Back in 1973, I was riding on a GTW caboose at Detroit MI. We stopped next to a NP War Emergency single sheath box car on the adjacent track (normal double track spacing) From that distance I was unab

There WERE geared handbrakes that employed a gearbox at the bottom of a vertical shaft/horizontal wheel arrangement.This was especially true in the late 20's and early 30's.Probably there people in th

Just wanted to say I agree with the others- the car looks fine. Why not put a repainted patch and new weight and date?. That would provide a bit of contrast. Larry King

try the site "hoseeker" they have a lot of old instruction sheets Larry King

I have a couple of tank car Q's I'd like to toss out... 1)UTLX had at least a few ACF high walkway tank cars,as shown by this photo from the Barringer collection.My question is this,did these cars sur

I think we all ought to think about what sort of businesses we support with our hobby dollars. Yes, the Chinese can make some nice models. But their predatory behavior, both in our hobby and in the la

I would like to have the list also Laurance King lrkdbn@...

I suspect this was in the Tri-State Tornado of Mar.18 1925. Note the damage to the shop buildings. Larry King

Here is a question that is total speculation- were any of these 36 ft NX reefers rebuilt out of ex PRR class RF cars? Larry King

Dear group I am looking for information on the underframe construction of the ART's post 1924 steel underframe 41' reefers Drawings, photos, wreck photos,etc would all be welcome. I do already have th

I can't seem to access this photo-am using Firefox on windows XP. Anyone have any ideas? Larry King

Was this car original to PGE, or was it secondhand? If so does anyone know where it came from? Larry King

I'm sorry I'm not set up to scan stuff so I can't send you a sketch,,but i would say to look at the picture I sent of the overturned Frisco hopper. Just above the truck you can see the horizontal leve

Here are a couple more watermarked images from the NYCSHS web site showing the setup of the brake lever and the way the train air pipe crossed at the A end of the car You can buy hi res images from th

On the original USRA hoppers the cyl. lever was at a 45 degree angle and then bent down parallel to the side of the ctr sill. It connected to a horizontal lever just inside the bolster. From there a r

I can't give you a "this is an exact match",but Model Railroad Hobbyist e-magazine has a reference publication on substitutes for Polly Scale from currently available acrylics like Vallejo. Also if yo

This is an interesting car. Originally from Lot 258-G 3100 cars built for Big Four, Michigan Central and CI&S (later NYC) by ACF 1910. They were the National Dump Car design with Caswell traveling sha

The NYC/Michigan Central box car is a "1910 standard" car;-,one of 16000 such built for the NYCL in that year. The fishbelly underframe with 10" side sills was one of three types of underframes used o

I believe Gregg's Train Shed #46 "Flats, Gons, Hoppers 1931" has this car. As I recall there were two orders of these cars built,one with KC brake(the Tichy car) and one with with KD brake. The drawin

You have a point, but I suspect there are a lot of engineering considerations involved in making a master for a one piece open top car that make it much different from making a one off model.Unless it