The recent discussions of painting and weathering reminded me of this video. Lots of freight cars but it is unusual in the number of overhead shots. Makes me think I don’t have enough galvanized

F/S: HO scale ready-to-run freight cars, late-steam/early diesel era, to receive list send an e-mail to me at: mguill1224 at aol dot com Offered by Hugh T Guillaume.

Is anyone working on rosters of Frisco freight & MOW cars? The Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive in September received some material transferred from St. Paul and this includes ledgers from the

That looks mighty good Al well done Have a great Thanksgiving Fenton

Here's mine, FWIW.

Might be something useful here: https://www.irm.org/gallery/IC40285 This looks to be the same class of car with the door opening expanded, but I have no idea when. Dennis Storzek

Tim, As Andy Carlson already stated, the issue is that the height is incorrect with the trucks that come with the cars. It is a fundamental issue with the underframe casting. Since this underframe

Andy, As I noted in my post, the Walthers car had 3-3-3 Dreadnaught ends. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Al and Friends, Richard's had two articles on the 50' SS boxcars in the July 1995 RMJ. The first article covered the prototypes, and a second was on upgrading MDC cars. He followed this up with

Hi Al- Based on your mentioning of IC 50'ers, I went to Fallen Flag and found a 1968 shot of IC 34730, a 4 + 5 panel double door SS car. This car had 5-5-7 Murphy corrugated ends, a lower side sill

Those trucks are made by Tangent Scale Models. Brian Leppert Tahoe Model Works Carson City, NV

Well done Steve, interesting bash. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

As Fenton suggests, I've done the IC 50' SS DD box from the Walthers car. Richard Hendrickson surveyed prototypes years ago, I want to say in RMJ. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Nice looking cars, Steve. Who looks at roofs (from ground level) anyway? 😊 Schuyler

Many years ago I did shorten the Walthers 50 foot car to 40 feet as part of pair of Wabash 40 footers. In the attached photo, the Walthers end doors went on to one of the old F&C kits on the left in

Yes, Tim, but the Intermountain house cars ride too high on THEIR own trucks. This has been known for a long time. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

I've been scratching my head kind of wondering what this discussion was all about... but looking at your document it seems to me that part of the issue is the trucks

I only know Leo from phone contact, but he said to me that project results in a “nearly exact” model of an EL box car. Very clever work and extremely well done. IF he had a computer, he’d be a

The Walthers car is a 'peaked' roof car while the mDC cars are radial roof cars. Not sure if the Walthers car has a prototype but it might be a starting point for the IC 50 ft OB car. Fenton --

I friend - Leo Landry - figured out to make a number of cuts into the cars to shorten them to 40 feet. His looked fine to me but I don't know if there was an exact prototype