I'm trying to find information (or better yet, actual photos) about how brake lines looked on early railroad passenger cars, probably circa 1860 - 1900. The kit I'm building simply has a thick line laid down the middle of the car body but doesn't take into account the elevation of running over the truck bolsters so I don't know how 'steep' the angle should be of the line between bolster and attaching to the middle of the car body.

All, 

I have a question on tank car type and also if it has ever been made in a model. 

I recently was looking at a facility that transfer CO2 from tank car to truck.. The tank cars looked different then the average car. 

They had more of a frame, and the tank body appeared to be mounted by the way of turnbuckles on the bolsters.

Any specifics would be appreciated. 

In the mid-1970s Kennecott Bingham Canyon started testing diesel motive power at the mine, the old Electric motors had given them many years of great service, but now it was time to upgrade. Pictures from the Don Strack collection found at utahrails.net a special thanks to James Belmont for his wonderful pictures.

Would you ever see a loco with a few cars being shoved and a few more being pulled while switching an industry? By few I mean two or three. I wondered if you'd see that if the alternative was a lot more shuffling of cars just to avoid it.

Matt