Exactly what I did want, thanks! Schuyler Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:21 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] Re: SFRD The reporting marks SFRD started in 1902 when the Santa

---In STMFC@..., <schuyler.larrabee@...> wrote : Is there, was there, some car shop, perhaps small, on the D&RGW where this car might have been repaired/repainted in 1945?

The reporting marks SFRD started in 1902 when the Santa FE Refrigerator Line was combined into a new Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch company. In 1918 the USRA ruled that the Santa Fe Refrigerator

A friend has a photo of a box car (blt ’39, I believe) but it has a legend of “FA 10-45” to the left of the door. Friends who are D&RGW fans (but not on STMFC) have asked me what that means.

When was SFRD created? Schuyler

John, the Rr-71 had ASYMMETRIC sides - the number of ribs is not the same on both sides.

Well this discussion has gotten out of the period of this group. Sorry for the distraction. I will keep my future comments to stay within the 1960 deadline John B. Moore, Jr. Albuquerque

thanks john thats good news for us n scaler tom -- Thomas j Cataldo

Some question about the N scale model being a copy of the Walthers - well it is not. The RR-71 N scale model had the correct rib count on the side The door on the N scale model appears correct in

Seriously? Are we looking at the same models? The N scale reefer appearsto be a replica of the Walthers model, but smaller. Wrong roof, wrong sides,wrong doors for either the Rr-71 or Rr-72. But other

This is a whole lot better model than the very poor Walthers HO RR-72 MTC non-model. The RR-71 was a good selection as there were 175 car built. It appears to be in the as 1962 as built

Micro-Trains (N) https://www.trovestar.com/generic/zoom.php?id=23382 Of course, the model is decorated as a RR-71....

Have you checked eBay for these Bill? Bill Welch

Ted Culotta's latest release of the Prototype Modeler publication is in my opinion the best yet. This is probably based on the fact that three articles in this edition pertain to cars on my roster.

There must be many, many different placards. I can add the following: Heated Car Penalty Uninspected Clean Cattle Red Ball Freight Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

I would like to model the various non-hazardous materialplacards seen on freight cars. From what I have found so far there are manyprototype examples: Canned Food Do Not Hump Do Not

Beautiful models, as befits your work! Schuyler Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 1:30 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] To be released next week in Lisle See this blog post for

Congratulations Pierre for pulling this project off to fill in a historically interesting group of cars. Bill Welch

See this blog post for the 3 ACF cars that I'll releasing next week. http://elgincarshops.blogspot.ca/2017/10/there-done.html -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

Hi Gang, I'm looking for paint color information for the above mentioned car. I up loaded a B&W photograph under the same heading as this post. Kindly review and reply. Sincerely, Rich Yoder