I've ordered four kits from Rocket Express (two boxcars and two cabooses) on four separate orders and received all of them within 6 months. Ron just takes a while to respond and to fill orders.

Jim That's why I qualified my statements with dates. You did not. Tim O'Connor

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim makes a good point. You can tell immediately in the ORER because the dimensions of a "lumber door" are quite small compared to a full end door. Tony Thompson

Tim, the 6000 class were delivered, having full size (drive a truck into) end doors. Some were later rebuilt into the 30000 class and as I had stated, had end doors modified by then. You listed the

Don, Rocket Express was one of the vendors at Naperville/Lisle this year. I have couple of their kits and they appear to be of a quality and accuracy at least equivalent to Sunshine kits. Richard

Jim Dick wrote Regarding the Northern Pacific: You have to be careful with "end doors" because what we usually call "lumber doors" are listed in the Equipment Register as "end doors". In 1953

Richard, COSX 975 was one of 2 cars built 10-23 by ACF (lot 9643), series 975-976, 50 tons, 3 compartment, 10,000 gallons, ARA Spec. III. I believe the cars later went to SDRX. This photo was

If you look in the Official Railway Equipment Register there is an appendix of "Serial Numbers & Description of Automobile Cars Equipped With Auto Racks" -- Now, this is not a complete list of all

The Fort Collins (Colorado) Public Library has a nice 1930-era photo of COSX 975, a three-dome tank car. I don;'t have an ORER from that far back. Can anyone give me information about the car?

The NP had quite a few. The 6000 and 8000 series readily come to mind and I am sure there were more on the NP. I had dug up some data at the MNHS from AAR WWII reports and these end door cars

Brad, The CB&Q had auto cars with end doors. If you have Volume 12 of the RPCYC a few photos of these cars can be referenced in an article co-authored by Bat Masterson, Hol Wagner and Al Hoffman of

Brad, I just did a quick filter on my box car data and came up with 495 series with auto end doors. It is indeed "a long list." This dump includes new cars built with the doors as well as renumbered

Brad I would say most. PRR Erie CV and LV and ones I have photos of. Brian Carlson

I would call it a standard practice, so manyrailroads had auto boxcars with end doors. The list will be long. ______________ J. Stephen (Steve) Sandifer mailto:steve.sandifer@... Home:12027 Mulholland

Fellas, I am curious what roads (other than SP) had auto boxcars with opening end doors. I was searching on google and while I saw model images, I was not able to source any prototypical information

Fenton, Have you considered Herald King? Their set B-194 does a 40' yellow boxcar with black lettering and their set B-195 does a 40' red boxcar with white lettering. I ordered some a

Thanks for alerting me to that reference, Ray. Those photos show two of the three configurations for these box cars (as received with 11+ ft inside height with 14-6 door; as rebuilt to 10-3 inside

Holy smoke, Gary, were these the two Rocket Express models you began in February 2007 or are you doing some more? On a more serious note, has any one tried to contact Rocket Express of late? On two

Thanks Richard and Tim. I was thinking War Emergency too, but I didn't see that MKT had any. The underframe sounds like a cool variation, which together with the yellow paint job is going to be a

Good call, Tim. Those 79000 series M-K-T cars had War Emergency single sheathed bodies, but they were rebuilds; the new bodies were installed on 40 ton fish belly center sill underframes salvaged