Larry Kline asked me to post this. This looks like a great event. Prototype Modelers Seminar - East 2001 1:00 PM Friday, March 23 through 6:00 PM Saturday, March 24, 2001 Holiday Inn, Monroeville

Regarding cross posting (i.e., posting messages simultaneously to this list and FC): I dunno what the list owner prefers, so Mike, speak up here, but for myself, I *strongly* prefer people do not

I always wonder about the railroad's philosophy of ever stronger ends to deal with shifting loads. It's as if auto makers worried about making ever stronger windshields rather than sitbelts and air

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard's detective work is right on the money: the reweigh date is almost certainly the date of transfer to CDLX from PFE, as that is the month and year of the car's sale

Dave Nelson said: This is very true. My father-in-law used to work for Italian Swiss Colonies' ad agency, and the Calif. State Fair gave awards based on volume categories; the top volume included

John Nehrich writes: Whether MDC intended to model ANY protoype is unknown and, based on their track record, improbable. Most likely they were just doing another "interesting" kit using existing

They don't show up in my list of cars similar to the Red Caboose car. I would guess -- NOT. Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts

Well, I don't have the evidence to prove it but I'm inclined to say "certainly not." At any rate, we're talking about only a handful of cars here, as it's well documented that the billboard meat and

We were in Montreal for our usual anniversary celebration Christmas week when we got word of the impending snow storm at home. Got home on Saturday @ 2:30 AM only to find a box from Bob Walker w/100

Brock's Fourth Law [ or was it the third? ] of Freight Cars is broken. Previously I had been led to believe that Santa Fe reefers only traveled on UP tracks in a westward direction [ implying being

Richard - I'm not sure how much time was given to repaint the billboard schemes. I kept coming back to the one article in the '42 MR that bemoaned the total loss of these gaudy cars, and as a

John Nehrich wrote: John, I only have a couple of photos of the prototypes for the RC wine reefers, but they don't entirely confirm your conclusions. Both are W. C. Whittaker photos taken before WW

I know that the CN had straight side flats akin to the Tichy kit, but they also had cars in the 659000 series (the number Red Caboose uses). Were these also straight side cars? Did they have 12

John Nehrich wrote: Same car body, John, just assembled from separate cast metal pieces rather than one piece of styrene: rectangular panel roof, 4-5 Dreadnaught ends, (poorly rendered) AAR

Tony - I think the MDC car is an attempt to model the Santa Fe 7 panel Pratt truss cars, but on their 1937 AAR box car body. But if I remember, their earlier cast metal version had a Howe truss,

John Nehrich writes: As hard as you like, John. Beyond the 40-ft. length, I'd say the cars are totally different. Doors, BTW, are also wrong on the MDC kit; so I'd say it was about a complete miss

Richard - MDC has this version posted on their web site. Yes, I agree it would be far too wrong even the scheme is correct, but it is even "wronger" if the scheme was never used on anything other

But getting back to the original reason I asked about this - since the TW cars lasted until '49 at least, which of the Red Caboose cars might have lasted past 1938 or were repainted in more modest

Keith Jordan wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's a good deal easier to accept. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

John Nehrich wrote: Then Richard wrote: Rural dirt yellow and industrial black make Pullman Green? I wonder where Dubin came up with that notion, which I find seriously lacking in credibility.