Ben, Sunshine released a mini-kit for this car at the Lisle meet last week. I opened the instructions, and Sunshine lists the series as 860000-861999 and P&E 3350-3399 in 1953, while noting that

Message 91924 Bill Welch

Clark Propst wrote, in part: I haven't looked in the ORER yet. But I'm assuming all these cars are hoppers. I'm transcribing a Station Car Record book into Excel and though these entries might be of

All I could find in the archives -- no information on the prototype for the swing door ice reefer. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/msearch?query=accurail+8300&submit=Search Tim O'Connor

The NYC car is definitely a hopper Roger Hinman

Greg, I've heard plenty about the BREX/FHIX/WHIX plug door reefers, but can't recall any discussion of the swing door reefers at all. Do you know the prototype? I can't really tell from the small

Hi Clark, I believe that LV 60255 is a double sheathed wood box car. Joel Holmes

Dear Greg: These kits are just now entering the pipeline. Jim Singer had some for sale at Lisle, which he picked on a visit to Accurail last Friday. John Greedy and I have already talked to each

It ay be slightly outside the strict guidelines for the group, but there has been thriving industry in New Zealand in excavating and sometimes restoring steam locomotives that were dumped in similar

Aaron,I have a Speedwitch PM single sheathed Auto car.A super kit and a nice looking car when finished.Armand premo

I haven't looked in the ORER yet. But I'm assuming all these cars are hoppers. I'm transcribing a Station Car Record book into Excel and though these entries might be of interest to some. Train

It surprises me that there has been absolutely no dialog regarding the newly released ACCUAIL 40-foot steel reefers. I know that they were released prior to Lisle but I haven' seen a thing on the

Arron, I've a pix of  a 288XXX series car repainted at St Thomas in April 1952 marked Canadian Division over the CHESAPEAKE & OHIO.  The car was also pooled to be returned to the Candian Division

How soon would would the PM auto cars have gotten C&O paint after the 1947 purchase of the company? http://www.speedwitch.com/Models/k111.htm Has anyone built the kit yet? I saw one lettered for

I spotted this tidbit on page 133 in the October, 1937 issue of SP did this kind of thing several times along the Eel River in northern California, especially around the heavy floods of 1961 and

Thanks Clark, some day I would like to meet you. Maybe in Cocoa some time. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 3047 Creek Run Sanford NC 27332 919-499-5545 srrfan1401@...

There are pictures in one of the books I have. I'm not there, but my recollection is it was just compass east of where Parkhill Rd and 2nd St in East Conemaugh, PA, are, along the west/north bank of

Fenton finished his Chad Boas SAL flat car and sent me a very nice photo. No good deed goes unpunished, so I added it to the "Flat car project" file. Jeff's right on the ball and OKed the M&StL photo

Likewise, the Lehigh Valley dumped quite a few old coal hoppers in the Lehigh River in the Lehigh Gorge during one of the high water floods sometime in the 50's. I do not recall the exact date or

Repairing a washout after a big flood in 1927, the Rutland used 28 wooden boxcars as riprap near East Clarendon, Vermont. See Nimke, "Rutland", vol 3, p 11. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.