Great pictures, thanks for sharing. Which plastic model making company offered the CMStP&P flatcar in HO scale. It likely was in the 1960s. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

It is interesting to see these cars both used with this giant load. I have the builder's photos for Erie 7210, and three photos of CMStP&P 67053.

Group; You can see the F41 side sill taper and depth of bolster-to-end-sill depth better, plus the unusual deck arrangement, in these pics. Elden Gatwood

Brian; The Walthers car certainly does represent a casting much better. I had no idea it was coming when I did my Tichy bash, otherwise, I would have waited. Elden Gatwood

garth: ;-) not to worry, i've been called worse, i gather from looking at epay and amazon that this issue is one of the OOP collector items , $150 seems to be the going price, any chance i can appeal

Mel, My apologies for misnaming my answer to your query. Garth 🦆 On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 3:53 PM Garth Groff and Sally Sanford via groups.io <mallardlodge1000@...> wrote:

Eric, Erection drawings are on page 25 of RPC 27. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

does anyone know if drawings/plans were ever published for this car, i've gone thru kalmbach's search engine, google and my tsc's and have struck out, i'm trying to get the dims for the triangular

Instructions have been posted for the decal and detail combo sets to transform Atlas HO scale offset hoppers to follow C&EI and MP prototypes. Thank you for your patience as these details came

Guys; I can’t believe you didn’t jump all over the PMcK&Y gon! It is fabulous! You’ve got a great starting point: the Westerfield P&LE gon. The diagonal load securing is very do-able.

Bob Chaparro asked: "Photo: Wabash Boxcar 62232 (Undated) Photo from the State Historical Society Of

Photo: Wabash Boxcar 62232 (Undated) Photo from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/41041/rec/9 Scroll on the photo to enlarge

Photo: St. Louis, Peoria & Northern Boxcar 1201 (Undated) Photo from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/36321/rec/7 Scroll on

Photo: Again, Loading Coal Into Boxcars? (Circa 1904) Photo from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/15614/rec/19 Possibly

Here's a link to a partial photo of SCCX 682 - a tank car at NW St. Helens and Doane Aves in Portland, OR in 1937. The photo can be

Elden That’s probably why I never completed the F41 project, different casting. Brian J. Carlson

Brian, all; PRR had no GSC flat cars of the “Commonwealth” design, but did own F41 classes that had a slightly different casting that had a different side tapers, a shallower sill outside the

Thanks, and when I rejoin my books I'll check it. Ron Merrick

In the fisheye lens effect, the N&W gon is almost fully hidden behind the UP auto boxcar. I wonder if it is the next in line for the unloading conveyor by the gon (possibly also N&W) hidden by the

The image with the fisheye lens effect features a Frisco boxcar with an 11-41 weigh stencil. Some of the same cars are in each image. The N&W gondola with the chunky coal/coke load only appears