I can't speak for the web, but for what you are doing, you MUST find a copy of John H. White's The American Railroad Passenger Car. Wheedle your library into getting a copy if you can't find it any other place. Also suggest his Freight Car book for the same reason. In both, he discusses and illustrates the development of appliances such as couplers and brakes, as well as the evolution of the construction and styling of these cars.
Essential reading for anyone scratchbuilding, kitbashing or just plain modelling anything pre-WW1. (The passenger car book extends to and includes the streamline era, the freight car book to the introduction of steel cars.) regards ... pqr Quoting John Degnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Darrell Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The Sargent couplers actually represent a later vintage AAR > coupler, but with a little filing and grinding can be made to appear > not dissimilar to an early Janney coupler..... > > > O.k, this is interesting... just how different was the Janney coupler from > the later versions? Is there any place on the web that shows a photo of an > original Janney? > > > > John Degnan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gospel Baptist Church > www.gospelbaptist.net > John's World on the Web > www.trainweb.org/seaboard/welcome.htm > Seaboard Air Line Information Collective and Photo Archive > www.trainweb.org/seaboard/index.htm > Seaboard Air Line Class B-7 40', "Turtleback" Box Car Project > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/SALRoundRoofBoxCarProject.htm > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > With a free 1 GB, there's more in store with Yahoo! Mail. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
