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

IMO, just about any shade of orange will work if you are modeling a train of PFE reefers as they appeared in the "wild". There are many color photos of such trains and the number of different

Dick Harley at Naperville had many PFE reefers on display; he prefers the P-B-L "Star" brand color for PFE orange to others. The Tru-Color to my eye seems a tiny bit off, but in the past I've mixed

Bob, By 1950 some 9000 series cars were repainted all mineral red (including trucks) with the 54" GNR (Great Northern Railway) herald. Those not repainted after 1947 would have black ends and roof

Scott Pitzer says: "Somewhere along the line, the formatting for an apostrophe was just too much to handle, so you get that instead." I like the Chinese answer better. Mike Brock