Thanks Jim, I had missed those photos. They are builders photos taken in 1936, and I am needing information about the cars in the summer of 1951. It appears that Dow used alot of different

Joel, CDS makes 7 accurate sets for LV steam era cars. John Riddell

Tony Thompson writes: I could only find a couple of top-down views of jacketed tank cars in Ed Kaminski's books, but none showed a top weld seam, so my view would be that it's not needed. And then

cobbled up from a TIF of artwork Tony sent me: http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/ElDorado.jpg -- Jerry Glow The Villages FL http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/decals.html

Hi All, There have been several posts concerning LV decals. Herold King makes the more modern decal set. Since Walthers and Champ have stopped selling decals, does anyone know of, or are there

I'm working with Tony to make his artwork available if there's an interest. I had started but shelved doing a Warren car and his blog and RMC article inspired me to finish it.

If the lettering is the same except color, just ask (off list) and I can do it that way for you. Jerry Glow The Villages FL http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/decals.html

The car that Jerry Glow made decals for is black with aluminum panels, nor white.  There are photos of this same scheme on both 8K and 10K cars in RPC Vol 3. Jim Barnes Sent from Yahoo! Mail on

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Actually, my decal sheet has both STAX (northern California) and also STLX (southern California). It would be easy to add SCHX reporting marks and typical car

As long as the tank car people are warmed up, I have been researching what the Dow Chemical cars might have looked like in the summer of 1951. I have several photos from Bob's Photo, and one from Jay

I have a Sunshine 42' Mather Rath car that I never did paint because the lettering on the decals was too small and it didn't include the REFRIGERATOR lettering. Now I can get the decals to finish

Randy, I have four photos of SCHX cars. Three are builder's photos which show only the as-built lettering. One is a photo dated 1952 which shows the rather elaborate Stauffer paint and lettering

Randy Hammilll wrote: I don't know much about the cars that made up the Stauffer fleet, and if someone has information, I'd sure like to see it. There were a great many 4000 and 7000-gallon

Tony - Stauffer had several divisions across the country. Would the decals also be appropriate for the eastern division lettered SCHX? Also, the SCHX cars were all either 8,000 or 10,000 gallon

Tony, Yes, you may share your copies with anyone who would like them. After all, sharing information is the purpose of these groups. I continue to be amazed and flattered that this article still has

Great stuff, Jerry. I have an undecorated Red Caboose kits that's just begging to have those Rath decals applied. Richard Hendrickson

Rich, Ben & Rich: Thank you for the replies. I will take Ben's suggestion and try to find an issue of "The Keystone Modeler" issue 37 for the in-service photos of the PRR X30 Paul C.

eddie_walters wrote: Mark or anyone is permitted to share copies with individuals for their personal use--in the copyright law, it's called "fair use"-- and If Mark doesn't have digital

Mark - As one of the younger modelers here (I was 2 1/2 when those articles were published!) I missed them when published in Mainline Modeler - and the back issues are no longer readily available. Is

Mark Feddersen wrote: I could only find a couple of top-down views of jacketed tank cars in Ed Kaminski's books, but none showed a top weld seam, so my view would be that it's not needed.