FYI - John ----- Original Message ----- From: <RnBHessing@...> To: <nehrij@...> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:00 PM Subject: Re: USRA Side Dump Hoppers > John, > > The NYS&W cars were used in r

At what time did the roofwalk extensions (the ones on the right as you approach the end of the car) become mandatory? The Cyc at home (1923, I think) shows them on box cars but not on stock cars. Mayb

Somewhere I read that, prior to WWII, the New Haven's boxcars were all 36-footers. But on page 24 of "An American Journey" (see http://www.hotboxpress.com for info about the book) is a photograph date

FYI - According to Symbols Of America, Austin and Reuben Hill moved from Maine to San Francisco in 1873. In 1882, the two brothers bought a specialty grocery store (Arabian Coffee & Spice Mills) where

I'm looking at a flyer from MDC on 6 versions of the express reefer in HO painted for GN. While I know (or think that I know) that the cars were somewhat similar, they did have a saddle-type freight c

I've been focusing my attention on current kits (http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/rolling-stock/Kits/Kit-Guide.html) , but the recent discussion about the Hills Bros. Train-Miniature box car m

About 50 years ago the Southern Railway made several thousand pulpwood cars from old boxcars, numbering them in their 126000-129547 series. The boxcar's roof, sides, and floor were removed. Steel side

One of our members just finished a Mather reefer and was surprised to find it came with a real wood running board, but plastic painted ice hatches. It looks funny, but on the other hand, I've never he

<P>Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:34:13 -0800 (PST)<BR>From: John Golden <GOLDEN1014@...><BR>Subject: Re: [STMFC] Southern Railway Pulpwood Cars<BR>To: STMFC@...<BR><BR>Hi Dick,</P> <P>I don't have any inf

The following photos of Morrell reefers all show the door hinges and latches painted the yellow-orange body color. The first 3 photos show black drip rails. The last 4 show drip rails painted body col

Hello: I just joined STMFC and I'm very interested in learning about the steam era. My main road of interest is Seaboard Air Line and by default other southeastern roads that would have interchanged w

I know I am going to regret this and will probably end up tossing it in my pile of things that I chop up and use for other projects. But I couldn't resist it. The car is a Train-Miniature Hills Brothe

>If you click on the thumbnail image, it will blow itself up. IIRC, there >are three resolutions. One is positively gargantuan. This is all true. My error was to go the site index page, where are list

Thanks to Richard,Bill and Garth! This is great! For many,many months I've been thinking the Bowser cars were the end all SAL roundroof cars. I'm not trashing Bowser. I'm just glad that somebody could

Richard Stallworth asked: No, and yes. Write to them at their address shown in many magazine ads (I don't have it handy, sorry). We tend to blame Frank Peacock for sorting all this out. His seminal ar

I do have a Sunshine "catalog" of sorts -- I have a text file that I have kept up to date with all of the Sunshine kits, current as well as discontinued kits. I guess I could post it to the shared fil

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 : /sun.txt Uploaded by : timoconnor@... Description : Sunshine mode

Someone mentioned these cars recently. I wanted to let people know, especially those in California who are planning to attend the Prototype Modelers Seminars being done by Sunshine Models that ML will

2-26-01 Hello everyone In that picture at <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/dynaweb/calher/strike/figures/I0015 605A.jpg> there is also a totally cool Espee USRA 40' composite gondola. If I rec

Richard - Check the glossary section for some freight car terms at: http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/Glossary/Glossary-A.html and what you don't see there, let me know and I will try and post