The Reading Company Technical and Historical Society (WWW.READINGRAILROAD.ORG) official publication, The Bee Line, volume 19 #3 from 1997 has a nice article on the Reading XMt box cars. I used it

40 freight cars a year for 25 years will get you 1,000 freight cars. I think everyone here can afford that! (Internet access alone costs me as much as 20 Sunshine kits every year.) Tim O'Connor

Tim O'Connor wrote: Inferring that you have an unlimited budget for model freight cars. Tim Gilbert

Tim O'Connor wrote: This "Potato" scheme would have been quite exotic which would appeal to many aficionados of the esoteric including photographers. That more photos of this scheme have not appeared

Tim Gilbert conjectures I have to disagree. It just could be bad luck. SP and SSW painted a small number of box cars in red and gray paint -- seen many pictures of them? Until the last 2-3 years, I'd

Am I missing something here?I would like to suggest that there are many more variables that have to be taken into consideration when building one's freight car roster.One should take into

Travers, BaltimoreTerminal wrote: Yes, the cars are not directly usable from PRR X29's, but the general appearance is similar. This is like saying that I can model Pre-war AAR boxcars, Post-war

wrote: Thank you! Jim Wolf

Tim said: Ah, but you will, you will!! <g>

Yes; SP Equipment Co.; underframes built by Consolidated Western Steel. Yes, one car. All this will, of course, be covered in excruciating detail in my volume on...wait for it...box cars...<g>.

Yep, all that's in the car ledger. The 171000 series was the "permanent" number.

Tim, There is an article in Mainline Modleler 6/96 on p30, along with a construction article for the ex-MDT cars. It states that the cars were purchased by the BAR in 1947 and were wood

Jim, You'll find the following: 101070 1930 bldr foto on p 76 of RMC 1/94 and p 40 of MM 2/87 101199 1930 bldr foto on p 41 of MM 2/86 102123 1962 color at Shamokin, PA on p16 of the

Someone mentioned a few months ago about etched rub rails being available for early piggy back flats. Who was it and how do I get intouch with them. Larry Smith

Oops. My calculation was wrong. If you have ONE box car on your layout at a time, and .14% of the fleet is Monon, then the expectation is 40% that at least ONE of those days during the year, the car

Ted, Thanks. Yes, the cars are not directly usable from PRR X29's. but the general appearance is similar. As you point out, there are detail differences among the many roads that had similar cars,

And therefore, the probability that NONE of the Monon box cars showed up in a year's time in any particular location is less than 6%... Or put another way, there's a 94% probability that at least one

Quoting tim gilbert <tgilbert@...>: What makes you think it was experimental, Tim? It occurrs to me that it was around too long for that. Take care, Don Valentine

Mont, the car in the circa 1980 photo matches those features, but we're talking about 30 years later! By 1959 the NYSW only showed two cars remaining of those 35 PS-1's they bought in 1952.

I still have no ID on the box car in Moline, KS, but here is one I can definitely identify. It is Fe-K, autobox