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Jerry, So where would I find an accessible copy of Bill's Modeling the AAR-ARA Standard Steel Boxcar.pdf? Todd Sullivan

Thanks for the update, Doug. Understanding the meat reefer fleets of the 1920s, beyond Armour and Swift, has been a challenge. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Thanks for the info, Doug! The same question popped into my mind as I reviewed that image. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

The box for the Santa Fe car says Bx-63 - the model is lettered Bx-50. Did you modify it or ?

Be sure to reference Bill Welch's Modeling the AAR_ARA Standard Steel Boxcars.pdf It has some MP/I-GN specific details

In the May 1997 issue of Railmodel Journal, p 12, Richard Hendrickson writes “In the late 50s, in order to supply some of its leasing customers larger cars, Mather built some 50-foot cars with

Bob, the trucks contain a Protzellers Fairmont-Goodyear rubber block spring produced by the Fairmont Railway Motor Co. Which apparently did not sell. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Eric, according to the caption in the Billboard Refrigerator Cars book p. 180, the car was built by General American at their E Chicago shop. But the caption also contains errors giving the wrong

This is what the Frick hopper looked like brand new in 1905.

Sanding the round model bolt heads lightly makes them look more like flat heads. Mark Vinski

Eric and all My mistake on saying GLc as it should have been, GLa. Thanks for the information and the article from RMJ Larry Smith On

Photos: UP Company Service Boxcar 912040 (Former Express Boxcar 9149) A photo from the Denver Public

6000-gal car, 173-gal dome, GA-built. There's a 1926 TROX 3-compartment car in Kaminski's tank car book with elbow valve, but no other examples from the 1920s spring to mind. No other Class III TCX

1923 is fairly late for a safety valve elbow, but the dome is rather skinny. David Thompson

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 02:27 PM, Tony Thompson wrote: . . . the regular flat head one as used for flatcar decking, and possibly other freight car uses . . . For HO modeling purposes, it reduces to a

Yet model flat cars continue to have raised bolt heads on decks . . . Tony Thompson tony@...

Thanks for taking the time to dig up this information, Richard. It helps! This is the sort of useful, primary source information I was looking for, and does firm up at least a design date of 1952 for

I agree that primary sources would be best, but the ideal primary material - the Mather records - likely do not exist. A wonderful alternative would be an article from Railway Age or similar

You learn something every day from sites like this. I'd never heard of a plow bolt before. I looked these up and it turns out there is an American standard for them, ASME B18.9. That means something