Friends, SDRX is the reporting mark used by Sinclair. This photo is obviously before the giant silver "Sinclair" was spelled out across the car sides. T

Bob Chaparro wrote: Good illustration of why it's hard to model a refinery realistically. <g> Tony Thompson tony@...

Same here. I usually even put the shouldered screws and springs with the trucks. Tony Thompson tony@...

Garth Groff wrote: The original P2k releases were ALL based on Richard Hendrickson's recommendations. In their last years, a few foobles crept in, and with Walthers -- well. But you can trust the

A couple of additional notes. 1) Remember that stock cars carried more than stock, so their appearance could be to carry a different cargo. 2) Not all stock movements were to slaughter. There were

On the Santa Fe, the GENERAL practice at feeding stations was to send foreign cars home empty and move the stock to Santa Fe cars if empty cars were available. I don’t think I have seen any examples

Photo: T&P Gondola 17695 (1938) A photo from the New York Public Library: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/59bab700-bf76-0136-e236-0ef34241574b This image can be enlarged. Bob

Photo: Many Tanks Cars (Undated) A photo from the New York Public Library: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-ab85-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 This image can be enlarged. Note two

Photo: GATX 18321/Sunburst Refining (Undated) A photo from the New York Public Library: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-b610-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 This image can be

RE: Switching Livestock Cars It is my understanding that livestock unloaded for feed/water/rest were to be returned to the same car from which they were unloaded. This was a disease control

Tony, Before anyone cringes about my "getting rid of" the brass trucks on my brass models, rest assured they are safely stashed in the original boxes. I guess I unknowingly am making it easier for

Never thought about this before… As the livestock need to be rested/watered/fed every so often, would (assuming the stock cars were off the “home” road) the road “resting” the

Ray and Friends, I forgot to mention that RAILMODEL JOURNAL had articles on the Mather stock cars in their February, May and November 1997 issues. All were written by Richard Hendrickson, and so were

Ray, The Proto 2000 car is a Mather design, and most of these were leased out by Mather to various railroads, sometimes on a long term basis. NP and GN both used Mather stock cars besides their own

Hello, I'm curious about something about the Proto 2000 stock car that I'm interested in buying from my LHS. So most of the models seem to be painted and modeled after WWII. What modifications can I

Dear group Attached please find the picture I referred to in my previous post- A Pere Marquette all wood single sheathed auto/box car, perhaps a converted stock car? Larry King

I’ll post some when I make some more progress. At this point, in addition to a bunch of Canadian cars, I’m thinking I will look at a couple of kit bashes looking at the DMIT, MKT, MP and Frisco

This is an unusual car- an all wood single sheathed boxcar. Could it be a wood stock car converted to meet a shortage of box cars? I recall seeing a similar Pere Marquette car in the Steamtown DL&W

I also have Accurail 4300 series that I'm going to turn into a CB&Q prototype. I've been slowly removing molded-on grabs and other details that don't fit with the prototype. I hope to see your own

Mont Switzer wrote: I would guess a solid majority of my brass freight cars have been re-trucked -- a few of my commercial styrene cars also . . . not mentioning names. As I mentioned, I