My apologies to Mike in advance because although the era matches STMFC the remains were emphatically not Freight, but Passenger, Deceased. However, in the interests of knowledge, to learn about the

Tony, I am a BLI dealer and I will be splitting the 4 packs to sell single cars. Just let me know what you want. I generally price 10% over my cost plus shipping and I do not yet know what the

Also, #1271 was assigned to Globe Industries in Lowell Indiana. Chad Boas

At least one exexGN exBN car went on to become WICT 7010and went to IRM (IRYM 7010) until it was panted back to GN 70104 to start thecycle again. Mark Rickert

Local SP yard at Roseburg would have attempted to supply the correct car, in compliance with the rules. Industries did not normally call and say I need a car in 4 or 5 hours. Car orders were placed,

Charles and Ed, These cars may have been converted from surplus Pullmans, but I think it more likely these are hospital cars where were converted earlier, or purpose-built for

Also during the timeframe there was the issue of steel shortages and thereplacement of wood for steel in construction jobs big and small such as "waremergency" freight cars and the last bit of glory

There was an article inMM as I recall on making it into a reasonable MILW stock car. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

I have a few resin kits of B&O gondolas and they claim the O-59 was red? All the photos, which are few. the cars appear black! Mark Morgan

The photo being refered to in the original post is CIL 1271 blt 4-42 photo from the collection of Ken Harstine. The data reads 50' L 10'6" IH. I can't find this car in any of the ORER's I have.

Ed, I looked at my old notes about this Lindberg model which later also was offered by Mantua in their "Heavy" Line. The best match I could ever find for the prototype was a RDG 19000 series built

Gene, yes please, I want the Brown tank car, a Virginia company. Bill Welch

Keith – Gray resin is white resin with black dye added. - AlWesterfield

First, thank you to all for your inciteful and helpful responses to my inquiry. I would like to ask about "white resin" and why it is "good to go". Are the yellow resin kits a problem? What about

Hi all, Dan Holbrook's response below seems to imply that the RRs went thru ever further reaching sources of supply to "fill an order". I'm sure that really

I don't know about exploding paint and solvents, I only use acryilics. About all the other stuff, I am guilty

AAR's "Manual of standards and recommended practices" in the 1977 edition its section L - Lettering and marking cars Ive been looking for earlier editions but have had no luck. mark

Hi- Intermountain made their most recent HO car, the AAR Alternatestandard 2-Bay hopper, with different detail parts to accurately modelthe various roads which had these cars. These kits come with

Gene Green wrote: Does anyone want to split up any of the other BLI four-packs? I might be interested in participating. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest

My question has been answered. Bill Welch