Seems to me there is a chart in the Car Builders Cyclopedias of the time period. I'll check. Jim Cummings

I am late with the post, but I have the correct information. This box car #469520 is from the series B&O 469500-469533 assigned B&O/C&O class B-13. These 50-ft box cars were rebuilt at the B&O DuBois

Over the years of building numerous styrene and resin freight car kits it is impossible not to notice the variations in the length of the Running Board overhang in the kit parts. Was there a standard

Thanks for sharing this with us. Note the major shift in the number of Santa Fe cars on line and number of foreign cars on Santa Fe from 1934 to 1943. Cyril

The wreck picture is very enlightening. These cars, and I presume the milk cars from which they were modified, carried their loads in two large tanks inside the wood-sided exterior. The doors were

John, AWESOME DATA! Many thanks for sharing. I am also trying to estimate a WWII freight car distribution - although on the other coast. I noticed that by late '43, over 2/3rds of ATSF box cars were

I have added new photos of Chateau Martin wine cars (ex-milk cars) to my CM web page. http://coastdaylight.com/chatmart/cmwx_roster_1.html Jim Lancaster

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for the bridge photo. I now have several excellent scans. Turned out it was my first submissionbut my second publication. The photo was an out take

I made a discovery at the CSRM last week that shows the actual number of system and foreign auto, box and refer cars on line on the Santa Fe from 1934-1943. I've written a post about it here

Al, I found a June 1965 Model Railroader article for a tie cutting jig. For some reason I wasn't able to find the camelback on a model of the Quebec Cantilever bridge article in my digital MR

Bob: Thanks. I was hoping you wouldn't say it was too high, since it's a pretty short car even compared to a couple of the USRA non-raised-roof rebuilds I have. Ron Merrick

My digital version of MR shows it as Page 52 of August 1967. I suspect you can find a clearer scan than what is was done by Kalmbach. It is a camelback leading freight cars over the bridge. Don

That's about 25% of the prototype. Which remains impressive Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

Hi Al, I will look and see if I have the issue and if I do I will copy it and mail it to you as I do not have a scanner. It will be interesting to see the bridge and the freight cars on it! Tom

Pierre – Of course it was compressed but it WAS 10 feet long. – Al

You built a model of the Quebec bridge!? That I would love to see. Was it compressed or scale length? Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

I’m getting my affairs in order. No, I’m not dying, I’m eliminatingmagazines that didn’t go with the sale of the business, ones with my photos orarticles. I’m digitizing them, along with

Ed Mines asked: "Which alcohol is used to fade paint colors with dullcote?" Isopropanol, IIRC. Mike Rose's technique article was in the July 2001 issue of RMC.  "Some alcohols attack decals and I

Anyone taking organic chemistry soon learns that adding A to B does not always result in C & D. Chemists sometimes have to stand on their heads to get get a little bit of C -put in a whole lot of

Which alcohol is used to fade paint colors with dullcote? Some alcohols attack decals and I think this would be worse for modern day thin film decals. Ed Mines