The split rail didn’t appear on box cars until 1967. Tim Alund

In the future, way past the end of this list. Brian Carlson

On a similar note, when did IC start painting cars orange with the big black circle with IC in the middle? -- Allen Cain Modeling the Southern in 1955 in HO -- Allen Cain Modeling the Southern in

Thanks Jeff and Tim. I’m doing background research in preparation for building the RCW square corner boxcar kit, I wanted to be sure the slogan fit my era, which it does. Nelson Moyer

The slogan was not applied until Dec 3 1947 and the 1” strip was no longer used in 1951. Tim Alund

Mainline of Mid-America started appearing on repaints and new cars in 1947. Jeff White Alma IL

When did IC start using the Mainstreet of Mid-America slogan on repaints of the 18000 series square corner boxcars? Nelson Moyer

Tim, So no MILW cars as Todd suggested? -- Brian Stokes North Point Street in Proto:48

I believe that is correct but FGEX used both as well. Not as prolific as SP/UP but some As Bill Welch said FGEX were scavengers, used PRR R-7U/F as well. And others as cars were inherited from

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Tichy has TWO flat cars, IIRC. You want the 4021 model, which is 40' long.

There is an article by Richard Hendrickson on these cars in RailModel Journal Jan, 1997, pp53-59 The B&M had 300: https://www.bmrrhs.org/flat_33500_series/ Although (other than that they had "evenly

I don't know -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

No. The C&O had 100 of the 42' cars built to the same basic spec as the 100 PM cars. They were almost all, if not entirely, in MOW or other non-revenue service by the time of the merger. -- Andy

Thanks for all the replies. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

We’re the C&O cars PM before the merger? Brian J. Carlson -- Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY

I have Richard Hendfrickson’s notes about this Red Caboose model, and he mentions these two railroads, in agreement with Tim. I have myself lettered two of them for these roads. Tony

Red Caboose 1920's fishbelly flat car C&NW   1200 cars (40001-42499) odd numbers NYC    300 cars B&M    237 cars FEC    200 cars C&O    100 cars (80300-80399) PM     100

I was not unusual for GATX and UTLX to repurpose single compartment tank cars into two or three compartments by putting in extra heads to separate compartments. You can see the rivet lines for two

These kinds of rebuilt tank cars to get more compartments were very common in the wine-car fleet, though this particular car does not look like one of them. Tony Thompson tony@...