Doug (?) in CA asked: "I need some help in locating the proper road in order to buy decals for 1)caboose, brown roof and orange sides, 2)wide vision caboose, red and 3)40' round roof 2 door each side

Tim O'Connor? wrote: Clark, take a look at the Atlas 70 ton roller bearing truck, and the venerable Athearn 70 ton roller bearing truck. They are both quite similar in appearance to the Barber S-2

boxcars, chose it three apparatus which is a and ends problem line up once of the photos and the ones grabs were. Welcome to the club. Thanks for sharing your filling technique. Comes on handy as I

Mike Brock wrote: Both the gallonage and capacity are nominal values. Neither one is precise. On tanks, the exact gallonage was lettered on the tank end by some owners, e.g. 8132 gallons on an 8k

Hello all-I need some help in locating the proper road in order to buy decals for 1)caboose, brown roof and orange sides, 2)wide vision caboose, red and 3)40' round roof 2 door each side box car,

Thanks to all; You provided some great feedback. I really appreciate it. It seems you got the box nailed, and a good response on the GLA. That URR gon remains a mystery.... And 21st St. Yard?

Thanks for the info, Ben. Mark Heiden

Jim and Ben: I've got photos of the 40 ft. DL&W piggy-back flat cars lettered E-L taken after the 1960 merger of Dl&w and Erie. They did work into the 1960's hauling the shorter trailers. Mont

Gla. End sheet's not tall enough for an H21. David Thompson

Sorry for the late reply Garrett. I looked at the file earlier and had no problems with it. Don't know what to tell you really, Yahoo! puzzles me sometimes. Mark

Tim, Since this is a forum that many look to get information, please try to be somewhat more accurate. Because a firm sells a set of unused molds to Athearn does NOT equate that the firm was

It's a standard Southern railway wood sheathed DS automobile/furniture car of the same general type offered by Sunshine as a resin kit. In this case it is owned by the Alabama Great Southern as

I wrote: And Tony Thompson replies: Nope. The light weight is on there so when you weigh a loaded car, you know what to subtract (the shipper only pays for the weight of the cargo).

I am sorry to have rambled on; but I really was trying to ask what features did the CB&Q remove from the roof of these cars when the CB&Q first put them into service? Tyrone Johnsen

Andy Miller wrote: I can't think of anyone who makes an HO kit for a double sheathed 50' 12 foot door, car. Except that the Southern car in question is a 40 ft car. Try the Sunshine 37.x series of

Eldon, Using the blowup feature of the image browser, you can clearly see the car is wood, double sheathed, with a belt rail. It has Youngstown ends and hand grabs rather than ladders. It was built

Elden Gatwood asked: "What do you know about SOU 311006? Is it wood sheathed? Does any one make a model of this car? I doubt it was in auto service this day, as there are no auto unloading

Mike Brock wrote: Mike, the axle journals are sized for particular loads; that's the maximum load origin. That "typical" box car load limit depends, of course on the light weight. Exercise for

Bill Hirt wrote Consider yourself fortunate then. In New England, I have to drive 50+ miles one way to a discount hobby store that carries Athearn. And that dealer is Charles Ro, who won't reserve

Picky picky... Athearn acquired the Details West freight car tooling. The parts business is still DW.