Me too, Steve, this is nice! Too bad I didn't have this summary this past dozen or so years I've been building Santa Fe resin kits. Westerfield and Sunshine & F&C kit prototype color history were all

Jim, It appears to have the unique pattern of a Mather car in the end panel of the side. if it is M&NA, and is a Mather car, then it would be M&NA 2600-2649, Mather cars, active 7-1934 to late

"K" is the model of the Royal regulator. There's also a type F, I think. The applications I've seen were to AB brakes, although I think they'd work on schedule K brakes if so applied (Royal regulators

Hi List Members, I thought some might enjoy this partial image of steel reefer ART 47933. While the image was taken in 1965, I suspect the car was in service during this list's time period of

Schuyler It’s got AB brakes Royal K is the type of adjuster. K brakes where outlawed in interchange service in or by 1953 it kept getting pushed back, Paul Doggett. England

Thank you, Brian. Prior to the photo I’d not noted the legend “ROYAL K BRK REGL” on the side of the car. This is obviously 1948 or later, but K brakes? Were they not outlawed by then? (I

The January 1954 edition of the ORER lists 150 cars in the series 441000-441499 with 67 having extreme outside width of 10’7” while the remainder were 11’. All have 6 foot door openings.

Rob, Double doors - 10' opening, according to the ORER. Andy

Thanks, Steve, for a great summary. Carefully saved this for future reference. Schuyler

In case anyone else is building one of the F&C kit no.6650 models and wonders what decals are appropriate, I eventually made a breakthrough this evening. I have not exhausted possible CV prototypes,

The last Bx-12's in revenue service were in 1974. So certainly AB brakes. I believe most of the received steel sheathing. Jim Gates

Great photo, did these cars get AB brakes and survive till? Todd Horton

FYI , I offer that decal for the ACF and Pullman car. 100 years. Nice photo. Hubert Mask Mask Island Decals Inc.

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/utils/ajaxhelper/?CISOROOT=p15330coll22&CISOPTR=55053&action=2&DMSCALE=100&DMWIDTH=7000&DMHEIGHT=600081 Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From:

The full resolution file: http://digital.denverlibrary.org/utils/ajaxhelper/?CISOROOT=p15330coll22&CISOPTR=46500&action=2&DMSCALE=100&DMWIDTH=7000&DMHEIGHT=600081 Thanks! -- Brian Ehni

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 1:53 PM Hugh Guillaume via groups.io <mguill1224@...> wrote: 1956 ORER has been sold. Thank you! HTG

Andy, here is a link to a Rock Island car photographed by John Vashon at the Minneapolis Pillsbury "A" Mill. https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8a04504/ and the photo at a much higher

Schuyler writes regarding oversize gaps on modeled cars: Are we only talking to ourselves here? I think that it is very possible that we are. And then there could be the same who feel that even

Schuyler, until you called this out I had never noticed this X-bracing either. Of the cars found in this grouping I do not recall seeing a larger image of this car. Looking back again there

The Tichy USRA boxcar really sets the standard for planking on boxcar sides in my humble opinion. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿