Eric, Often the quantity built changed from what was initially ordered so the listing could still be the correct order; just 500 less cars. Sometimes in the "News Section" Railway Age would note

A hopper car interior weathering conversation here a couple of months ago inspired me to try a few techniques to reflect the prototype. These processes are now posted on my blog along with images to

FYI, this topic was discussed some time ago, 2008, beginning with this message, if the Yahoo search worked correctly, message #: 74352; Subject: Lima NYC/NISX stock car model. The conclusion remain

A comment: Having just gone through a lot of"official" archival material, PRR documents have a hyphen in the classdesignations more than a few times, e.g. P70 and P-70 both appear. It's apparentthe

The car in this photo is definitely all silver. The black ends came on a later car group. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Pul-eeeze! H32, not H-32. :-) Tim O'

 David, Thanks. It's definitely not Hegeswisch then. I'vegot a number of car orders from around that time I can't connect with builders.In this case the series is 34000-34499, but unfortunately

"PGH. 5.28.07" No idea if that's McKees Rocks, Alleghany, or neither. David Thompson

3000 cf was pretty large compared to the typical cement car of the day. N&W got about the same result (HC-3) by adding a fourth bay and enlarging the rest of the car, though. David Thompson

In addition to Southern, Central of Georgia served a General Electrictransformer plant in Rome, Georgia, and had twenty 70-ton 37'10" in lengthwith a 17' depressed deck cars in the 11800 - 11819

----- Original Message ----- From: John Barry To: STMFC@... Sent: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:48:29 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [STMFC] Flatcar help Hi: sounds like the Eastern car works depressed center flat

For their day, they were huge. See http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=h32.gif <http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=h32.gif&sel=hopp&sz=sm&fr>

Might be malt. Hello folks, I see that BLI has announced a new Pennsy H-32 covered hopper model to be released in June in two colors and several lettering variations. To me these cars seem

19501 to 19520 were all silver, 19521-19543 had black ends Prototype N Scale Models (TM) by George Hollwedel 2108 Buffalo Tundra Dr Austin, TX 78754-5960 512-579-0539

Seems to me the roof in the picture is darker than the side. The end may be as well, but with the light angle, I can¹t tell for sure. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: Ross Dando

I am getting close to painting the 40' PS-1 cars with Chrysler trucks and it has been brought up that these cars had black rook and ends. Can someone throw me a bone and confirm. The picture in the

Kevin, Do you mean 4 axle or 4 truck? Santa Fe had five modern high capacity flat cars, three of which were depressed center flats. Ft-X, ATSF 90000, had two six axle trucks and a depressed center.

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Kevin; New Haven had at least one. I don't think Westinghouse had any in that timeframe; they badgered PRR and other into providing much larger ones as

Kevin, Add New Haven and Southern to that list. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL https://www5.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the

Can anyone offer some prototype roads for 4axle 90 ton depressed center flat cars? I have one I need to paint up and while it may not be exact I'd like to have something semi correct. I know NYC and