Thanks Ben. They bought 1000 40 ton boxcars from Pullman Standard in 1940, 20000-20999. The drawing in the diagram book doesn't show as many panels as the FandC model. Here's a photo, 10

Jeff White asked: "Are these the "kit cars" PS sold to the railroads prior to the PS1s? I have some documentation the IC bought some and built them at their Centralia Car Shops in

Clark Propst asked: "Didn't want to put PS-0 in the subject line. A friend is building the old green dot kit which only has the main body pieces. I had good photo of the CGW and NKP cars. I searched

Are these the "kit cars" PS sold to the railroads prior to the PS1s? I have some documentation the IC bought some and built them at their Centralia Car Shops in 1947. Jeff White

Didn't want to put PS-0 in the subject line. A friend is building the old green dot kit which only has the main body pieces. I had good photo of the CGW and NKP cars. I searched my magazine collection

After 1951 :-) On 1/25/2023 11:10 AM, ottokroutil via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Thank you for the photos. Good info. A question from this west coast, pre-'51 modeler: when did the C&NW start using the large lettering? Feedback appreciated! Otto K. Sent from the all new AOL app

I think the “mixing local pigment with linseed oil” has been stated too frequently. I feel it is a generalization and verges on hobby myth. I will admit this may have been a regular process on

Here is the paint information I have -- All of these are AAR 10-6 5/5 ends 6ft doors Viking roof cars 1941=1942 CMO 20000-22414 Mineral Red

That's cool. My Dad photographed this one (no idea of the class designation) ATSF 190198 in 1978 in Barstow. It has 13 stake pockets ! On 1/24/2023 7:59 PM, Jim Eager

There is a layout in California that is done in black & white. It was on tour for the 2019 NMRA convention in Sacramento. It was a layout based on the Hetch Hetchy railroad. Here is Youtube video

Look at where the light is coming from - upper left - you can tell by the shadows of the ladder rungs. That means the ribs on the end are convex toward the coupler (protruding out of the car), since

Hi Tony; If you are modeling the as-built CMO 20050-21398 (even numbers) series cars with the "Route of the 400" slogan, my notes indicate that the ends were same freight car red/brown as the sides

Thanks to Tony Wagner and Tim O’Connor for nice photos, even though most are of the express cars, which I am not going to do. But plenty of lettering info for these cars. I have some Richard

More photos from this series. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni

Also, the drop sill of the car in question, and the FtP, is clearly deeper than on Wt-I 190080, as it should be since the Ft-P was a longer car than the Ft-I/J. Jim Eager

With all due respect, the car that I asked about does not match car 190080. It has fewer stake pockets (12 vs 14), the shape of the stake pockets themselves is different, and the drop sills lack the

Charles, There is one "this is how it worked" relative to paint ... before ... color film. And that is that many (dare I say "most"?) RRs mixed their own "box car red", a batch at a time, in the

The 63000-63999 series were built in 1916 and were slightly different with 9 panel sides instead of 8. F&C makesa kit of these cars. Tony Wagner

I also have been wanting to model one of the CMO cars in the 20000-22414 series. I think the challenge in HO is the Superior door with the wide space at the top. I have not found a good model for this