Ray,      Appreciate your comments.  Could also build the boxcar as a 8' IH with 6' door.  Suggestions?  Would be interested in doing a NYC or relate rr boxcar.  Suggestions.  We can use

Hi Steve, I have the openh top car book and can find the photos of open Ga-54s, but not one with a roof fitted. There are photos of the other hoppers that had roofs added, but not the Ga-54 - unless I

I know that tackboards went from an early high position to a later low position on the ends but I've noticed that there is some variation in the high location. I noticed that Athearn modeled the

Let's see, 2" in HO scale is 2/87" or roughly 1/44." Something tells me that just does not matter. On the maps, be sure to match the Santa Fe scheme to your modeling date. The curved map,

Hi Bob,   At first glance this sounded like any of several thousand NYC Lines boxcars built before WWI. But there's a small problem. Nominally, a 7/7 corrugated end will only give you an inside

Staffan,       Only do Scale S freight and passenger cars.   Do you have a suggestion for the specifications listed below?        The kit that I plan to build has double door, Murphy

Mark Stamm asked: "Sandy has had us in the dark since Monday so I sat in the dark last night reading the latest RPCYC this is motivated me to build a few of the Intermountain Modified AAR kits that I

Mark Stamm asked: "Sandy has had us in the dark since Monday so I sat in the dark last night reading the latest RPCYC this is motivated me to build a few of the Intermountain Modified AAR kits that I

Sandy has had us in the dark since Monday so I sat in the dark last night reading the latest RPCYC this is motivated me to build a few of the Intermountain Modified AAR kits that I have as ATSF Bx-37

Tony, Thanks for the clarification. I was not as precise in my writing as I wanted to be. I was trying to convey my impression that it WAS likely at Fort Dodge that the SPS box car was needed for

S-scale? Other? Staffan Ehnbom

There are photos in the society open top car book as well. Sunshine did a mini-kit of these which includes a couple of roofs to add to plastic cars.

Does anyone have a photo/scan they would be prepared to share of one of the ATSF Ga-54 2 bay hoppers that had roofs added in 1945, please. Various numbers within 180800-180999 - 45 cars in total. Or

Bob McCarthy wrote: "Am interested in starting a project building a 10' IH 40' DS 7/7 fishbelly DD boxcar.  Am looking for candidates to model from various railroads." 7/7 what?  Murphy ends? Ben

Charles Hostetler wrote: Since the CGW did not have a direct connection with the SP&S, the empty car, if not needed for loading, would not have been sent "homeward" at all, but returned to the

Good evening!      Am interested in starting a project building a 10' IH 40' DS 7/7 fishbelly DD boxcar.  Am looking for candidates to model from various railroads.      Please send

Thank you for the clarification Dan, I'll paraphrase to make sure I understand - if there had been a loaded order for the car at Green Bay or Sturgeon Bay then the movement from Iowa to Wisconsin

Dan Holbrook wrote: Thanks to Dan, who knows this stuff better than likely anyone on this list, for the clarification. But it's worth pointing out that in the early 1950s, an AAR survey found that

I also thought that the use of an SPS car for this shipment (away from its home district) was interesting. Car Service Rules allowed cars located within an AAR district to be backhauled empty in the

I think there are a couple more model railroad uses for distilled water; thinning paints when water is the appropriate thinner, and soaking decals. The latter is especially true for those of us who