Really guys? First - where are the moderators - I thought STMFC was NOT supposed to be a forum for attacking organizations business practices? Second - talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Last

Was this ever resolved? I was away over most of the weekend and itoccurred to me that I know of that car it was a 50-ton car built forCarnegie_Illinois Steel Corp. CISX 500 or at least I believe that

The Central of Georgia Railway and the Georgia Railroad were two different companies. The CofG is now part of present day Norfolk Southern, while the GARR is now part of CSX.

The C of G only got the black and black and silver paint scheme on the 50" PS-1's. Todd Horton Southeast Machine Tool Sales 3123 Maple Rd Lindale Ga 30147 678-264-7448

What does this have to do with the Ga RR cars? The C of G got two separate lots of PS-1's with 9' doors in 54' and 56' Todd Horton Southeast Machine Tool Sales 3123 Maple Rd Lindale Ga

Hi Clark, You wrote,"How many group members trust what an historical society offersto be reasonably prototypical? I feel the average Joe modeler does." In my opinion historical societies are

Gene Green wrote: "This seemed somewhat germane. 'The Central of Georgia has ordered 500 50-ft, 9-ft-door box cars from Pullman-Standard, for anticipated delivery in March 1956, at an estimated

Denny Anspach wrote: If we really BELIEVED that a foobie is better than nothing, we would all still be re-decaling Athearn box cars. Shame on you, Denny. I am certain that you know

Andy Carlson wrote: Andy says it exactly right, in my opinion. If a historical society cannot make financial ends meet except by issuing foobies, maybe they have exceeded their "sell by" date.

Thanks, Gene, Were these 1000 cars the extent of the aluminum oval paint scheme? I have also read that this scheme only appeared on 50’ cars. Is the correct? Schuyler Newton Highlands MA

Well, by that argument, the societies should only produce models in Prototypical scale (i.e. Proto:48, Proto:87, etc) ignoring the inaccuracies forced by 60+ years of NMRA "standards" and "recommended

Andy Carlson writes: I find it odd that in this forum (STMFC) dedicated to promoting greater accuracy in modeling, we find several defenders of the practice of historical societies offering sham

I find it odd that in this forum (STMFC) dedicated to promoting greater accuracy in modeling, we find several defenders of the practice of historical societies offering sham cars as fund raisers.

Thanks Ben. I'm researching the MILW / NP lines from Chehalis to Raymond / South Bend, Wash, and in addition to looking at the various traffic origins and destinations, I'm looking at interesting,

Schuyler objects to my lumping together all societies . Fair enough! So, as amended, I will simply repeat- "Modelers are just one membership segment of [many of] these societies, and if they know it

Brian R. Termunde asked: "On the NP Telltale group, it was recently discussed about the NP using stock cars to haul railroad ties, does anyone know, perchance, did the Milwaukee do the same thing?

First, my apologies for not correcting the subject line in my last e-mail! On the NP Telltale group, it was recently discussed about the NP using stock cars to haul railroad ties, does anyone know,

 Ben, Thanks for the link to Micro-Scale. While on their page I was looking at their adhesives. Could you helpexplain the meaning of their description for their MB-52 ? (highlighted in red&

This seemed somewhat germane. The Central of Georgia has ordered 500 50-ft, 9-ft-door box cars from Pullman-Standard, for anticipated delivery in March 1956, at an estimated cost of nearly $3.5

Here are links to some Shorpy photos of Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1905. When you get to the photo sites, chick on thephotos to enlarge them. There is a fair amount of detail in each photo.