Bill I agree. I thought about the Acccurail roof; however, changed my mind. This afternoon, I installed the kit roof and scribed grooves between the roof ribs and in the grooves installed Plastruct

Well actually it is what Steve thinks is a Hutchins roof. If you have an Accurail model w/their excellent Hutchins roof, it can be used to help detail the F&C roof: "V" like crimps on the very ends of

Indeed, that is an Illinois Central 50-foot automobile boxcar. I don’t know why it lacks doors. CB&Q is to the right and a partial UP car finishes the 50-foot cars. The weathering variations on the

One local layout owner, who's layout is a geographically oriented freelance set in 1952, has a Shay locomotive set off to the side with an 85-ft double-plug-door high-cube boxcar attached that will be

Hi List Members, There were not a lot of 50 foot boxcars around in 1929, but there were some. Here is a nice view of three different ones, all gathered together at the extreme right side of the

Yes, the cars with ice hatches are Lackawanna Railroad milk cars, insulated and equipped for carrying cans. Mike Del Vecchio

Claus, those appear to me to be silk cars. Not milk. Some railroads ran them as expedited freight in special one-commodity trains. I remember reading about them some years ago in one of the magazines

Hi List Members, Are the cars in the links below some type of milk car? Thoughts? http://www.railfan.net/lists/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-04-17-19/X6578.jpg

Garth, Bruce might well weigh in on the palatablity of said advertised brews. Jeff and Mike might find the keys should said Vesty promulgate his future craft beers here. I may agree with the

It looks like an attempt at a Murphy flat panel roof. Nelson Moyer

Bill Welch wrote, “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

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