I think shiplap more common, and joint tightness is a function of drying shrinkage, so that wide joints when dry , eventually swelling shut tight, after water leaks thru, thus shiplap better than T&G

re the thread on wood siding: In 1973 I was riding a freight train which stopped next to a NP war emergency box car on the adjacent track- the board joints on this car were so tight it was virtually i

On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 11:43:20 -0400 "Garth G. Groff" <ggg9y@...> writes: But as poor as the photo reproduction was in Princes original books, it's worse in the reprints. Too bad they didn't go to fresh

AND another thing The first SS cars were apparently by Seley for the N&W, CRIP and C&EI, predating the Fowler cars. The Fowler patent had to do with keeping the side boards tight, and are the more wel

On my recent West Coast swing to speak at Monrovia and Pleasanton, I stopped along the coast one morning just North of San Simeon. The attraction was a colony of Elephant seals, and as I watched, an o

2nd, Jeff; I'm 28. (The standard joke when I was in Houston with the local S scale group was that I cut the average age by half. I think the next youngest was about my father's age.) Geez, I shaved to

Ben Hom intones Now, now. How do you know new vesties aren't being born at this very minute, ready to fill in the ranks of the dearly departed? I for one am happy to hear that a prototype modeler is i

Warren, I think you will find that Iowa is still the number 1 pork producer in this country with North Carolina running a close second. And if you want to see a stock yard. Look up the Omaha Stockyard

I made a spread sheet of damage claim reports from out of the MILW depot in Mason City IA for the years 54,55,56. One report was for a load canned pork shipped in ARLX 196 from the Decker plant (Armou

Brothers, Please forgive the cross-posting, but I wanted to try and get the biggest audience possible. I need cash and want to sell my B&O Steam Finale I and II by Mellander for sale. The dust jackets

Take at look at this photo on Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1131941604 Is that a Caswell Gon in the lower righthand corner? Potash maybe? Jack

From deep in my files, here's an excerpt from one of my postings to the Freight Car List over four years ago on riveters: "Source 1: Carl Traub's article in the June 1968 MODEL RAILROADER on construct

<<I found five meat packing plants in the south in 1938: Armour & Company, Tifton [I think] Georgia, packed Pork. They were on the Southern, I think. Cudahy Packing in Albany, Georgia, with an annual

I would like to continue the thread about meat and livestock transport as it applies to the SE USA. William Griffin in his book: SEABOARD:THE ROUTE OF COURTEOUS SERVICE has a photo of a solid train of

Richard, Since you model The SAL in 1944 I'd appreciate it if you would contact me of line. I also model 1944, but am more oriented towards the movement of material for the war industries around the e

Guys, A few days ago we talked briefly about rivets on models. I heard a few very interesting comments that need clarification. I'm wanting to build HO models of Seaboard Air Line high- and low-side g

--- ThisIsR@... wrote: I found five meat packing plants in the south in 1938: Armour & Company, Tifton [I think] Georgia, packed Pork. They were on the Southern, I think. Cudahy Packing in Albany, Geo

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Tom Gloger <tomgloger@...> writes: I don't think that weather tightness was ever a factor in what we see as wood roofs on freight cars. Wood roofs were actually

I thought I would fill folks in on the latest sighting and purchases of photos of Col. Chet McCoy from Bob's this past weekend. I did purchase only some sixty odd this time, versus ninety odd in Janua

I'm into a "warm day in June, 1944 on the PRR". Interestingly, some wonderful data exists to build appropriate car fleets. I just purchased some back issues of the PRRT&HS mag the Keystone that are be