Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Hubert Mask <maskisland@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date: Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 11:03 AM To:

Aluminum express car. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Bob Chaparro via groups.io" <chiefbobbb@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date:

I am hoping someone can help me with a project I am working on. The car is a 1945 DD boxcar, 10'6" height cars with 14' door opening (two 7' doors) that were of the interim improved youngstown design

 HI Bob, Thanks for the fascinating photo. I'm thinking, if I fill in some blanks in the photo, that the car closest to the camera possibly maybe is UTLX 629. Note that NONE of the tank cars

Bob Chaparro wrote: Bob doesn't mention it, but this is one of the Rock Island's aluminum box cars, intended for head-end BX service. Nice photo, though possibly an excessive number of women,

Don Valentine asks: What was the date the car was built? Wonder if I can squeeze one in. Don -- 10/50. I'll bet you can. Bob Chapman

Photo: Frisco Hopper 88447 (1954) A photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc218238/?q=freight%20car Photo can be enlarged quite a bit. A

Photo: Loading Oil (Undated - Early 1900s?) A photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1593835/?q=loading Photo can be enlarged quite a

Photo: SOO Boxcar 40388 (Circa 1930) A photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1120289/?q=freight%20house Photo can be enlarged quite a

Photo: Rock Island Boxcar 20060 (1945) A photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc543259/m1/1/?q=box%20car Photo can be enlarged quite a

Do you have enough data from my decal set to complete this car. Hubert Mask Mask Island Decals On Aug 8, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Craig Wilson <agecompanyphotog@...> wrote:

Shot me a photo please. Or a reference. I'll get on it. Thank you. Hubert On Aug 8, 2020, at 11:52 AM, BRIAN PAUL EHNI <bpehni@...> wrote:

Meanwhile, still waiting after 5 years for these… Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 8:01 AM This is going on my locomotive list at the top. Will see what I can do. Trying to get ready for the St.

DTI 14520 - same car in later paint scheme. Zooming in the photo I read "BUILT 10-50" on it. Craig Wilson

Regarding the Ethyl emblem, it goes back further than 1952. It was used on cars as early as 1944 and likely prior to that, as well. Printing decals for them (dekuhls in Canadian). Cheers, Ted Ted

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Ken Soroos wrote: "The last three kits on the list seem to be special Sunshine runs commissioned by RPI. They are in the same type white boxes as the Sunshine kits

Interesting fun fact about those UTLX cars – they're actually cars belonging to UTLX's Canadian subsidiary Products Tank Line of Canada, being former Canadian Industries Limited cars built by

Steve: Thanks for the research on these. I picked up one of the Ethyl black-band cars before I realized it was too late for me, but I didn't have exact dates. I don't remember the UTLX black scheme

Hi Guys - Our local hobby shop acquired an estate from a very good modeler here in Madison. Among the items available are the Sunshine kits listed below. There is little local interest, so I