Ya know I've made the same argument about Santa Fe steam locos. Since they rarely went off line, and were used exclusively in company service, there just isn't reason to model them! :-) Tim O'

Jerry I'm trying to wrap my mind around this -- since the IM reefer has separate ends and roof, what is the point of "laser trimming" ?? Trying to salvage the side sill tabs? :-) Tim O'Connor

Also, I noticed that the freight cars on both car floats appear to have either early Janey couples, or a very late example of link & pin draft gear. Tom Casey Guys, what a great photo! Do my

Jim No kidding? "It" being the whole car, decals, or what? Tim O'

Any of the various Rodger-Hart designs would be very complicated to model in resin. And, as John C. LaRue has pointed out, there were not only many variants of the basic Rodger-Hart principle

The small liner leaving the harbour is almost certainly the Dominion Atlantic Railway steamer Prince George (or possibly the Prince Arthur) commencing it's return trip to Yarmouth Nova Scotia. Brian

Tim, you know Stan does similar cars right? http://www.sunshinekits.com/stanpage.html Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga, NY From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On

It's pretty closer <g> to Intermountain's ART as it is an ART car leased to various packers BUT they had shorter doors typical of meat reefers. I did the decals for Stan who selles the proper car with

http://www.ebay.com/itm/370569533780 Ok, another -general- issue for rapid/minimal resin -- Cars like this one with appeal only to late 50's and 1960's modelers. If I could get the car sides, I could

Stan Rydarowicz sells it. Jim [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

You are correct, Don. The tools we have today to investigate this are astounding. I used Google Earth, and while the "lens" used by GE is different than the lens used in taking the Shorpy photo, I

There was a great deal of variation in such things as car side heights, underframe details, etc. These are the wooden cars I am talking about. I do not think there was such a thing as a "generic" Hart

STMFC folks -- does anyone make decals for this Royal Packing ART paint scheme? This car looks like it is pretty close to the Walthers General American horiz-seam steel

It is a great article. Does anyone know of a source of decals? Specifically I'm looking for Eastern roads during the late 40's to early 50's like the NYC, B&O Reading, D&H. Mark Stamm PRRT&HS #

Richard That's kinda why I was asking this illustrious group to consider, can a car like this with many design variations be made "Chad Boas" style or is this type of car just too complex for

Exactly. People just don't seem to realize that the movie is about the *story*, not the scenery. I see similar discussions on the military modeling groups whenever a war movie comes out. Everybody

I personally find it funny in one scene in "Rudy" (which historically was just after list time ends in the mid-60s, but SHOULD have featured plenty of STMFCs in the form of hopper cars in scenes

Nice choice Tim or the Hart Ballast car(,the steel Hopper) .Armand Premo

Hi All, I do believe that the old narrow guage RB&L was incororated into the Boston Rapid Transit system. I do not recall the date. A tunnel was built from the end or near the end of the RB&L into

Tim, the problem with the Rodger-Hart ballast cars was that the design kept changing so rapidly. Sure, some RRs had cars of the same design, but the next year the cars were different and the year