Tim, 14 stake pockets is not necessarily the spotting feature! Some of the same series of flats have only 12 stake pockets. This is mentioned and evidenced by photos in the Santa Fe HS book. Sorry

Haha he must have been a Calvin & Hobbes fan ! :-D On 1/24/2023 5:16 PM, Dennis Storzek via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

The car in Jim's picture has 14 stake pockets ! It is either an Ft-P or similar car with 14 pockets. On 1/24/2023 1:54 PM, charles slater wrote: --

Builder photos were taken when convenient. Sometimes it would be the first car built, often a car somewhere in the middle, and sometimes a car near the end of a number series. Also, you need to be

Tony, note that 20000-20048 were AAR BX express box and 20050-22414 (1175 cars in my 1-1-50 ORER) were AAR XM. In both groups CMO used even numbers only. Also note that the express versions were built

It is interesting to me that a car so near the end of the series is getting a builders photo. One explanation might be that C&O was experimenting to see how a gray car would look, and more

Well, the late Larry Jackman, who used to post on this list, insisted that before the thirties there was no color in the world, every thing was shades of gray, and there was a state park someplace in

Side issue. Didn't the ATSF one have narrower planks than the standard on other War Emergency boxcars? That might rule out the Sunshine one in HO if it replicates this? -- Ben Scanlon Tottenham,

I was thinking of modeling one of the CMO cars in the 20000-22414 series and thought I had a photo for the lettering. But my photo is for one of the rebuilt cars. Does anyone have a photo to show

Years ago, a small module done this way was exhibited at an NMRA regional contest, and maybe at the National the same year. I can’t remember the modeler or the year. Maybe someone on the list will

Architects … before the current high tech tools were common … would model their concepts in white models with dried plant material providing the ‘growies’. I must confess that i have thought

Charles. Of course, you could always just model in black and white (grey tones actually). Now, before you snort in derision and suggest I might need more ventilation at my modeling bench… this

Dave Wetterstroem asked: "So I guess what I am wondering is the car in this photo white-washed just for the builders photo, a one off experimental scheme or was the entire series was

Hello Folks, Ron in his initiating post stated: "Mostly I'm interested in whether these cars were indeed off the roster by the end of this list." My children at young ages said to me after a long

I am a bit befuddled by this and am hoping that someone in this group might has information on this group of cars. In 1949 the Chesapeake and Ohio received a group of 500 covered hoppers from

Thanks Ben and everyone else who replied. It's some iteration of this Model Power car. I had already looked at the picture on page 211 of the PFE book and rejected it as the prototype to

Alternate link... for Pacificng article on paint colors http://www.pacificng.com/w/index.php?title=Historic_Railroad_Paint_Color_Index Randy Hees

Thanks everyone for your responses....quite a lot of info to peruse! The central problem, of course, is that those of us who choose to model a period before there was color photography faithful to the

Jason P (not signing his full name) wrote: Certainly looks like a World War II “War Emergency” box car, several models available. The InterMountain one is very nice. Tony Thompson

The flat car is either a Ft-I Built in 1910 or Ft-J Built in 1913 44 foot car. Here are two photos of an Ft-I 190080 Built 9-1910 in Barstow Yard in 1993 and 1994. Charlie Slater MSFM2 Sent from