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Re: 2018 Chicagoland RPM Mini-Kit

Extremely nice! Very well done! The rivet lines on the center sill are hand-made? Johannes Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. Februar 2019 um 15:40 Uhr Von: "gtws00 via Groups.Io" <gtws00@...> An:

By vapeurchapelon · #162473 ·

Re: Throwback Tuesday: The Lindberg Line

The reefer has short doors like a meat reefer. Some 30 or more years ago I picked up 4 or 5 at a swap and did some simple upgrades…consistent with my limited knowledge at the time…and turned them

By william darnaby · #162472 ·

Re: Throwback Tuesday: 1935 H. Owen ATSF Ra-9 Reefer (1935, and Varney ATSF Bx-12 Boxcar (1936).

Probably the very first American HO freight car kits (perhaps freight OR passenger) were those first advertised in 1935 by the late Howell Day under the name of H. Owen. They were balsa blocks with

By Denny Anspach <danspachmd@...> · #162471 ·

Re: Which is it?

The name changed from General Steel Castings Corporation to General Steel Industries Corporation between 1953 and 1961 but I don't know the exact date. Originally called Commonwealth. Alco and

By Tim O'Connor · #162470 ·

Re: Palace Poultry Car Color

By the way to clarify the "Mudd" above, names over the doors for the most part does not connote a lessee, but is actually the name given to the car. There are a few exceptions to this, including a

By Jake Schaible · #162469 ·

Re: Throwback Tuesday: The Lindberg Line

The stock car is good for a Milwaukee Road stock car. There was an article in Mainline Modeler years ago about that. The gondola is a good model of an Erie car. Both are available now from Mantua, I

By Richard Townsend · #162468 ·

Re: Throwback Tuesday: The Lindberg Line

I believe the Lindberg trucks are still available. Didn't they came in Ribside Cars kits? I threw them out anyway...Were the Mantua 'Heavies' Lindberg cars? C W Propst

By Clark Propst · #162467 ·

Re: Which is it?

According to the magazine write up the company became GSI in 61 I believe? But, I think that was in the write up that called it General Steel Car... Clark W Propst

By Clark Propst · #162466 ·

Re: Throwback Tuesday: The Lindberg Line

I had the Lindberg stock car, flat car and gondola when I was a teenager. I agree the stock car probably is the most useful as kitbash fodder. I -think- I had the switcher - I seem to recall

By Tim O'Connor · #162465 ·

Re: Throwback Tuesday: The Lindberg Line

Friends, I've occasionally seen the Lindberg switcher at train shows, and scored one of the rather oversized cabooses to get the end platforms/steps (parts still in my stock),

By Garth Groff <sarahsan@...> · #162464 ·

Re: Which is it?

Clark Propst wrote: General Steel Casting. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538;

By Tony Thompson · #162463 ·

Re: 2018 Chicagoland RPM Mini-Kit

Superb looking model, George, Great work. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; e-mail,

By Tony Thompson · #162462 ·

Re: Which is it?

Neither. General Steel Industries, Incorporated. I use GSC in my notes and GVSC for Greenville - just to keep them separated. Many other people use GSI and GSC respectively. But since some people

By Tim O'Connor · #162461 ·

Re: [Non-DoD Source] [RealSTMFC] Which is it?

Clark; In the thirties through sixties, when supplying frames to PRR, they were "General Steel Castings", with an s. Elden Gatwood

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD · #162460 ·

Re: Throwback Tuesday: MDC 50 ft SS Automobile Boxcars

I have a photo of a MP DD 40' box car with doors open full of lumber. Clark Propst

By Clark Propst · #162459 ·

Which is it?

At ops last night a friend pointed out a discrepancy in name definition. Both Exactrail and Tangent have come out with GSC flat cars. One calls the company General Steel Car and the other called it

By Clark Propst · #162458 ·

Re: Throwback Tuesday: MDC 50 ft SS Automobile Boxcars

beautiful work, Fred On 2/26/2019 4:19 AM, Fred Jansz wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

By Tim O'Connor · #162457 ·

Rail Road Progress kits question

There was a post on this group on Feb 20 re: an RRP 36L kit. Which came first, Eastern Car Works or RRP? Did 1 company buy out the other? I can’t imagine there was sufficient market demand for 2

By Jim King · #162456 ·

Re: Palace Poultry Car Color

As you may know, no PPKX car is known to survive. So there is a bit of debate on the exact color. (The sole cackle car existent is a Live Poultry Transport type at the StL MoT.) B&W images of

By Jake Schaible · #162455 ·

Re: 2018 Chicagoland RPM Mini-Kit

Well done George, very well done. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

By O Fenton Wells · #162454 ·

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