DesPlaines Hobbies got the new Walthers HO Corrugated Observation Cars in today. They look really nice... all the cars looked like they had the small tailight....maybe the larger tailight housing is
If you are talking about the straight sill cars, the Q used NP drawings to build their own version of the NP cars. The ones I am thinking about were FM-14 built in 1942 and were 53'-6" long CB&Q 9200
The "Glory Machines" series of tapes has one of the Aeolus heading up a train of standard heavyweights, eastbound on the racetrack, possibly Naperville, IIRC. I would have to pull out the tapes and r
The TP&W had Northerns, at least their wheel arrangement was 4-8-4, although I imagine some road's Mikados were bigger! Don't recall their number series, however. Charlie http://docs.yahoo.com/info/t
The M4 s were made by LMB (Leonard M. Blumm) not Lambert, who if I recall, was the name of a St. Bernard owned by a California brass importer. Charlie I lot gear. have a as where around at See it <ht
Bowser picked up the former Cary Locomotive works HO and O Scale CB&Q cuckoo-clock headlights as part of the Cary purchase. Don't know about current availablility. Charlie Vlk
Sharp eye, Russ! Those are the style applied to very late F7s and F9s.... must be a spot replacement. Have no idea what the other side looked like when the left side got those louvers. Charlie -- Ori
Those louvers are not operable. They are formed fixed louvers. The vertical slit jobs are replacements of the entire panel between the battens. Probably the unit was sideswiped or involved in some ot
The Q had a dislocated property called something like the "Chicago, Burlington and Hammond" - don't remember the exact name but it shows up in the W.W. Baldwin corporate history.... that was adjacent
RussI don't know anything more about the operation than it existed. IIRC I once dug up maps and determined exactly where the operation was....it consisted of not too much more than a few yard tracks
The Betterment Sleepers were silver roofed when put into service. The black may be a repaint or simply steam locomotive soot. Charlie -- Original Message -- From: <Wrjensen@y...> To: <BRHSlist@yahoog
Robey Street was changed to Damen Avenue. Robey Street bisects about the middle of the Western Avenue yard. The B&O engine terminal to the north was still known as Robey Street well after the name ch
The MicroTrains truck mounted coupler would require major surgery to get the coupler draft gear, steam and brake pipes, etc. clear to swing. I have not been able to get couplers on mine yet... they a
I really had very little to do with Marshall Thayer's excellent Pioneer Zephyr drawings....I sent in some photos and drew up the Zephyr Alphabet from Budd/Burlington stencil drawings. Charlie I =| /-
Look on the inside of your Stewart (or Atlas) shell... the moldmaker has spotted the locations of the stacks for all variations. No one to my knowledge has pointed this out, but the stacks are not th
The E-5 conversion will be a major project in that the side windows have to be lowered for the "letterboard" which separates them from the vent grilles at the top of the carbody. I think the windows
Everything from 9900 through 9908 and the E5s were, of course, stainless steel. (Although some photos, especially of the Twin Zephyrs, seem to suggest that they had temporary steel (or at least non-p
The N Scale car tailight can be lit using the standard car lighting kit. Also, Richmond Controls sells a kit specifically for this car which includes a mars light function. Charlie