Richard, What looks like "rust" turns out to be the leftover FCR paint! At first I was noticing the white around the hatches, thinking salt, and therefore thinking rust. I was wondering what iron

Dennis, Such as....? Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 12:42:55 AM, you wrote:

Tim, There is a term for those who state there are errors, but don't point them out or offer correct information . "Editor" is the nicest of those. Please share better sources. Is the author wrong

Them who knowingly spreads misinformation is just as guilty as them who creates it. ;-) As HST was fond of saying, the buck stops here! -- Tim O'Connor Sterling,

CALCIUM CARBIDE containers. Not waste, but evidently nasty stuff. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

When built, the cars were painted Harriman standard freight car maroon (described as Hershey bar wrapper brown). By the 1930s the standard color was pretty much out of the bottle Boxcar

How true that is Tim. Anyone who saw Saving Private Ryan must remember the German tank #314 only it isn't a German tank. It is a Russian T-34 with the glacis plate changed to make it look more like a

I have completed the kitbash project of the IC SS box car provided as the mini-kit at the 2019 Chicagoland RPM gathering. I have prime-painted the model and now need to finish it. Not being an IC fan

Friends, The attached photo of a container car is well beyond our era of interest. I was hoping to learn more about the car itself to see if it would barely scrape into our last year or so. The car in

Just the messenger Dennis, just the messenger. Bill Welch

If you mean ones that match the F&C kit. The answer is no, those were a unique Borden design. There were at least two GPEX cars that used a similar arrangement but were visibly different. Don

Al, If you can find a copy of John Henderson's CLASSIC FREIGHT CARS, v. 3, there are two full-page panorama shots of Swift's Sioux City yard probably taken from the roof of a near-by building, as well

Did anyone besides Borden use the butterdish style cars? Roger Huber

Bill, Hate to say it, but there are better references around, with fewer errors of both fact and interpretation. Dennis Storzek

It also looks to me like the single herald versions of the r-40-19 and r-30-21 are using the incorrect later ("fatter") UP logo dating from about june 1946 whereas the rebuild dates are from march

How about this: Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

I have an old Walthers 40' DS wood reefer with wood ends Swift 932-2428. With all the new 37' reefer models by Rapido, I began researching info on Swift reefers. I found a photo of SRLX 7045 that

Dale Minard commented... While reading the Oyster Car article (NMRA Sunrise Trail Division Cannon Ball Fall 2014 issue), I noticed that Part 2 was to be published in the following issue (Winter

Just a thought, but is this their first batch of cars out of the new factory in China? -- John

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