Jim wrote: "The last BMT car (#153) first appeared in theORER dated April 1959 while the first XT car (#154) first appeared in theJuly 1961 ORER. Did something happen during that interval

Jim Lancaster wrote: I have an ORER issue for July 1962, and the BMT class is still listed, so it did not go away (of course, post-1960 matters vanish into the future haze for this list). The XT

Additional information: According to my Chateau Martin roster at http://coastdaylight.com/chatmart/cmwx_roster_3.html, CMWX 101-105 were class TL (5 cars), 106-153 were class BMT (34 cars) and

Hi All, In honor of all the brave men & women who have served, and areserving our country, Q Connection is having a Memorial Day Weekend Sale on allof our custom-painted Bowser, HO scale CB&Q HC-1

I have the following Westerfield kits for sale. All for $100. Contact me off line at eabracher@... can take Pay Pal #1800 R-30-1 reefer PFE express #5301 S-40-5 stock car original SP #3801 USRA

Agreed David. Railroad archeology is a a real challenge attimes. I do a similar thing, creating as many Excel columns asnecessary to hold all the data that it is possible to glean from adocument, and

Jerry, Lists in pencil and poor handwriting makes the historicalresearch effort a real exercise in cryptology seem simple. TomVanWormer Working Colorado Midland Ledger Books from the 1890s Agreed

Decals, yes. Kits - well I've had a 0% fill rate on my last two attempts where I'd ordered about ten kits and provided alternates for many of them. Sadly I think that it is, for all intents and

This thread seems to have got mixed up with one about transcriptions. Hoping the mods may be able to untangle so it's about CGW 1923 ARA steel boxcars again. Cheers Ben Scanlon

WRT transcription: in my own experience of transcribing train reports I have used Excel… rows for each entry, columns for the different data. I have found it is very important to first transcribe

I used my iPad, but don't like the lighting much, or trying to focus! Getting out copy stand and camera this weekend! Dave ----------

Nelson, contact me at fgexbill(at)tampabay.rr.com Substitute @ for (at) of course Bill Welch

Bill, The three ‘proper’ and the three ‘defectives’are trimmed and sanded, but unbuilt. I considered the possibility of castingthe needed sides and roofs, but the expense of buying the

Nelson – You need to realize that even if the kit had an unlimitedguarantee, at this stage of the business only the dregs of castings are in stockand most kits are out of production with no current

Is Sunshine still accepting and shipping orders? John F. Cizmar On Friday, May 23, 2014 12:49 PM, "Tim O'Connor timboconnor@... [STMFC]" Nelson Yeah, I've found a

Nelson, I hear your disappointment and frustration. When Martin died last year, the manufacturing capability of Sunshine died with him. Any kits Sunshine was able to sell after his death came from

There are drawings in the 1912 Car Cyc of the 30T cars built by ACF for ART; you should be able to find this in Google books Roger Hinman

Jerry, Lists in pencil and poor handwriting makes the historical researcheffort a real exercise in cryptology seem simple. Tom VanWormer Working Colorado Midland Ledger Books from the

Dave, That will be very valuable information in a time period when not much of this data has been available in the past, or at least is not available to most of us. If you do not have time to

depending on who did the writing, these lists (and timebooks as well) canbe difficult to transcribe. My only conductor's list, from the MP WarsawBranch in the 1940s was horrible to transcribe. It