step looks shorter and closer to the end of the side sill, thus putiing the hand grap in a differen position than normal, why the different position of the step? mel perry

Because the left-opening door would contact (smush) the grabs if they were mounted completely on the car side. Todd Sullivan.

same series of cars mel perry

Grab Irons Extensions This boxcar appears to have extension mounts for the grab irons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/28555987@N06/8253849334/in/album-72157632195829152/ And a few

WB looks too long as well. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

Wrong mini-kit. The one you want is the DSS&A box car with 10-6 5/5 S corner ends. :-) I suggest using the ends as masters for making copies. Sunshine also made 10-6

Tim, I mentioned to Tim yesterday, that the ends were "W" corner not square and posted a link to Steam Era Freight Cars for the PDF on the modified height cars Rich Christie

Bill this is all I have -- 1923D B&M XM-1 steel w/ reverse Creco door BMO B&M XM-1 reverse Creco door BM1 B&M XM-1 ribbed roof, Youngstown door BM1A

WABASH series 90000 to 90549 were welded box cars with 8 foot doors built by ACF in 1960. The N&W lettered cars simply had a "3" prefix applied to the car number. And some cars

The use of hog fuel in the earlier era was generally for fuel in the boilers of sawmills. Later, some was burned in Tee Pee burners along with shavings and sawdust, though shavings became useful for

Tim - solution is the SUNSHINE mini-kit which included those ends. -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

The TICHY is a little too old, and the ATHEARN (attached) a little too modern? Tim O'Connor -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Clark, We do. They will come out as I get time to work on them, and those are really filler jobs between large projects. Dennis Storzek

Dennis Thank you very much for the information on the mold history for what sounds like a series of Milwaukee rib sided cars from Accurail. I have absolutely no complaint about the molded on grabs

Hello, Folks... Attached is a spreadsheet in which the 25,000 New Haven wood-sheathed, steel underframe cars built 1902-1912 are documented. They were all retired from service by 10-1950. There is a

I have to ask Dennis, do you have tooling for the other models. Short ribbed 40' and 50' cars? Thanks for bring these back out! CW Propst

To Bob Witt, Thanks so much for posting Chris Barkan's sheet on B&O hopper lettering diagrams and thanks to Chris fr developing it. For whatever reason in northern Vermont we seemed to see more B&O

Robert Kirkham wrote: "Well, I don’t have a list, but I do have kits: the CPR mini-box and the CPR big Otis gon." The CPR "Big Otis" gon was originally a Rensselaer Railroad Shop kit. Ben Hom

Friends, The attached photos are of an N&W MoW boxcar I photographed in the 1990s at Elkton, Virginia. As the detail photo shows, this car was "built" in 1960, so it fits within our period of

Well, I don’t have a list, but I do have kits: the CPR mini-box and the CPR big Otis gon. Rob