Jason, I don’t know the answer to your question, but I offer the following that may help. RI 264000-264149 single-sheathed, 50’-6” auto cars were built ca. 4-30 by the Standard Steel Car Co. and

Tim, Agree most yards collect empties for repair and assignment, but then they are usually not located in what appear, in the photo, to be either arrival or departure tracks. For the Major roads, most

Often I am reminded of my late, dear friend, Terry Wegmann. As has been told before, Intermountain rushed their PFE R-40-23 steel ice bunker reefer to market to beat out Jerry Porter's IMWX R-40-23.

Tony is correct. The only things I used were the body, doors, and underframe/floor assembly. Most of mine got the really nice 7 and 8-rung ladders introduced by Detail Associated in brown styrene. I

Do you know or can you find out the builder? There are resources but all the facts you can provide about who built it and when would go far to helping you out. Schuyler Hello group, Jason

Hello group, Would anyone here know of a resource that would show the underframe for a Rock Island 50' outside braced auto box car like the one at IRM #264070? I should have taken pictures when I

Rich Orr wrote: Not sure what the smoking materials may be at your house, Rich, but I helped Dick with lots of kits and built a bunch too. Never saw a single Grandt ladder or wire grab. Of

Devoe Upland Green. Marty McGuirk Manassas,Va.

Rich I've wondered about this - the BODY and ENDS on his reefers were justfine. It was the extremely poorly rendered roof that really spoils the model.If I had seen only the body and ends I would have

Does anyone recall the name of the Sherwin Williams color for the CTC green paint? thanks, Gary McMills

To add to the C&BT Dick was talked into the cast on ladders and grabs by two well known often published model railroaders. Prior to the recutting of the dies the cars came with grandt line ladders

Okie dokie

Almost any large rail yard will have strings of home road cars. They could be (1) awaiting repairs or (2) awaiting assignment. They parkthem together to keep them away from cars in transit. They are

Not to mention the huge potato crop from the Red River valley. And apples from Washington. And fresh vegetables from southern Minnesota (ya know, where Green Giant got started).

> Directly from the source C&BT announced 1988 NMRAconvention > Rich Orr I restarted in the hobby in the summer of 1988, and IIRC GeorgeBishop got the first stocks of C&BT kits in 1989. C&BT had

Downloaded the largest image from the LOC. (4a24766a.tif) They look like milk cans to me. They have the right shape and size. Howard Garner

Gentlemen, I found another photo on Shorpy I was not aware of: http://www.shorpy.com/node/14279?size=_original Barstow, CA, 1943, ATSF yard. Notice the string of ATSF XM's to the left of the hoppers -

Please guys, don't let Denny starve. We need him. Jared Harper Athens, GA

Hey, you guys- Please do not post photos like this. The information overload has delayed my breakfast, not to mention the breakfasts for all others waiting on me. One could write a book listing all

Bill, Directly from the source C&BT announced 1988 NMRA convention Rich Orr