I just payed folks to build mine. I have plenty of other stuff to occupy my time. Jared Harper

Charlie, I bill my empty grain boxes to elevators to be divvied out as the train crew desires. Before pickup I add a waybill with a destination. Should I be just adding a card that says "For

 Bravo! Well said Dick! Claus Schlund

I might be a bit late commenting however I was pondering about my late brother before I answered this. I’ll get back to him shortly. Brian Carlson – I thought gave a logical reply and I’ll put a

I heard from a Maker 20 years ago that he guessed only about 5% f the kits he produced were actually built at that time. So all those unbuilt kits are providing an important financial subsidy for the

Sorry, my reply was meant for the first sender, not to the group as a whole. George Courtney

Probably not the guy who said, "Death is the great leveler." ((8-) George Courtney

A few resin kits have been outdone in plastic, but not many of them. A number have been done with lower overall quality (e.g. omission of details) such as the Red Caboose PFE

I too have a layout to build, but I have surveyed all my remaining painted and lettered plastic kits and I'm trying to get the last of them built. That will probably happen this year. At least, the

I was working a lot in Kansas and Kansas City in the 1970’s and saw a lot of outbound and inbound grain moves. As Tim indicated, loads of grain would be pulled but not waybilled until the state

All of this talk about unbuilt kits got me to thinking about what is still on the shelf… At present there are 35 unbuilt resin kits + 47 unbuilt plastic kits + six kit-bashes in various stages of

Yep, just like hide cars. Wood cars were used, you just didn’t want them to leak, much. Doug

Photo: T&NO Water Tank Car No. 398 Photo from Alamy: https://tinyurl.com/39kum64x Click on the photo to enlarge it. Alamy states the photo date is May 14, 2015, but I believe that is an

Years ago this was discussed - probably still in the message archive. I'm not sure about rollers - unsold cargo - but there were single waybills in some cases that included a

Urp. One of the cars has wood sides! On 3/27/2022 1:27 PM, Bob Chaparro via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I was talking to two of my friends Jim Dick and Greg Smith who live in the St. Paul, MN area about a question I have on operations. I was chatting about the grain industry. My question is: Was grain

Lyle Hetsler commented: “I worked as a switchman in Neebing Ontario. They were often bundled up and left hanging out the door. When the empties were pulled slowly by the grain door shack they were

Yes, it took real guts to handle these cars. Not so much to model them. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

There's invest-ment, and invest-iture, Brian, and this could be the second meaning. -- Willie was a chemist, Now Willie is no more. What Willie thought was H2O Was H2SO4

Tim’s comment reminds me of when I got out of the Army, and moved back to Houston to look for work in early 1987. I went to Joseph A. Bank to buy two “interview suits” (as most of my clothing