Milwaukee Road combo door 40'. 88-232 Cotton Belt 40'. Box car. 87-322 Hubert Mask

I must confess that I don't know how to search the Mask Island website by SKU #. I see that each product *has* such a number, when I call it up; but finding a particular number has me buffaloed. --

That would be great Hubert but just tried searching by those numbers on your site and this function did not ID any sets w/either number, so they are not helpful. Maybe you could tell me which sets

I have 2 decals set 87-232 and 87-322 that have that data on the cars. Hubert Mask Mask Island Decals Inc.

Tony Excellent! I've wondered about those decals - I agree they are mostly forpost-1960 modelers but clearly they work very well. Tim O'Connor

Something that is used by many modern-era freight car modelers, but seems unknown to most steam-era modelers, and of which I was only vaguely aware until Collinsville last month, is decal weathering

Tim. Is that for the 6 foot door with the vertical lift bar in the middle of the door at the bottom? If so I have several 40' Decals with that. I believe Maybe not the road name however. Hubert

Bill - can you post a photo of that "Lift Here" lettering ?Without a picture it's kinda hard to tell you if another set has it. Tim

I have finally painted and started to decal my Monon #1-500 boxcar that we now know thanks to Ed Hawkins is actually a Pullman PS-1 using mostly decals done/sold by Mont Switzer. His set is pretty

---In STMFC@..., <tony@...> wrote : Dennis Storzek wrote: According to the MCR report of 1903, the reason for the dome yoke was to prevent the tank rotating around its long axis. Full agreement,

Another batch of tips and techniques are shared on the latest Resin Car Works blog post. Peter Hall describes how he built an HO scale Speedwitch Media Southern Pacific automobile box car. Check it

Richard Townsend richtownsend@... [STMFC] wrote: Richard, ACF built one, shown in RP CYC Volume 10 as part of an article on Type 27 uninsulated multiple-compartment tank cars. Regards, Ed

Why were there no five compartment tank cars? There were one, two, three, four, and six compartment cars, but no five compartment cars. Why not? Just no shipper wanted one? Inquiring minds want to

Further to Steve Hile’s note --- Bettendorf records show thatbetween 1901 and 1903 Bettendorf built 14 orders of tank car underframes for UTLfor a total of 2,200. There were five different

Dennis Storzek wrote: According to the MCR report of 1903, the reason for the dome yoke was to prevent the tank rotating around its long axis. Full agreement, though, that the center anchor

And were these the famous Rockefeller tank cars? The car in the photois dated 1899, and Standard Oil and UTC were separated in 1901. Tim O'

---In STMFC@..., <schuyler.larrabee@...> wrote : Looks like you nailed it, Brian. So, is that a tube on the lengthwise centerline of the car, running down from the dome? And if so,

There are five tank bands around the tank on this tankcar. Four are flat strips with threaded rods welded to their ends. The center one is a round "wire" that wraps around the dome. to help keep

Thanks, Tony. That's exactly what I need. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

In the 1955 tariff, there are several, for example SHPX 157, 9942 gallons; 158, 9933 gallons; 159, 9877 gallons, and so on, from SHPX 160 to 166, all 9900 plus gallons. Tony Thompson