... Yes - between 1949-1956 according to the HK Copeland Company's Loaded Car Interchange Reports, the GT's percentage of loaded cars either received by the...
... Nov/Dec #93. I believe that #4228 was repainted only after it collided with another engine (#?). The repair to the #4228 included a patch on the nose which...
Can any of my fellow passenger types provide config. info, assignments and especially photos of the "CUMBERLAND CLUB." I recall this was one of a series of...
John Hutchins <hutchfye@b...> wrote: Can any of my fellow passenger types provide config. info, assignments and especially photos of the "CUMBERLAND CLUB."... ...
Hi All: NEL??? I guess we are talking about freight traffic interchanged at Portland between the GT on the one hand and either the MeC or B&M on the other...
Assignment of Air Conditioned sleepers (and parlors) by railroad (but not by specific train) can be nailed down pretty well from the Pullman Air Condition...
"Dwight A. Smith" <geebud@n...> wrote: NEL??? ... notation used to identify the 'classic' Grand Trunk (i.e. the line between the Vermont-Quebec border through...
Great!glad someone liked the photos! I know some photos weren't shots of the locos, but sometimes we need good freight pics to model consists accurately to the...
... In the case of the B&M and MEC Interchange Reports with the GT, they did not distinguish between road haul & switch service cars. ... In the 1949-56...
Hi Friends, I was pleased to note that the Broadway Limited web site is showing that the coming HO scale CPR E-8's will be in the earlier g/m/y "full maroon...
From: "Bruce C Bowden" <bcbowden@...> wrote: "Athearn Special Edition #8035 model of B&M F-3A/B #4228 is a beautiful model which runs like a charm. The...
The patch was from an attempt by Billerica to put MU in the nose of 4228. The attempt failed and they welded a patch where the MU plugs would have gone. Tom ...
All, Having roundly chastised BLI for the Gold E-7, I need to note that the replacement shell is, IMHO, beautiful. I'm now ready for more.... Pete in Michigan...
I have heard that this unit was sometimes referred to as "Patch Nose". Anyone know off hand? We (The NSMRC) have a large poster-print of 4228 in the Billerica...
Ayup.....was a welded patch, never painted, always rust-colored.....ugly......I heard that it was in a wreck and they cut the hole to get a grab by the wrecker...
... rust-colored.....ugly......I heard that it was in a wreck and they cut the hole to get a grab by the wrecker to facilitate rolling it back upright. Then...
Hello, M.L.W. Services is now taking deposits on an S scale CN K-3 4-6-2 brass kit. Examples of this engine design also ran on the CV (#230-233,) so these...
Earl Tuson
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On their site http://www.intermountain-railway.com/new.html , Intermountain has indicated that the B&M "Reading" Suburban Coach will be re-released sometime...
Good morning B&M Yahoo Listers, Here's my annual posting of mostly out-of-print B&M paper. Please note that this is a retirement hobby to help out the widows...
searching for photos or slides of BM M3366 250 ton wrecker and cat sideboom and depressed flat that carries the sideboom also Kershaw 130 ton hyrail crane and...
I have uploaded three files of a recent buggy model I completed using one of my kits (moloco SC-1501 cupola kit) and shortening an atlas buggy. The files are...
A question was asked on the NHRHTA forum did B&M GP18`s run on the Maybrook line. Do any of you know if these or any of of the EMD units ran on the NH. IN any...
NIck, The model looks great. Did you start with a wide vision or standard? Can you use the copula from the standard or is the Moloco one better to use? ...
Jim and all, thanks for the compliments I based the main body from an Atlas ICC wide vision caboose, but you can use the standard vision (a little easierand...
I forgot to mention, there was one last modification. Along the bottom edge of the carbody there are "tabs" some long (near the corners) some short (in the...
By the way moloco products are available from your local dealers if they order from Walthers or other major distributors or you can deal directly with me. See...
Does anyone have a spare setthey would part with?? I cannot locate any in my area for 100 miles around and 1stplacehobbies.com was sold out, e-mailed T&T and ...
Don't know if this was asked before...but Has anyone mated the shell of an Athearn P4a to another manufacturers frame??? My remotor efforts were only partially...
Years ago I started to mate one to a Mantua frame and drive. It never got that far along for lack of some of the parts (especially the lower portion of the...