Some thoughts about Clover Leaf USRA hoppers I have always wanted to do a model of the Clover Leaf’s USRA hoppers. While the physical model is no problem-just a plain vanilla USRA twin hopper with the

Let me see if I understand this correctly. Secondhand tooling that wasn't all that great the first time,foobie paint schemes AND reserve now with delivery 9 months out? Now that's a business model...

Thank You!!! LRK

Dear group I am looking for a drawing I saw on line a while back. It is a cut away drawing of a truss rod meat reefer showing the wide variety of products such a car might be carrying -sides of meat ,

But these are not the 40 ft USRA clone gons-try 10214 which is GA for Lots 548-G and573-G. These are typical for the 4 drop door version of the late 20's.N-38833 is the brake arrangement for 548-G,amo

I totally agree about the NYC USRA clone steel gons.Maybe a candidate for 3D printing? Complete drawings are available from the NYCSHS. There was also a rebuilt version that lasted to the PC years tha

I tried to post the following on the Facebook group but could not make it work: This box car is a 1914 NYC Lines standard of which 7405 were built.It is similar to the 1912 design of which 16000 were

Thank You!!! Larry King

Great picture, what else is in it? i.e.the car next to the NYC car and the locomotive with the nice striping Larry King

Here's another repair steel underframe-this one from the D&H which was known for their equipment engineering expertise Larry King

Can someone provide a good contact for both DA and DW? Larry King

Is it possible that any of the LS&I 5000-5100 cars still exist? Larry King

I will still say that based on rivet patterns and end sill as well as trucks this is a NYCL 208-F. If it has now LS&I ownership it probably was sold secondhand by NYC. I admit it is possible it was a

Here's the Railway Age Gazette vol.88 article about the NYC Lines repair steel underframe ca.1912. There were other variations also- some had a different bolster construction, some only had the top co

Those Rock Island photos are just about exactly the same as what the NYC did. I wish I could find photos of the NYC cars that are that good! Larry King

This car is a NYCL Lot 208-F built 1907 by ACF. The lettering does not look to be NYC though. I know some of the were sold to logger RR's. These cars are of special interest to me. Are there any other

Does the absence of head blocks imply that this car had been refitted with a center anchor tank attachment? Larry King

New York Central Lines was a pioneer in the reinforcement of wood cars-they called the steel assembly of steel center sills (with cover plates sometimes top and bottom sometimes only top) steel bolste

New York Despatch was a reefer line operated by the Grand Trunk Railway dating from before they were taken over by Canadian National in the 1920's (1923 as I recall) The GT lines west of the internati

That series of GTW reefer was built in 1937 as NYDX 8000-99 They were lettered GTW starting in the 1940's. As stated above, some lasted to the early 70's RMC and Mainline Modeler had articles and plan