Ralph Brown asked: "Do you happen to know the Walthers item number for that car? The replacement end with end doors has piqued my interest." Steve Hile replied: "try

Interesting. The Memohead must be post-1901 since it has an "Automatic" telephone number for the Chicago exchange. Automatic Electric was related to the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph and the

I usually justify my SP/GN/Milwaukee single sheathed boxcars since they were often seen spotted at lumberyards in my neck of the woods with lumber products. I know (or think I know) I've seen

Scott: Maybe or maybe not. Several of the car builders had proprietary parts such as doors, ends and roofs. ACF and Pullman Standard come to mind. Also, some of the smaller builders got more than

Rob Mondichak asked: "I've justified an SP G50- on my east coast coal hauling branch as something bringing in product from Espee territory. Need you SP guys to school me on what types of

Fred, The 1937 and 1945 boxcars were built by Mt. Vernon. The 1947 cars were Pullman-Standard. So as I have said before, the WP was anything but consistent. The

We in O scale are blessed to have a wonderful and accurate scale model of G-50-9/12 GS gons in brass courtesy of the late Pat O'Boyle and his Pacific Limited. Beautiful models and a signature of the

Gents, That car is from NJI&I 2000-2149 built ACF Lot 9553, 1923. they had an inside height of 10-6. ACF builder photos are available on the Westerfield ACF photos disk.

Garth, Illinois RR Museum, Pullman Library could have a WP PS-1 picture. 1951 is just out of my 1950-modeling/collecting scope, but you could ask them. The 1937, 1945 and 1947 batches were all built

One of the problems I had with the Walthers 50' SS auto box cars were the diagonals were quite removed from the vertical, more than just about every example I have looked at. This would of course

Hi Steve, Thanks. Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No. L2532 rbrown51[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com

try this https://www.ebay.com/itm/WALTHERS-932-5853-NORTHERN-PACIFIC-50-BOXCAR-4912-KIT-HO-SCALE/382862829884?hash=item592467293c:g:I74AAOSwqoxb9bDb Steve Hile

Hi Ben, Do you happen to know the Walthers item number for that car? The replacement end with end doors has piqued my interest. Thanks, Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No.

Claus Schlund asked: "Any thoughts on the reporting marks for the 40ft single sheathed auto box car shown in the image linked below? The resolution is just not quite good

Fred, Thank you for your enlightening post. I must concede that you "have the goods" vis-a-vis at least for some of these early cars. I'm going to print out your message and

Scott, you must not have read Alice in Wonderland or you would know the difference between what something is called, what its name is called, and what its name actually is. :-)

Bruce Smith wrote: >While many have called the 3 panel door on the X29 a “CRECo” door, in reality it is not a product of the Chicago Railway Equipment Co and is more correctly called a "car

Garth & Ed and others interested in WP, Unfortunately I have never found painting & stencilling guides for the 3 series of 1937, 1945 & 1947 built WP 20001-20800 box cars. However, I posess WP

Thank you Ben. That would certainly make an interesting modeling feature. Dave Lawler

Dave Lawler asked: "What was the purpose for the stake pockets(?) on the outside of the side boards?" To hold stakes for loads taller than the sides of the gon. These are a common feature of period