I'm with Tim and Armand. Recent research has found both freight (Whitings and Herlihy milk cars)and passenger (CNR First Class Coach) cars that were not regulars but certainly were very

Bill, Start time? Marty

This will allow them to be differentiated from the passenger car guys who will be wearing Pullman green, Milwaukee orange or stainless steel shirts(also to be worn 50yds east of the low tide mark due

Unfortunately many just run their,"favorite cars" and I tend to agree with Tim.Armand Premo

David Thompson wrote: "I like the d20 method. If you roll a 20, pull the aluminum reefer out of its box, put it on the layout for that session, then put it back in the box at the end of the day.

I like the d20 method. If you roll a 20, pull the aluminum reefer out of its box, put it on the layout for that session, then put it back in the box at the end of the day. Next time you roll a 20,

Here's final update guys. Looks to me we are full and I will take a few reservations for hand outs at this point. If you think your name should be on the list for handout only drop me a prompt

In order to enhance our Steam Era Freight Car modeling experience at the forthcoming ProtoRails 2013 – Cocoa Beach, the following thread from the recently defunct "Shirt Club Discussion Group" is

i will look into ordering something like that, as it seem a primer would be in order, for me, anyway. i should say i am thankful to frank valoczy for his work in posting such a huge amount of

hullo earl i would respond to you off list ... but i replied to your earlier email to me, earl, and it has bounced twice now. i do not know if this is a symptom of the same problem. regards, ben

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim sets up a straw man here, that I am opposed to having ANY unusual cars. I didn't say that, don't believe that, and don't practice that. I strongly agree that unusual cars

Yeah, Tim, but if you're going to have one or two odd-ball cars on a layout, they should be OBVIOUS odd balls (e.g., helium tank, dry ice reefer, drop-center flat car, etc.) Otherwise, who knows

Hi Fellas,   I am having the decals created as I like to have the car correct for the box---   Tony's point is fine except I don't see any other UP decals in O that are readily available---so I may

Tony, I subscribe to the contrary philosophy, that says if your layout contains NO unusual cars, then it's not very representative of most railroads, since one can often spot unusual cars in photos

Ben - Thanks for providing the identities of the (5) demonstrator cars. I thought the UP car might have been one of them, but I did not purchase any of the PL models unless they had prototype

Tony - I fully agree with you! Only a card-carrying UP fan would want to purchase one! Pat must have had one such modeler assisting him on the project; hence the UP car. Thanks for your great

Pieter Roos wrote: "The "Postwar Freight Car Fleet" appears to be still available from NMRA, although some resellers list it as out of print." It's shown on the NMRA homepage, but it's no longer

Also worth mentioning are the Speedwitch Media freight car books and "The Postwar Freight Car Fleet", Larry Kline and Ted Culotta, National Model Railroad Association, Inc., Chattanooga, TN,

For some reason when I submit posts via my email account, yahoo does not recognize them as a continuation of an existing thread, which can be a detriment to future archival searches. However, when I

The August, 1992 issue of Mainline Modeler had Jeff Koeller's article on these cars titled "Fowler Box Car". It includes two Delano photos from 1942 and 1943, showing that at that time both styles of