In 1931, the Great Northern had a substantial fleet of 27,642 box cars. A majority portion of these cars had similar dimensions , reported at 40' or 40'1" IL, 8'7" IW, and 7'9" to -10" IH. These cars

Just a note from Brian Pate, who has been making HO resin kits for a few years, mostly of Canadian prototypes. But he does make the only kit that I know of for a wood sheathed Northern Pacific refrige

STMFC Members, Regarding the change to Yahoo, you don't need to do anything to continue to receive messages. However, if you wish to use the Yahoo Groups web site you have to acquire a Yahoo ID. I hav

>>Don't I know it! BTW, I find MacinTax to be very helpful this time of year >>(as I'm sure is TurboTax, the PC version)...it interfaces directly with >>Quicken, and even though my taxes are not serio

Doing a tiny bit of research on coal dispersal, I find this from Louisville & Nashville Railroad The Old Reliable by Castner, Flanary and Dorin. I've met Castner before and he's quite creditable. Refe

Photos available. Well, actually, they're prototype photos... http://www.rocousa.com/marklin/new2001/044.jpg http://www.rocousa.com/marklin/new2001/045.jpg It looks like the hoppers are H-70-1's; I ca

Tim O'Connor writes: > Yikes! If you read the small lettering, the hoppers are H-70-1's and the > caboose is a CA-3/CA-4. Holy Cow!! I've wanted these hoppers for years > and now they're coming from E

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I just bought a pair of Tichy 10,000 gallon tank car kits [USRA-ARA class III] Mentioned of the instruction sheet is fact that while the earlier cars were built with Andrews trucks, later ones had Bet

I've bitten the bullet and STARTED writing up a synopsis of freight car paint schemes at: http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/rolling-stock/Freight-Car-Paint-Sch emes.html I have a LOT to go, but

Steam Listers, I have in my possession a copy of "Freight Car Journal No. 63: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway". It's a great reference work, a decent substitute for the lack of the horizont

Regarding per centages of home cars on home rails, I believe that Dave Nelson provided us with some '44 [?] data about this some time ago. I know I have it somewhere. Anyhow, I believe that for UP, fo

M.D. McCarter has a couple of photos of B&O milk cars from the series 824-850, which were standard ice bunker reefers. He took the photos in '48, but the latest equipment register I have for passenger

Dave and others, I have a copy of Ron Glas's 1990 compilation of available Copeland resources located at NWU. I'd be happy to quote from it, but it would better to find Ron and get permission for me t

Bill, if you get this, you are alive and well on the STMFC. Let me know. To start sending messages to members of this group, simply send email to STMFC@... If you do not wish to belong to STMFC, you m

One of our members is assembling a bunch of the Stewart channel side hoppers, and wanted to know what trucks to use. I found one picture where I think the car had Andrews, but it isn't clear, and one

Having had the topic of home vs. foreign cars come up again I decided to crunch a few numbers & see whether the data from my conductors books was in any way similar to an ORER from about the same time

Howdy, According to Greg Martin's Scuttlebutt collumn in the January Mainline Modeler, Microscale has announced set 87-986, assorted 1910-1950 tank cars. Any comments from y'all on the suitability of

In a message dated 2/3/01 12:41:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, RRrealated@... writes: > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:31:54 EST > From: privatevarnish@... > Subject: Car and Loco Builders Cyclopedias For Sal

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