OK guys, at the risk of sounding like the hack that I am, I developed a method years ago of digitizing slides in a hurry. The resulting photo is usually needed for a model in process. I have a

Rob, GTW boxcars were typically in 6-figure number series. Do you mean 583000? I see 8'4" door 573000-series auto cars (axle loading), and 583200-series 10'6" door cars in the 1950 ORER. Andy L.

Rob, From Ian Cranstone's web site: http://www.nakina.net/cdn/gtw.html Jim Brewer

Rob, From Ian Cranstone's web site: http://www.nakina.net/cdn/gtw.html Jim Brewer

Rob, This series of boxcars is discussed in the article "Modeling 40-Foot CN Steel-Frame Box Cars, Part III, Type E Cars In HO Scale From Steam Shack Kits" by Stafford Swain in the February 2001

Just realized my first e-mail, (repeating a typo on the F&C site), used a 5 digit number, not the 6 digits series on the decals or in the ORER. So maybe I'm only flagging my mistake, (but hoping

Charlie, This is an interesting alternative, although it only works for 35mm slides. It came up on the RR Historical Society SIG group. Credit to Jeff Eggert over at

Hi there - Needing some help with ORERs around 1946 for this model. Working on a kit and started to work with the decals. I had three cars in various stages and had put the decals in a safe place -

This struck an odd note and sure enough, my post 163462 has a partial image of a car with "New Plastic Roof" and some numbers in roughly the same position on the car

I believe those are Murphy roofs. The 3000-series Rio Grande boxcars were extensively rebuilt about this time in the 1920's. This roughly coincided with the addition of the larger Mikados & other

All three cars are stenciled as rebuilt in 1924 - same as the date on the "New Roof" stencil. It appears that the new roof was applied as part of a rebuilding of the boxcars. The

Garth 16F-5 yes I don't know what it means - but the car has a 16 foot wide door opening - could it handle 5 autos inside? -- Tim

Photo: Wabash Boxcar 7702 (1957) A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/67226/rec/34 Click on the arrows in the upper right

Photos: "New Roof" Stencil (1945-1946) Photos from the Denver Public

Bob Chaparro asked, “Was the white stripe requirement ever dropped?” Not within the timeframe of this list. I doubt it was ever dropped, the cars simply fell out of favor as railroads

My NMRA reprint of the 1/53 ORER has all of this info on page 721 just preceding a 9 page listing of all cars for all roads so equipped. Check your ORER’s of that period. Bill Darnaby

Bought too many of the wrongs kinds of cars when I began my own, personal "Reefer Madness." Five kits available: Kit 1224 SOO Car# 50083 1201 URTX/Milwaukee

Garth Groff wrote: “What I didn't see mentioned in this thread (or missed) is the coding on and below the strip. Did this indicate the make and model of vehicle for which these racks were

Right (memory:-[). I got the trucks as a separate item. My car just sits on the trucks (prototype style), no screws. Found the trucks on "hoseeker.net", Lamount

When I see the bulbous end I think loading/ unloading must have been very rough... ;-) Johannes Modeling the early postwar years up to about 1953 Gesendet: Freitag, 20. November 2020 um 17:13