowed to be used. These might