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Photo: CTH&SE Gondola With Load

Photo: CTH&SE Gondola With Load This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fv0w55 Photo taken in 1926. The gondola belongs

By Bob Chaparro · #168351 ·

Photo: Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway Tank Car & Boxcar

Photo: Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway Tank Car & Boxcar This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: Tank

By Bob Chaparro · #168350 ·

Photo: Early 1900s Frisco Boxcar

Photo: Early 1900s Frisco Boxcar This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6hm5hw4 The photo was taken in 1907. Bob

By Bob Chaparro · #168349 ·

Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar

Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66138c3 Does anyone have an educated guess (as

By Bob Chaparro · #168348 ·

Photo: PFE/WP Reefer

Photo: PFE/WP Reefer This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tj05h8 Visible among the reefers is PFE 50092, one of the

By Bob Chaparro · #168347 ·

Re: More ATSF Sk-O Questions

Frank Ellington's book Stock Cars of the Santa Fe Railway, has a drawing of class Sk-O on page 77 and a cross-section drawing on page 78, there are also photos of Sk-O 68000 side and end on page 24..

By Allan Smith <smithal9@...> · #168346 ·

Offered two IntermountainR-40-10 decorated PFE reefer kits

If accuracy is wanted, I have 2 Intermountain HO Pacific Fruit Express reefer kits for R-40-10 steel ice bunker refrigerator cars. IM # 41702P-35 PFE Double Herald car with Union Pacific colored

By Andy Carlson · #168345 ·

Re: CN bcr

Yeah! That’s the one lol Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

By Pierre Oliver · #168344 ·

Re: CN bcr

Clark, Here’s a prototype photo that shows definitively the exact color CN boxcars should be

By Marty McGuirk · #168343 ·

Re: PFE reefer kits R-40-20

Tim, The only PFE 40-ft steel reefers that I know Sunshine did were the R-40-10 and the R-40-26. The R-40-14 and R-40-20 are very similar, with the -20 being 1-1/2 inches taller. I would make an

By Dick Harley · #168342 ·

Re: PFE reefer kits R-40-20

Dick It just occurred to me that Sunshine never did an R-40-20 either, did they? I always thought it was just the ends that needed to be replaced (which Details West offered)... :-( -- *Tim

By Tim O'Connor · #168341 ·

Op session on the Alma branch

It has been months since I hosted an op session on my Alma branch layout. I hope to resume monthly op sessions in January. For those of you not familiar with my layout it is 22 1/2'x30' in HO scale

By Jared Harper · #168340 ·

Re: Offered: 2 Intermountain steel PFE reefer kits R-40-20 Overland herald

Intermountain is the "King Of Foobies". Francis A. Pehowic, Jr. On Saturday, November 30, 2019, 7:29:05 PM UTC, Dick

By rdgbuff56 · #168339 ·

Re: Offered: 2 Intermountain steel PFE reefer kits R-40-20 Overland herald

For those that care about prototype accuracy, it should be pointed out that these kits are pretty bogus. The car body is the InterMountain PFE R-40-23, so the ends, doors and underframe are not

By Dick Harley · #168338 ·

Re: CN bcr

To my eye the CN single sheath box cars seem to be a lighter (dustier?) shade of boxcar re with the ones spending more time in the east showing a light blackish tint,( probably due to dirtier

By Walter Cox <WaltGCox@...> · #168337 ·

Re: CN bcr

CN had a tightly-controlled standard pallette of colours, and in this case the standard colour was Red #11, which was a reddish version of brown. As the colour aged, the reddish tone faded and the car

By Ian Cranstone · #168336 ·

Re: CN bcr

Doug Harding wrote: "The CN historical society once sold correct color paint." http://www.cnrha.ca/node/966 These are available in Scalecoat and Scalecoat II. Scroll to page

By Benjamin Hom · #168335 ·

Re: CN bcr

True but I believe Clark does not like acrylic paint. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

By Douglas Harding · #168334 ·

Re: CN bcr

Yup They sure did I have a large supply Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

By Pierre Oliver · #168333 ·

Re: CN bcr

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 08:57 PM, Douglas Harding wrote: The CN historical society once sold correct color paint. http://www.cnrha.ca/node/966 Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org Modelflex

By Bill Welch · #168332 ·

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