Even the railroads had poultry cars. At least the Southern and either the Lackawana or Erie that I know of. Howard Garner

Doug, This was a very interesting story. Thanks much. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Brad Andonian asked: "Is this a wood 36' car?" http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1269496 No. It is clearly a 40 ft car - compare its proportions with the express X29 on the next

I will buy that Cyclopedia, Dennis. I was not aware of it, and you may not believe it but that's the first time any one has suggested it. Ben Scanlon London

Nelson, The original thread was an issue over mixing Krylon with other brands ofpaints with dissimilar vehicles. This is dicey regardless. Moral of the storydon't mix them with Krylon. Greg

You're kidding. In this day and age, if you walk in through the front door, the suits are going to want to charge you an hour at shop rate to even write up an order, and that's $60-$70 right

Not yet. I painted a CB&Q SSS baggage car with Krylon Flat Aluminum and sealed the custom inkjet printed shadowline decals with Krylon Crystal Clear. Three years later, all is well. Nelson

Don Ball in Kansas City has extensive information about live poultry cars and their operation, which he kindly sent me some time ago, and which is on my old computer. It might be best to contact him

You can also try a local machine shop. They can order the correct size and cut it to length for you. Ken Braden

Fellas, Is this a wood 36' car? Brad Andonian Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

Dennis, this is an even better photo of that type of Erie box car http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1269496 Tim O'Connor

Garth if you read the history of Poultry cars at http://www.hoosiervalley.org/history/turkeys-and-trains/ you will learn that by 1950 only 15 poultry cars existed and the last shipment of poultry by

I have a can of Krylon solely for use for "fixing" home-made decals after they come out of the laser printer. This is what MicroMark recommends with their decal paper. Has anyone had a problem with

Schuyler Larrabee] wrote: I'm happy to say I never had a tragedy like Schuyler describes, but I too have had problems in past years with Krylon. I too would recommend that it NOT be used for

I will NEVER use Krylon on a model again. Decades ago, I superdetailed an ABBA set of Athearn F7 units that I converted into the ERIE’s F5, 710 ABCD. I really pulled out all the stops and they

Doug, You weren't kidding. I just rambled through the whole private owner section of my 1958 ORER, and found not one poultry car. Curiously, they were still listed among the

I've been sent an ORER page indicating that the CN&L 2500-2524 and the later series 2525-2549 (which 2530 was part of) were 8'6" IH by 8'6" inner width ... so I'm assuming the outside width of the

I've been using Krylon clear flat finish in lieu of Testors Dull Coat for awhile now with no problems. Saturday I prayed a Red Caboose 10,000 gallon tank car kit with it as part of the weathering

Got lead shot in California recently for about the same price. Bill Vaughn

In 1952 the PRR was carrying live poultry on train FW-8 in block 5 as it was reclassed at Enola destined for the Live Poultry Terminal in Long Island City. Which specific cars I cannot verify. FW-8