I was finally able to get the discount. The charge of $83 was about 1/3 the price of the selected items. Suddenly, a $10 kit becomes $13.33....... Once again, I passed. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Weird. I tried with FOUR box cars and got $22 as the lowest shippingcharge. No thanks. I don't see how you could get 6 Pullmans into an express mail package for$7. I ship stuff by USPS all the time

Hi Tony, If Stanford will not allow many people to touch the older ORER's and will not make copies available what good are they to anyone? My best, Don Valentine

I just ordered 19 boxcars for $75 and change. USPS ground postage to Sunbury, Pa. was $15.65 for a $91 plus change total. KITBASH must be in capital letters. Francis A. Pehowic, Jr. Sunbury,

Online. It gave me about 5/6 choices with USPS being the cheapest. The actual cost was $7.03 for 6 Pullmans. -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems,

Jon, did you order online or telephone? I was usingonline. Craig I just bought 6 Pullmans for $7 shippingUSPS (to CA). I think you are looking at somethingwrong. --Jon MillerFor me time

I seem to recall reading somewhere the industry term for theribs was brackets. Is this correct or was the long-forgotten source incorrect? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I just bought 6 Pullmans for $7 shipping USPS (to CA). I think you are looking at something wrong. -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, SPROG,

I was going to place an order for19 box cars. The price, after discount was $70 and some change. UPSground shipping, cheapest way, was $70.53 to Eastern NC. The shipping kindof kills the 75%

Might note that this applies to the passenger cars as well (Pullmans)! -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, SPROG, JMRI UserNMRA Life member

And the price works out to be $7.99 for the Berwick cars (not steam era, though). ------------ David Fullerton Doha, Qatar    

It works now. Type KITBASH in caps and only on Branchline cars. ------------ David Fullerton Doha, Qatar  

Bill, if you mean NP 10000 series, Ted covered it in his Essential Freight Cars: 4 including pictures of both ends. Would you like a copy? Jim

I don't think wood running boards were ever -specifically- banned. All running boards on new house cars ended in 1966 and wereeventually mandated to be removed from all cars that did not require

Morning All: I am looking for a photo of the "B" end of the Northern Pacific 1000 series boxcars. I hope someone will be able to help. Thanks: Bill Pardie

Wow! When my ex-wife worked there, I could check out ORERs, bound Railway Ages, and reports of the Committee on Car Construction for 6 months at a time (her boss was the Dickens scholar so I was able

Allen Rueter wrote: You might find this Bureau of Mines /Minerals yearbook 1950

I am not sure of the date, but I believe sometime after the cut-off date for this Group. I have many photos from the 1960s of box cars still with wood running boards and some had been recently

Just a thought... has anybody bothered to check with Atlas as to whether this is "fake news"? Bill Daniels San Francisco, CA

Hello Mike and All: Westerfield Models has all of our ORER Disks available on our website. Years covered start at 1888 up to 1965: