If you have knowledge of InterMountain (IM) Santa Fe stock car kits 42999 or 42998, I would appreciate sharing information. The former with K brake system and latter AB brake system. The kits are

MDC/Roundhouse. I have some On 2022-07-19 10:36 a.m., Bob Chapman wrote:

Yes Bob, that is the MDC kit. There were articles on bashing them into meat reefers. I'll try to find my copies and email them to you if you want them Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst

Just catching up with all the responses. Appreciate the Branchline history lesson! Per request, here are photos of the kit (I had already stripped the vintage billboard

Robert, Thanks, can you provide the link to the page this is on? Mike Palmieri - Aubrey, Texas

Group, Nothing like sending without proof reading. Try this: If it is desired to have a black roof and hopper bottoms, the painting is not hard. It is even easier if the car is put in the freezer

Jerry, No can do on nailing down the paint scheme on these cars. Al Hoffman is the source of the cars having black roofs and hopper bottoms in the RP Cyc 30 article. It would be nice if there was

I was looking at the wrong time. They’re about 8 mins in. Clark Propst Mason City Iowa

Hey Eric, can you point me to the source of your information about the cars originally arriving with black roofs and tops and the repainting to mineral red? I'd like to nail this down. Jerry Michels

Just to chime in on these cars. We worked closely with the BRHS and InterMountain, and the consensus was to have them in the all-mineral red scheme. If they originally had black roofs and bottoms,

Yes, you have it right about the beaded siding. By "V" groove are you talking about beveled edges of the boards so that when they are joined together there is a shallow

Thanks -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

That came out to small. I try again as an attachment. Robert Bogie On 20/07/2022 12:32 am, robertb@... wrote:

Mike, This is the explanation from the Canada Southern website:- Robert Bogie On 19/07/2022 11:57 pm, Michael Palmieri wrote:

One of their craziest shows yet, but the show their resin kits at about 20 mins in...I think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTVVKPnNgN0&t=29s Clark

Charlie, Other way around. They came out of the shop with black car cement. The color picture on p99 of RP Cyc 30 is in original paint and clearly shows a black roof and black hopper bottoms. Eric

I’ve come across an ACF builder’s photo from March 1926 of an NYC boxcar numbered S-96012. What is the significance of the letter S? Mike Palmieri – Aubrey, Texas

Eric Reading your posting I’m reading the cars came delivered in overall mineral red and the railroad later applied the black cement to the roof and outlet gates? -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Charlie, The only color picture in original paint of these cars that I am aware of is in RP Cyc 30 on p99. Better pictures of the later red post 1958 paint scheme are in there and Burlington Bulletin

Bill, I have 2 of these covered hoppers and they will need some touch-up when I am done. The color is almost identical to the custom run of old Eastern Car Works cars I had done almost 30 years ago.