Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /UP Freight Diagrams 1941.xls Uploaded by : Dick.Harley@... Descr

In a message dated 12/12/00 3:21:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, jaley@... writes: > For example, I recently learned that I need to ship sulfuric acid to > a corn mill (acid was used to produce corn oil)

In a message dated 12/12/00 5:58:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, rhendrickson@... writes: > I did. So did I. ....Mike

Dave Nelson wrote, in response to Jeff Aley, >> For example, I recently learned that I need to ship sulfuric acid to >> a corn mill (acid was used to produce corn oil). What kind of car do >> I use (a

Guys, There have been several messages regarding the objectives, reasons for initiating and methodology of the Steam Era Freight Car Group including its relation to the current FCL. A few answers are

Attention! Achtung! Attencion! The STMFC is pleased to announce that Byron Rose will be returning to active participation by joining the STMFC. Although Byron indicates he is going to do it on a trial

Title sez it all. ----------------------------------- Dave Nelson

John's excellent post brings up several points. First, despite my flip sig yesterday about cutting things off at the McGinnis interface (which would leave Garth on the outside looking in), I think it'

One good reason to use a circa-1960 cutoff is that the world of freight cars changed GREATLY around that time: gigantic tank cars, 60-ft. box cars, 85-ft. pig flats, Center Flow covered hoppers, etc.,

If those stuck in '47 are beyond hope I wonder where that puts me! <G>. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax DCC owner, Chief system NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS

That thing is so far out of date I'd just as soon it be permitted to die a quiet death. It also led indirectly to my departure from the FCL three or four years ago, when as the resident casting guru I

Jon Miller writes: > Might be a good time for Mike to state whether Way cars, er Cabooses, > are within our freight car topics. Also are we going to include Drover > cars? Some heavy questions for the

I know we're just getting started, but I hope (as Dick Harley implied) that we can eliminate very general, generic modeling questions and try to stick to the relevant matter of freight cars. The discu

Mike Brock wrote, in part: > ...secrecy is not a need...at least as far as I'm > concerned. This group is likewise not meant to > insult or demean the FCL in any way. Mike, and List: I hesitated a gre

Since I'm not sure if this list is being kept secret from the FCL, but I thought both lists would find this info of interest, here's a "blind copy" of my response to an inquiry prompted by an earlier

Jeff, In further contemplating the UOCX car you identified as being on the Rutland, I realized that you found it in So I'm not so surprised, after all. That was a period when there was still a despara

Gee, Tim, sorry I spoke. I was responding to a question about GLUE, if you perhaps recall. But I will in future try hard never to answer any question which may have been answered previously. Tony Thom

Now that the door is open a crack on express reefers, I should draw folks attention to Sylvan's relatively new CN 10000-10099 express reefer kit in HO scale. I'm told these wood-sheathed cars were com

Come on, Byron, you ought to know that D couplers used a 13 3/8" long, 1 5/8" diameter pin, drilled for a 3/8" X 2 1/2" cotter. Geez, I thought everybody knew THAT one. Now, can anyone help me with th

Does anybody known anything about Tichys latest offering, an injection molded (or moulded for our friends north of the border) kit for a war emergency gondola? I just received notification of its fort