Note that coupled to the right of WP 8078 is another 8051 series car. These cars were somewhat unique in that the lumber door was located in the 'B' end. The vertical shaft brake allowed plenty of roo

I will take it Smithal9@... Al Smith Sonora CA On Saturday, November 21, 2020, 03:45:37 PM PST, Hugh Guillaume via groups.io <mguill1224@...> wrote: F/S: one copy January 1956 Official Railway Equipme

Hello Tom. The D&RGW 3000 series ng boxcars only had metal parts in the body bolsters and roof carlines (not all roofs). No metal sills or sill reinforcements that I have heard of. All sills were wood

All- Does anyone have any experience with slide and negative scanners? My all-in-one copiers can do a decent job of digitizing photo prints but, even though a couple of them have slide processing capa

Group, I was looking at Ray Breyer's discussion of the Accurail 1800 series boxcar and kitbash posiblities for the D&H 36' DS boxcar. I would like to find more information on the "indestructible end"

Hi there - Needing some help with ORERs around 1946 for this model. Working on a kit and started to work with the decals. I had three cars in various stages and had put the decals in a safe place - bu

http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/03/carrying-automobiles-in-boxcars.html reposted from s-scale@groups.io courtesy of rich gajnak ;-) mel perry

Photo: Wabash Boxcar 7702 (1957) A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/67226/rec/34 Click on the arrows in the upper right hand c

Bought too many of the wrongs kinds of cars when I began my own, personal "Reefer Madness." Five kits available: Kit 1224 SOO Car# 50083 1201 URTX/Milwaukee 87018 1218 URTX/Milwaukee 87292 1319 Wiscon

Photo: WFEX Reefer 67899(1951) A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/55050/rec/124 Click on the arrows in the upper right hand co

Hi Craig, Attaching a couple of photos of the first version of the Hutchin ends for the Accurail kitbash. Here are the issues I see: - printed flat, the overall surface is good until one looks at the

Elden, I have a copy in hand as I type. In the middle 1960s, SP issued a series of "Freight Car Specification Sheets" for all car types, 25 in all, and over time some of the sheets received supplement

Group; Then there are the well cars with no floor, like the FN. Here is Jack Consoli’s fabulous rendition (featured in TKM) in which the load is both suspended and distributed to side sills and ends,

Group; I thought maybe one or two of you would be interested in this murky subject: There are at least several kinds of well cars, interestingly not separated in the AAR classification, which just lum

Group; This is the BM car in question, as the F&C kit. It is a really different, fun build. And this beast. Not everyone knows, the FD2 “Queen Mary” was one of the biggest flat cars (depressed center)

Charlie, I purchased an Epson V800 and am very pleased with it for transparencies as it will scan large format negatives as well as slides. It connects via USB and is Twain compliant for importing dir

Hi, Ben Dibble is a friend of mine, not a denizen of this list. But he’s quite willing to share his collection of photos of the subject cars. You can contact Ben directly if you want. His email in inc

Group; How about this combo of well car AND depressed center flat? It used a GSC casting to combine load-bearing well floor with depressed well, to boot. Load distributed on end decks and side sills.

Photo: CGTX 8654 Tallow Tank Car A partial photo of this tank car courtesy of the Old Time Trains website: http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_rolling/tallow_tank.jpg This was taken in Au

Then there are these guys. I DARE you to build one. (The F&C kit is a great start). Prepare for some interesting fabrications! PRR took a handful of regular F25, and took the floor out and replaced it