Garth; I agree that there would have been pools of cars doing this, but I have not found dedicated cars by the PRR that did this. The dedicated cars mostly had racks, so had to be in dedicated

 Hi Jim and List members, Thanks again Jim for the great image. Here are some enlargements of areas I found interesting... This box car is having a problem with its door - I dare someone to

 Hi Jim and List members, Thanks again Jim for the great image. Here are some enlargements of areas I found interesting... This Rock Island stock car has an off-center door - see attached

Dave, This is a great description. Another facet we most often overlook is how colour changes with scale. The military modellers (aircraft in particular) seem to understand this and lighten the

 Hi Jim and List members, Thanks Jim for the great image, I've spent some enjoyable time looking more closely at what there is to see - I will address this in some further emails on the topic...

Aren’t the double sheathed cars slightly wider at the car ends? Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Thank you for the excellent detailed explanation. I learned a lot. Thank you again. Bill S

Jim, Auto makers were voracious buyers of tires, and I expect there were pools between major tire makers and auto plants. They needed reliable on-time deliveries, to keep production running. It would

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 04:44 PM, Bruce Smith wrote: "Sorry, but you’ve “triggered” me. Please save us from the pseudo-science babble of people like your optometrist friend." What Bill

I believe tires used to come individually wrapped. And they are certainly not as prone to damage as most car parts. I would think that any reasonably clean boxcar would be suitable for tires. Jim

If the 7200-series Accurail car this is designed to fit has a 9'2" IH, then a Pere Marquette 86000-series double-sheathed boxcar becomes a reasonable project, using these ends, a Hutchins roof and

F/S: HO scale freight car kits by Branchline, Bowser and Intermountain; to receive lists send e-mail to Hugh T Guillaume at: mguill1224 at aol dot com

I looked up the Reading car in the ORER and it is listed as a FW, a well hole car. I use the classification in the title of photos I download. Bob Amsler St. Louis, Missouri

Folks, The Fall, 2020 issue (#114) of The Keystone Modeler is now available on the PRRT&HS web site at: http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/newPRRKeystoneModeler.htm A gentle reminder - If you don't

Where does one go to see his paintings? On-line, I see images that are affected by all the challenges we speak about whenever sharing colour information. Rob

Amen, Elden Gatwood

Tim, Then does that mean that the Western Pacific really didn't order 100 PS-1 double-door boxcars with Evans Auto Loaders in 1955, their 19301-19400? Or again in 1955, another 150 numbered

Let me remind everyone that we do have a superb source of color information about PRR freight cars from the 1940s and 1950s: the Grif Teller calendar paintings. Teller was a skilled and experienced

The Rob Adams article in Culotta's Prototype Railroad Modeling book includes Arnt Gerritsen's drawings of one of the AA 74000-series cars. A photo of the actual car Arnt and I measured is attached.

Nature of color and perception well described, Bruce:This excellent book covers color and perception for those who may want additional detail, and I do not think it has been recommended here before.