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Re: A&EC 40' boxcar

Mark, Have you found decals for this car? If t I may try to see if Jerry Glow has any interest in making them. They are colorful. Rich Christie ________________________________ To:

By Rich C · #106551 ·

Re: was Creco doors changed to Deco ends

Todd, I believe that was kind back off the Raceland-Russell interchange track and Raceland disassembly yard where they could take a hopper or gon down to its working underframe assembly with

By water.kresse@... · #106550 ·

Re: was Creco doors changed to Deco ends

Al, As best as I can recall this was down near the welded rail shop. The car was sandwiched in a group of other cars being used for storage. Todd Horton ________________________________ To:

By Todd Horton · #106549 ·

Re: Adhesives for Plastics

Bill, I have limited experience with it; but always had very good results. I found out about it around a year ago, while watching an episode of "Cody's Office" on Model Railroader's web

By Gary Roe · #106548 ·

Re: A&EC 40' boxcar

Thank You, Ben I should have thought of this list on steamfreightcars. The car places at a build in 1938 and appears to have trucks similar to accurail. Mark Morgan

By Mark · #106547 ·

Wetserfield Fowler Box Car FS

Gentlemen, I have FS a new-in-the-box Westerfield, HO scale #4452, Fowler Modern Box Car, CStPM&O "Omaha" box car with decals (no trucks/couplers). Kit is new in the box. I opened it for a brief

By golden1014 · #106546 ·

Re: Mike Brock & Rapido

Paul Hillman writes: "This is slightly off-topic, except for the mention of the name, "Mike Brock"." Who? Never heard of him... "Just received my HO Rapido C&EI 6-4-6 Sleeper, the "Pitch Pine",

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #106545 ·

Adhesives for Plastics

Some time back during one of the occasional and perennial discussions about adhesives, someone mentioned there was an adhesive now effective for adhering slippery plastics. I cannot find the

By Bill Welch · #106544 ·

Mike Brock & Rapido

This is slightly off-topic, except for the mention of the name, "Mike Brock". Just received my HO Rapido C&EI 6-4-6 Sleeper, the "Pitch Pine", passenger car, and it's a beautiful model.I had it on

By Paul Hillman · #106543 ·

Re: Creco and Superior doors

Superior also entered the plug door business during the mid fifties, their products are shown in the '57 CBC IIRC (it's at work), and continued making plug doors at least into the early sixties. I

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #106542 ·

GN flats

I have posted photos of the GN 66000 welded flat. It is just about ready to make the mold. I am working on the rivited 50' and 52' cars now and am having the deck cut for the 43'. Please send

By Chad Boas · #106541 ·

Re: Creco and Superior doors

My apologies. Somehow, I missed that. Which establishes even more clearly a close relationship between Creco and Superior. Richard Hendrickson

By Richard Hendrickson · #106540 ·

Re: Creco and Superior doors

Richard Hendrickson wrote: I beg to differ. Pages 448 and 449 of the 1940 Cyc show BOTH welded and riveted doors with the Creco name. And those Creco welded door drawings from 1940 are all but

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #106539 ·

Re: Creco and Superior doors

The Creco door, which first appeared in the 1920s, was a three panel riveted door, and continued to be produced into the late 1930s; there is an ad for Creco doors in the 1937 Car Builders'

By Richard Hendrickson · #106538 ·

Re: Creco door ... is this what y'all want?

Dennis Storzek wrote: Dennis rightly observes that Creco and Superior doors are not exactly the same thing, though they have a similar appearance. Chicago Railway Equipment appears to have spun

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #106537 ·

Re: Creco door ... is this what y'all want?

That looks like a post war Superior welded panel door... were these ever sold under the Chicago Railway Equipment Co. (CRECo) name? I think the door everyone was asking about was an earlier design

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #106536 ·

Re: Creco door ... is this what y'all want?

Jim, You are also providing much needed detail parts that should attract other modelers myself included. The Creco door being discussed is the 3 panel, used on some 1937 10' IH Box Cars on C&O,

By Rich C · #106535 ·

1937 AAR 10'0" boxcar kits

I have both Intermountain and Red Caboose 1937 AAR 10'0" IH 40' boxcar kits offered for sale in HO. Intermountain #40799 undec '37 AAR single door boxcar kit (have 4)

By Andy Carlson · #106534 ·

new decals

Artwork is done and now taking orders for decals for the 3 GN flatcars Chad is doing. Also did another "y'all" car - a 10'6" IH boxcar for Colombia, Newberry and Laurens. There's also a set for an

By jerryglow2 · #106530 ·

Re: Preserved stock cars

The California State Railroad Museum has in its collections Western Pacific stock car #75893, a converted box car originally built in 1916. I personally picked out this car (and two DS box cars)

By dennyanspach <danspach@...> · #106529 ·

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