Can someone tell me when the yellow sided paint scheme began? Mike

They have both, just swap out the edge frame Greg Martin Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it. Norman Maclean Sent from AOL Desktop-- Hey Boss, Somehow I got deleted from

I would appreciate those of you who have Ted Culotta’s Steam Era Freight Cars Reference Manual to turn to page 74. In the top photo of IC boxcar 16704 I see an air reservoir on the underbody under

Hello Steam Era Modeler: To celebrate National Model Railroading Month, we are pleased to announce that Westerfield Models is having a NATIONAL MODEL RAILROAD MONTH SALE! Our Sale will be in

Those are available on Shapeways and I too plan the IM Monon kitbash John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC

Walt; On the PRR most were round (all early PRR boxcars, most early flatcars, hoppers and gons), but all applications where the brake had to lock with other than something like a ratchet and pawl,

Check the group messages, this was discussed about a year ago. Bill Welch found a source of square stock suitable for brake shafts, and was giving out pieces at RPMs. I got a length from him at

This year at Lisle I heard several people discussing the need for small square stock for use as brake staff material. At the time I was thinking that the brake staffs that I had seen years ago when

Photo: MP Boxcar 85825 A fair quality photo taken in 1929: http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cs/id/8176/rec/341 Caption: Missouri Pacific boxcar number 85825 sits near

Eliminated Gould/Tichy as the tooling source of the ERTL USRA cars - I was thinking of their USRA steel rebuilds and USRA SS. RJ Dial

Mel may not have had one, but here's mine I did last year from a Westerfield kit as NWP #1957. Since I model 1939 had to leave off the cool NWP herald and roadname (shown here from Andrew's site).

Could be... That lot of Clarkson Coal Mining cars were built as composite cars (steel frame, wood sheathing). The entire lot of 500 cars went to the Soo Line in 1927, who rebuilt them with nine panel

As usual, a great looking build, Bill! Thanks for sharing and the inspiration. Jim Kubanick Morgantown WV

This is the closest I found to that car (in the photo): Steel End 500 1920 Lot 5209 CCM Co. Gondola HB-9682-36-72 (There are others - but not where I can reach them at the moment) Bob Webber

Yeah - I think that I've scanned a couple dozen of these in the last 3 weeks (scanning all H&B drawings). There's a few variants. There's this oval spiral, a more circular spiral (for house cars), a

This appears to be a Haskell & Barker proprietary end. Only used on a few series of cars, all built by H&B, the H&B drawing collection in the Pullman Library of the Illinois Railway Museum contains

Thanks for sharing, Brian! Fabulous photos. Elden Gatwood

Looking good Bill. Can't wait to see it with paint and decals. I'll copy your notes for when I build one of mine. I happen to live a stone's throw from the shop where these were originally rebuilt so

That transformer load off behind SDRX 4842 is pretty cool too! PRR 35920 is class X25. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, Al

The first image shows the B end of PRR box car 35920 including great view of Carmer cut lever. http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-11-08-19/X7985.jpg The second image shows B