Ah but WHICH tidewater version?? :-D Tim O'Connor -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I offer the tidewater version of the flying A tank car. Hubert Mask Maskislanddecals.com

Microscale 87-874 https://sidetrackhobby.com/products/460-87874 -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Tony Thompson has a page devoted to the Associated Flying A Oil Company at his Modeling the SP website: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2013/12/associated-oil-company-background.html If you google

Your welcome, Nelson. I will check my early RPC's as they give a little more detail on roof , running board and lateral colors. Rich

Thanks, Elden. I try to get color pictures for all of the cars I build, but that’s hasn’t always been possible. I’ve pretty much filled in all of the PRR cars I can use by buying RTR, but

Thanks, Rich. I have two ATSF steel cars in the stash, so I made a note not to paint the running boards and latitudinals. Nelson Moyer

I know from what I have seen, the Santa Fe did not paint their running boards and laterals, at least on the steel ones. Rich Christie

Nelson; Speaking from experience with PRR, it was all over the place in their case. The P&L instructions were confusing: some paint shops did it differently from the “everybody”

Thanks, Ed. I’ll paint the running boards and latitudinals black along with the roof. That simplifies construction and painting. Nelson Moyer

Tony, I'd sure like a copy too please. George A wee bit north of the Clearwater Car Shops

I had a conversation with Ed this weekend about this very topic on Pullman Standard cars. One thing Ed pointed out to me was the cost of car cement vs paint. Paint was $2.10ish a gallon, car cement

Nelson, As a general rule, the car cement was applied directly to the galvanized roof sheets & seam caps after they had been cleaned so they were free of rust, dirt, and grease. It was relatively

Forgive me if I am late to the party, but there are some detail photos of URTX 89011 Milwaukee on pages 29-31 and GARX 9999 EJ&E on pages 32-39 of Focus on Freight Cars Vol. 11. J. Stephen

I have several questions about use of car cement on freight car roofs. Was it applied directly to galvanized roofs or were roofs painted before application of car cement? Were running boards and

I do have many photos of these cars, however, including a larger version of what Tim posted (89078). Thanks! -- Brian Ehni

Looked thru my MILW photos and found I did not take a photo of what I thought I had. There was an old express box in Austin, MN, that day, but I only got one end of it. And my model is an NJI

Tony, I'd sure like a copy too please. I'll be running Flying A tank cars from the Associated Oil dock in Seattle on my currently under construction layout. Doug Paasch

Thanks Tony: Bill Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

I have a good one, Bill, but am away from home this weekend. Tony Thompson