Quoting George Hollwedel <georgeloop@...>: I'm not dead certain on the shift to orange paint for BAR reefers, George, but believe it was in the 1960's. Maine potatoes making it to

Yes Larry, they are clearly rebuilds of something. Also, as I was digging around looking for the BAR reefer photo, I found another NYSW photo - #504 in fairly new paint and it also has the 6/5/5 ends

Tim: Are these 40 ft. PS-1's with 6 ft. five panel Superior doors? If so they may have become Monon 541 - 565. An equipment diagram note reads as follows: "NOTE:- THESE CARS WERE PURCHASED 2ND

Tim Gilbert wrote Tim, may I ask why you say that? I know SP freight cars that numbered in the hundreds, and ran for years and years, and photos of them are as rare as diamonds. Just because you

Mont Switzer wrote: Per page 488 of the January 1943 ORER: Desig IL IH Cu. Ft. Qty. #2000-3600 XM 36' 6" 8' 2,482 615 #9000-9449 XM 40' 6" 10' 3,710 450 Total Boxcars 1,065 Monon's

Thanks to all for their replies. Ed Mines wrote I'm writing this at work so I can't check my photo collection. If this is a 40 ft. car with the old lady I think it's an ex LV former double door box

George Hollwedel wrote: The BAR had a very short-lived blue & white scheme with a large brown potato. It was an experiment. If any #6000 series reefer had that scheme, it was repainted shortly

Well, that means I can save my money! George Hollwedel Prototype N Scale Models georgeloop@...

Bruce: If you only need one Monon car it probably should be a 1937 AAR car, 450 of which arrived on the Monon in 1941 and 1942. I did a piece on them in MAINLINE MODELER a few years ago. There were

Unlike the others, I don't like natural twigs to simulate logs....I can always tell that they are twigs and one of my standards is to make ensure that modeling source material is generally

George, the paint scheme and information on the MT site is correct, but the model appears to have an incorrect roof and underframe for the BAR cars. Also, the white painted panel on the left side

Tim, I have a very nice 1950's photo of BAR #6722, a wood reefer in blue (lower half) and white (upper half) with a big red potato logo. There is a second car painted the same way in the

George Hollwedel wrote: The Red, White and Blue STATE OF MAINE cars were not reefers, but were boxcars - some of them insulated. The scheme started to be applied in the early 1950's. The BAR did not

Micro-Trains has released a blue and white, ex MDT, wood reefer this month and I'm trying to see how accurate and feasible it is. It is not a red white and blue boxcar. Micro-Trains is claiming they

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