The gentleman is Luis Dominguez of Coral Gables. He has sent me photos (mostly from Cycs) of Cuban cars he wants to model and I have given him suggestions of which of my kits would be best candidates

Hi Group, As a child in the early 50s, I visited my grandparents who were wintering over in Palm Beach, Fl. My grandfather would take me down to the SeaTrain piers where we would watch the early

Garth Groff wrote: "From what I've seen in photos, most Cuban equipment was pretty primitive and probably wouldn't have met U.S. safety standards." It wasn't all

Rich, The West Indies Fruit & Steamship Co. ran a ferry service from Florida to Havana, and had a modest roster of boxcars and reefers. I believe this was a subsidiary of the Florida East Coast. I

I don't have much info on the specific question, but can offer a correction. UTLX is the reporting mark for Union Tank Car company cars. I believe you are looking for URTX, Union Refrigerator

Does anyone have car diagrams for the following NH cars: XM1 series 70000-71999 (formally 15000-16999) XM4 series 85000-86999 (formally 32000-33999) XM7 series 170000-172399 Thanks, Al Westerfield

Did any Cuban freight cars make it to the US on the pre-Castro car ferries, or was it all US cars? -- Richard Townsend Lincoln City,

I said:      I'm not so sure, Eric. The ones I looked at close-up at Eric Bracher replied: I walked around the cars and poked my head inside on several occasions (looking for structural details

Earl, The helium cars that I photographed within the past ten years passing through here were all painted silver. Charlie Charles Dean Shelbyville, Kentucky From: "Earl Myers"

Just a few lines of thanks to everyone on list for the help with the tank car question. I model an area in Western West Virginia 1952, and would like to make an effort to have the cars era

Tim, The cars in question were built February 1954 so the photo showing a pretty clean car is likely from 1954. There were 25 NYC PS-1s built with Pullman-Standard's cushioned underframes (P-S Lot No.

This is only a partial view, and the photo is mislabeled as being from 1951, but I've seen very few photos of these rare PS-1 Pacemaker cars. http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc863ark.jpg

Phil Buchwald wrote: TRAINS magazine ran an article a while back which described truck sideframes as (relatively) low cost commodities, where pennies shaved off of the cost were very important. Also,

Folks, Not having any good referance material. I need some help with some Reefer Information. ACF made reefers for UTLX and ART in the same time periods, and probably some other railroads as well.

Eric Bracher responded to: Can anybody determine without a doubt that these cars were painted Navy with: I'm not so sure, Eric. The ones I looked at close-up at Rocketdyne's siding in the 1970s

the cars i saw were in the 1955-1970's. they always looked vewry gray to me as they were parked next to the 101 freeway. eric [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

My e mail is not intended to put anyone down but from the thinking of the railroad workers view point you guys are out in left field with this thread. I was on the RR from 1949 t0 1954. (STMFC) We did

buchwaldfam wrote: Phil, The 1953 date was probably a misprint because the first series of cars sold to the WAG occurred on April 14th, 1958. The first of the 100 cars sold to the FDDM&S occurred

TRAINS magazine ran an article a while back which described truck sideframes as (relatively) low cost commodities, where pennies shaved off of the cost were very important. Also, the article said

Everyone, thanks for the info. The photo, of course, raises even more questions! The instruction sheet in the kit (apparently reprinted from the May 1991 MODEL RAILROADING)states that the WAG