Color?I believe I saw an item that they were painted red for a brief period.Can anyone confirm this ?Mine are all black.Armand Premo

Tim, No MDT book. My reefer madness has been mainly a West Coast affliction, mostly PFE. The only all-refrigerator car books I have are Tony's PFE book (naturally!) and John

E-B trucks are Lindberg. I was told that at a trade show by the fellow that reintroduced them to the market. Nothing rolled like them when they first came out. I also have a switcher and a couple

Tim, Does it help to identify the reefer if it had a Duryea underframe? I believe as built the feefer had a Duryea underframe. Bob Witt

Ben I'm really enjoying these advertisements. As a teen I used to love looking at any ad that featured John Allen's work. -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

Found this on Flickr by searching for "Seley hopper" https://www.flickr.com/photos/clausschlund/4392487783/ -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Garth It's definitely a DESPATCH built refrigerator car, but I don't know which MDT or possibly NRC series it belonged to. I have photos of other MDT (and NRC) steel reefers but not

Johannes In your era the cars were used exclusively in passenger train services as far as I know. Some cars were repainted in the 1960's with freight service paint (attached). Later the survivors

Hi Steve!

Please excuse the band width waste, but I have received zero messages today from any of my groups, which seems pretty weird. From the web, I can see that there have been some, today. Thanks, Steve

Johannes, Are you trying to put together a fleet of U.P. boxcars? Regards, Bryian Sones Union Pacific Prototype Modeler Murrieta, CA

Ed, many thanks for that link. Yes, all questions have been answered (most important, that the model - unfortunately - won't match my needs.) Many greetings Johannes Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28.

Johannes, The following link provides history & data on the B-50-25 box cars that began in 1939 as UP 9100-9199. RP CYC Volumes 6 and 8 also provide information & photos. In addition the UPHS has

Scott I still have a couple of those kits on hand, contact me off list for kit numbers and price. Charlie Slater Patternmaker Sent from Outlook

Varney ad from the back cover of the February 1959 issue of Model Railroader. Ben Hom

Hello friends, I still need more 40' box cars, and I consider purchasing this

Zoom down to 50% so you cat a whole page, do a screen shot, edit it and past it in your graphics software. I use CorelDraw so I can export all pages of an article as a PDF

Thank you Geogre. Paul

Nicely Done Paul. Should look good all painted. Those doors make for a interesting car George Toman

Wow. I looked at your Facebook page, that is very impressive work you’ve done building those cars from metal. Todd Horton