Arnold, I'm not aware of any lettering sets for RPX Shell tank cars. However, Life-Like produced a factory painted and lettered model for those cars. As for the Sinclair cars, Microscale has never

I am looking for information on EJ&E 40' PS-1 boxcars. I have searched all 30000 archive messages (search string EJ&E PS1's) with no success. I am looking for build date, delivery paint (Green and

The cars in this series were numbered 2301-2500. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

My saga with building these kits goes on. With a lot of help from a number of people on the list I have completed the NYC, NKP, and L&N cars. Thanks again to all who helped. To finish the series I

Can anyone tell me the railroadnumbers of the Shell RPX 8.000 gallon tank cars, around the year 1947? Was it beginning with 2300 or 2301?

I have posted the shots I took of the C & O cars in the STMFPH site, look in the files section for a folder called "C&O 1930 Autoboxcars" Sorry, no roof or under body shots, I had to honer the

Thanks Ed. We wondered about that possible heritage but couldn't get far enough back to really look at it. Rupert

I am in the process of drawing scale CAD drawings of the X-3 tank car. I would like to do the 6500, 8000, and 10,000 gallon versions. I have been using the 1922 CBC as a source as well as the photos

wrote: Train Shed Cyclopedia #12 has couple of photos of 106A, GATX & ACF. Also ACF general arrangement.

In the LaSalle Illinois library is a 1910 glossy paper city directory. It states that the LS&BC had 210 tank cars in sulpheric acid service. there is a photo of one of their tank cars in 1956 in the

I remembered that Piccolite resins are clear so they're probably not derived from pine stumps. I called the distributor. The PICCO resins they sell now are polystyrene. The distrubutor thought that

All: Now that Burl Rice has revised the flat panel roofs (they look sharp): http://frontiernet.net/~burlrice/store/TC500/index.php ....for the PS built Tennessee Central 7900 cars, I have interest

Mr. Hendrickson, I've put the decalnumber in the http://www.internettrains.com/ shopping list. Thank you again. Arnold.

In a message dated 5/7/2004 1:24:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, STMFC@... writes: Motor Fuel Anti-Knock Compound (although correct me, I think that this product was very heavy, so often

Right now i'm changing the standard couplers to Kadee #58, and i'm about to ad the air hose to the car. Is there someone who's having detailed photo's of the coupler and the the air hose? Arnold.

Elden, As I mentioned earlier, I'm not going to get a chance to do any in-depth research on your question about the various companies that made or used anhydrous ammonia until sometime this weekend.

Dean Payne asked: I am assembling the F&C kit 2081 "NYO&W 34' wood hopper". The instructions say to "attach the K brake." <<snip>> Does anyone know where the K brake would go? While not the same

Did any of these UTLX cars have ladders on only one side ?Armand Premo

For information on details that could be improved, please see Tim O'Connor's concise summary (in the archives as message #16501). Regards, -Jeff -- Jeff Aley

Shawn, Which time slot would you like for your clinic on tank car commodities, to be presented at Prototype Rails 2005? Regards, -Jeff -- Jeff Aley jaley@... DPG