Bruce, You wrote: (snip) Much like boxcars, there was a shortage of General Service Flat Cars during WW II continuing on until the early 1950's. In a speech before a Chicago Traffic Club in January

Previously written: Likely cars imported by Life Like Canada (Canadian Hobbycraft) with Canadian paint schemes. I seem to recall that LLC took some flak a while back since the U.S. prototype models

Ben,I might be interested in some of those P2K flat cars.Do you have an address ? Armand

Bruce, You wrote: (snip) The NKP and CNW flats are

Larry,Sept 1931 OER lists 600 1061to1600 cars and 300 1601 to1900 cars .

Bruce F. Smith wrote re: slow selling P2K flatcars: Yeah, as I recall, the cars were decorated for CP, CN and BCR. And you wonder why they've been sitting on the shelf in an Alabama

Ah, now I see. These are probably cars imported by LL Canada. A couple of years ago there was some controversy about the LL Canada cars didn't fit the wording on the LL box about being correct,

I said: Jon replies: Yeah, as I recall, the cars were decorated for CP, CN and BCR. I was really surprised to see the stickers, but there they were, on the end of the box! Happy Rails Bruce Bruce

I just finished buying a ticket on United's web site for Naperville/Sunshine Models. I suggest that if you're going, you take a look. My total for a round trip ticket was $188 from San Francisco.

prototypical" labels on them< This is interesting I never have seen this. I thought LL P2K didn't do such a thing! And if they did then why didn't they make the '40 CGW and paste a sticker on

From: "Roger Miener" So Roger, if something was published without the copyright notice before '78 it went into the public domain. Did the changes that were made in '78 give the rights for those items

Richard replied: And I can understand why! If its not available, I'll strip a car and repaint it, but if its wrong, I'll likely as not, not buy it (at least not right away, and not for full price...I

I recently had a computer problem which resulted in many stored files being lost from my e-mail in box. If I owe any of you a response to a message received since late last year, please let me know.

Bill, the 1953 Car Builders' Cyclopedia shows end sill, side sill, center sill, and underframe. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

Bruce Smith wrote: We don't know that they did. The problem is that we don't know that they didn't, and L-L is understandably reluctant to issue models with p/l based on speculation. Not impossible

Bruce, As per my earlier note, from the decal box an 8 that matched. That old sheet also had both new and built dates of '40. A little dullcoat and some weathering and it's fixed. The sheet was

Bill Welch asked for the "correct spelling or prefered style with the following words/terms: end sill, side sill, center sill, under frame." Depends on what you accept as authority, Bill, but the 1984

Richard said: and Clark added: Clark, Richard Thanks for the notes! Since I'm modeling June 1944 that second CGW lot would be one month too new <G>. No lettering info for the 1940 CGW lot eh? When

Roger, A copyright infringement has to be a BIG case for the Feds to care, and even then you can only collect only proven monetary damages. The first railroad book I wrote was fully registered with

My collection of original source material is limited and I have not found the answer to my question in what I have so I thought I would ask the group what I suppose is a mechanical engineering