I've modified the URTX-Milw set for the Walthers car to create an as built version. http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/URTX.jpg and did two different WM gondolas:

To Whom It May Concern:   Mount Vernon Shops is happy to announce the introduction of the following new Decal Sets to its line.   HO Scale PRR 65 foot Mill Gondolas int he Circle Keystone Scheme.

Hello group, Kieth Edwards passed away yesterday of natural causes at the age of 91. Kieth and his twin brother Dale co founded Kadee Quality Products back in the 1940's. Around 1990 Kieth and Dale

Coal was delivered in gondolas - drop-bottom or otherwise - to the Farmers Co-op Elevator in the small Iowa town (pop. 250) in which I grew up. Oscar Barker, one grade ahead of me in school, was paid

I'm working on a pair now. I am concerned about accurate decal placement. The only photos I have pulled off the internet are quite fuzzy. Does anybody on this list have a clean photo preferrably in

Would Scott Heiden please contact me off list? Thanks Pierre Oliver

Re: How those doors work. It appears to me that there are two sets of three doors on this side of the car. If you compare how the links are wound around (or not, as the case may be) the shaft,

The car in the photo is a CN GS gon of the "Enterprise design.  CN inherited a number of 36' versions from the Intercolonial/Canadian Government Railways, possibly CNoR and also the GTR, then had

Late 40's there was a small coal yd next to the IC Government Yd. Yard was used to service IC, GCL & T&NO pass trains and power. This little yard had a slightly elevated track with a small pad or

One of Tony's "other possibilities" is me. I did artwork from the same photo he's using but never released it for lack of a model. I'm doing a few for him and will wait to see if there's an interest

This "side-delivery" process was more common in the cold  Midwest prior to the First World War .  Normally these cars would dump into a chute going into the basement of a business' boiler house or

I believe this is a CN "Otis" car. I'm not as familiar with the Otis mechanism as I am with the Enterprise, but I believe they worked the same in that each operating shaft only dumped one quarter of

I was also mystified by that 'only one door open'. I can't see how that could be done. Anybody familier with that mechanism? Charlie

It appears that the other doors were propped shut so only one door opened to release its coal load. The mechanism for that door is the only one extended on that side of the car. Things you learn,

Thanks to all who replied, on and off the list. Several pointed out the Mount Vernon Shops set for WM Hoppers that is pre-speed lettering. This would certainly provide the basics, though some

Tony, Mt Vernon Shops has WM hopper decals that you may be able to make work. http://www.mountvernonshops.com/ Rich Orr

Bill, I may be showing favortism, but I think that Tahoe Model Works' Double Truss Trucks (TMW-107/207) with the wide spring spacing will be the closest match. Brian Leppert Tahoe Model Works Carson

Tony, Not sure if this will help but John Frantz, aka Mount Vernon Shops, who in the past has mostly done excellent PRR decals, has a WM 2 bay hopper set. See

Rich Christie wrote: Thanks, Rich. If need be I may use the CDS set, though it is for a somewhat different gondola. The Champ set has a medallion which looks oversize for a gondola, so I don't

Tony, Mount Vernon Shops has a set for WM Hoppers that is pre-speed lettering that you might be able to use...check out John's website for more info at www.mountvernonshops.com... Bob