Dear Bob Thank you for sharing this website . I cannot wait to study this. I would love to help someone in Florida do the same sort of thing with the items I have found. Bill Welch

I second what Bill stated. And if the potential manufactures need another resource, there is Jim Lancaster's excellent packing house website

Don Burn wrote: Thanks for the link, Don. Interesting summary of information about the CN cars. But the data are for the CN 209000 series, while the TLT models are from the 210000 series, as

Thanks, Richard. Glad to hear that. I was hoping to find a way to justify one of these on my layout. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

Thanks, Greg, good information. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510)

Meat and fish, Rich, and there is photographic evidence of those cars in the US, e.g. in Utah on the UP and as far south as Los Angeles and Fort Worth. Probably not a lot of traffic, but they

Tony, The PGE cars (820 - 824) were built to the CPR design by National Steel Car in 6-54. These particular cars would be unlikely to travel to the US prior to the early 1960s as the ORERs of the

Bob Chaparro's question on behalf of Keith Jordan got me to thinking about the structures that would have been associated with refrigerator cars (mandatory content) east of the Mississippi River.

Chad's flatcars are complete resin body castings with a laser cut wood floor. The boxcar items are sides or doors to be added to available plastic shells. Check the photos section for Chad's pics and

Tony, This might help http://www.ghqmodels.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3597 Don Burn

A question I have about these cars is to what extent would they have been seen in the US? Weren't they principally meat reefers? Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

I had this question come in from Keith Jordan, one of the authors of "Santa Fe Refrigerator Cars Ice Bunker Cars 1884-1979". Can anyone shed light on Keith's question? Thanks. Bob

Hi, Tony - I work for True Line Trains now, and I can answer these questions for you. I apologize if I break any of the forum rules being a manufacturer. The CP models are the 1953-4 built (I don't

I've seen the announcement from Tru-Line Trains of their new CP and PGE 8-hatch steel reefers. I know that both CP and CN had 8-hatch reefers well back into the steam era, but can anyone be specific

Guys who would want a B&O wagon-top caboose, think "off the hook" has something to do with telephones. (and, by the way, they can tell at a glance that messages which begin "this is crazy you should

Your wait is finally over and your TWO questions are finally going to be answered. First, "What is Spring Mills Depot's second signature car going to be? Their first car, the B&O Canstock car had

Hi John, Your e-mail has been hacked. Joel Holmes

I have come across various posts about flat car sides.  Are they just sides to be added to a current underframe?  Or does modeler have to scratchbuild underframe?   Also, on the boxcars, are they

All, I have added a side shot of the MP 45' flat to the flat car photo file. Chad Boas

Sorry - hit the send button too soon! Here are the rest of the cabooses: MP #997 bay window-cupola caboose. 3-1/4" V-groove siding on sides and ends. (off line in 1960's). GH&SA #66 cupola