Thank you, Bill It was me. The model was built in styrene, using an Intermountain roof, doors and under frame, which were modified to suit the prototype. Intermountain's O scale box cars do not have

Thanks for all the responses. I have come to the point when I must decide which particular version (builder, railroad, etc) of the standard USRA car I'm trying to build and have decided to try and

Bill, I don’t know how common it was to mix and match, but I have seen photos of mismatched brake wheels and housings. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn,

Presumably at some point in revenue service either a brake wheel or brake gear would be damaged or fail and need to be replaced. Were brake wheels and brake gear or housings interchangeable so that if

Curious, please who posted the very nice model of the LV boxcar with one door open revealing a load of bagged material? Really well done all around. Bill Welch

Ray Thanks for the background on these cars. My cutoff date is 1954 so this car will be retired from the layout. Charlie Duckworth

Wrong way doors and Indestructible ends? My guess would be LV. Maybe Erie, but they were down to five double sheathed, 36' boxcars by 1945. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

What year are you looking at? The C&EI got their 40' Mather boxcars at some point between 1926 and 1930, and they lasted to about 1954. In the 1920s, the C&EI didn't use the large initials on their

in the 50's a company used the old flour mil in Franklin, MN to grind corn cobs and shipped them by rail to either Chaska or Shakopee to be bagged for use as floor dry. sam

Corn was often stripped from ears for feed or for industrial processes. Corn on the cob would be shipping a lot of waste product if the primary interest was the kernel. Then it would be shipped like

its here: http://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?Categoryid=36 but haven’t posted the C&EI Norm

good to know Norm -- but I could not find anything but O scale on the website

Po-ta-toes, po-tat-oes as far as I am concerned. At least we are not trying the "throw a turnout" ;) Steve Lucas.

no - they are in stock. Norm at Protocraft

Charlie--Look at Ted's Relaunch Decal Set. “Relaunch” Decal Set | Speedwitch Media “Relaunch” Decal Set | Speedwitch Media Product Description This set is

I've been following along on this thread and I see the other box car. The double sheathed box car behind the gondola sparks my interest. Here's the direct link to the photo on Tony's

Charlie -- contact Ted Culotta. I think he took over printing some of the HO scale Protocraft decals. If it's the tall skinny letters you want I think those are what Protocraft did.

Paul I did before my post, they only carry diesel, passenger and one caboose set. Nothing on boxcars cars. Charlie Duckworth

---In STMFC@..., <jack.f.mullen@...> wrote : The bulge plates and flooring clips Dennis describes are shown of the GA drawing he cites, but don't seem to have been used in production. This appears to

Jay, The construction you describe, with flooring extending under the side sheathing, is common for stock cars and composite gons, but I don't know of any SS boxcars built that way. From builder's