Note to self: Stop chewing on model trains. A bad habit, and possibly hazardous. Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> -->> NOTE EMAIL CHANGE <<-- Sterling, Massachusetts

Larry, That's weird, I have scans of NYSW 501 and 510 and they are 40 foot cars. Also the 1965 ORER lists 501 to 524 as 40 foot cars. The 3645 cubic feet is consistent with a 40 foot car, not a 50

Lee, all of the B-50-47's had H/C underframes including the T&NO cars. My notes say SP Equipment Co. was the builder of all of the cars. Unfortunately I've never seen a photograph of one of

Solves 1/2 the equation, now when did the color change from blue and white to yellow/orange? Would a blue and white one have lasted until 1953?

By 1943, 800 of C&O's 1000 USRA boxes had been rebuilt with steel sides (use the new Sunshine kit) and most of the rest were being cut down to wheel flats. David Thompson

Deny Anspach replied: In the potato off-season, the BAR had an arrangement by which they provided their surplus reefers to PFE. Tim Gilbert

SP/PFE borrowed lots of reefers in the off-season from BAR. Early 1960's photos of Donner pass show lots of BAR reefers, plus C&NW/NWX reefers mixed in with PFE reefers. Before the mid 1950's, I

Tony Thompson wrote And as Tony pointed out in another email in a galaxy long ago and far away, from April 26, 1956 to November 30, 1956, the car wore the number 171490! Also according to an earlier

Shawn, P2K at 50% off is no big deal. You can get those prices any day on Ebay. I doubt that Ron has marked down the most recent P2K stuff. (I once took advantage of a P2K sale at Charles Ro --

If you are lettering for SP, the number is SHS-144 from Champ. Jim Scott Lompoc, CA --- h81644 <H81644@...> wrote: __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo!

For anyone interested I will bring copies of the 52 page handout I provided last year for my presentation "Wood Sheathed Cars of the FGEX/WFEX/BREX Freight Refrigerator Fleet" for anyone that did not

Tony, Were ALL member of class B-50-47 outfitted with Hydra-Cushion underframes, including the T&NO cars? Who was the builder of this class? Who was the commercial builder of the H/C

The problem with small worms in the "logs" in the log buggies surfaced in about 1954 when the buggies were first introduced by Model Engineering Works. Following an interesting letter in Model

"George Hollwedel" <georgeloop@...> asks re: BAR reefers- I have no idea, but what I do know is that I used to see whole solid blocks of leased yellow BAR reefers making their way over

Tony, Is there anyone making decals for these cars. I have about 19 of them that I need to letter. Thanks, George for sure, they photo even http://www.signaturepress.com

I have a two part BAR reefer question. When did they start painting them yellow or orange? Would a load of Maine potatoes ever have made it's way to California? Thanks for any help! George

List, Not to single Bill S. out for abuse, but I've noticed that some of the boxcars illustrated at the Branchline web site have their AAR classification stenciled on the side and some don't. Was it

The flyer says buy one get one free on all P2K engines, and 20% off everything else. They usually hold this sale about twice a year. Ray Breyer

Does anyone know of photo documentation of the 100000 - 100499 series? Jim Wolf Otis Orchards, WA wrote: like PRR X29, the widely

I wrote: Should'na typed without checking. The last car of Class B-50-34, car no. 110249, was constructed by SP Equipment Co. in November, 1954, with a prototype Hydra-Cushion underframe fabricated