Hi Tom, Would you tell us how wide the West Rail casting is? Surprised to see the tack board seems to be cast in place. Staffan Ehnbom

Hello- I am offering for purchase 5 HO Intermountain RTR Northern Pacific black coal hoppers. IM #47152 47152-01 NP 70203; 47152-02 NP 70222; 47152-03 NP 70259; 47152-04 NP 70304; 47152-06 NP

On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 11:36 AM, Greg Martin wrote: All, In my collection I have a mold/master that Richard Hendrickson had made of a 3-3-3 end for West Rails. I will dig it out and see the spec's

Wanted Sunshine Kits: 37.9, 37.11 or 39.12 DL&W 4650 series DS 40’ Boxcar 37.10 LV 60000 series DS 40’ Boxcar 97.1,

There is also one located in Montrose, IA. I have been unable to find my pictures. From what I recall it’s in need of some paint and didn’t have a visible number. Lenny Ohrnell

All, In my collection I have a mold/master that Richard Hendrickson had made of a 3-3-3 end for West Rails. I will dig it out and see the spec's on it, but it will have to be after Cocoa Beach. Greg

But it would be so much easier to just tear open a plastic baggie! Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

I'll have to look and see if I can find one of those cars to take a look at the ends. Train Miniature did some 3/3/3 ends but they are way short. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

It's a Miner "Ideal" lever hand brake. A co-worker of mine at BB&N Technologies (Cambridge, MA) was a descendent of the Miner family. We used to talk trains

ALL box cars built after WW II ended had steel running boards. The first PS-1 box cars were built after 1945. -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

there must be two of these cars in museums, i remember another photo, except that car had loading doors on the "A" end mel perry

Richard, I'm not sure they are up to even the lowest standards of today, but a 3/3/3 Dreadnaught was used on Tyco 50' plug door boxcars. Why I don't know. I cut some away for possible later use from

Brian, No, all were steel. The earliest PS-1 box cars built starting in 6-47 (LV 62000-62499) came with Apex Tri-lok running boards & brake steps. In addition to Apex that had widespread use on PS-1s,

In my parts stashI have a few laser kit packages of wooden runningboards for Intermountain PS-1 box cars. Were any PS 1 box cars delivered with wooden running boards? Brian J. Carlson

Hmmn,And no end numbers,Armand Premo

This is very likely one of the cars that for years sat along the back of the Alcoa Aluminum plant in Lafayette, Indiana and that I saw on my trips to and from Purdue 50 years ago. They got scattered

richard: do what the old timers did, slice & dice :-) mel perry

I wish a good 3/3/3 end were available.

and a radial roof to boot mel perry

Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194 Three photos taken in Atlanta, Illinois from the Railroad Prototype Modeler