Friends, Just back from the Shenandoah Valley Model Train Show in Virginia. On one of the modular layouts a 'vested interest" was running a train of 77 billboard beer

Lester, it looks like a kit roof. Maybe if you tell us which kit, the someone may know which roof it should be. What I see looks like a F&C casting intended to be a Hutchins roof. Bill Welch

I’m building the Sunshine C-16, and I’d like to learn about the box in the upper center of the A end shown in the attached photo. It appears that it’s got an electrical conduit through the end,

At the beginning of 1945, Phillips listed 2679 cars in the ORER Three years later, the listing no longer includes the ARA III and ICC 103 cars and is reduced to 668 cars. This list remained in

What roof type is in the enclosed photo? My best guess is a Chicago-Cleveland Flexible Outside Metal roof. Thank You for your time and effort to help in advance. Lester Breuer

If you carefully examine the photo you will see that the verticals (both on the sides and ends) are all Z-brace supports which gives the car a unique look. (in an earlier response I mistakenly noted

Looks like 7-10 IH -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I found a Mather stock car that I'd done when the kits were new, and it has wire grab irons, plus uncoupling levers, that I must have applied. Then I looked at a couple kits that I bought on eBay

People ask me about Barge cement. I recently used it to attach a couple of boxcar roofs so it's the latest post on my DesignBuildOp

Acc to Sunshine's info they had both the 10'3" and 7'8" ones. Best I can tell the P2K is a 8'5" car numbered for the 7'8" ones and in white lettering.. Martin said that series had yellow lettering.

Perhaps the tangent insulated tank car could be a starting point for a LNG car as in this article featured years ago on the Resin Car Works blog. http://resincarworks.com/RwyRev_Type22design.pdf As to

Curious question, Wade Phillips any relation to the NFL coach? Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Thank you once again Doug. What is shown in your 4th and 7th photos is exactly what I'm looking for. Tim seems to have most of it from his Champ decal set but I'd like to have the Phillips reporting

Doug's photo of PSPX 13206 could lead to a reasonable kitbash of the Athearn "Chemical" tank car. Its underframe is nominally like the GATX Type 30. A new, correctly sized valve casing (not an

These were the oldest cars in the fleet, and I believe that many riveted shell cars were not leaded back but Ihave been u able to verify completely. Tom Birkett, Bartlesville Sent via the Samsung

According to GATC: A History of the General American Transportation Corporation, GATC purchased 2046 tank cars from Phillips Petroleum in 1945. I would guess this was a lease-back arrangement. Jim

All: I managed the PPCo tank car fleet after the end of this group, but do know some of the history. The first refinery was at Borger, TX the same you Phillips started selling gasoline at retail

Champ HT-66 -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Nicely done. What decals did you use. Lloyd Keyser

Unfortunately correct decals for tank cars often don't exist. Champ HT-66 Philgas is for a GATC tank car. And of course the lettering is far from correct even for that prototype. :-( Tim O' --