Hi, I'm getting ready to paint an Erie/URTX steel reefer using a Pacific Rail Shops S scale 40' (PFE R-40-23) with an added on horizontal riveted seam. The only photos I have of the prototype

Bill Welch wrote: There will be a 12-Step breakfast at the IHOP near the Timonium Fairgrounds Saturday, October 9 at approximately 8 AM to discuss our addiction to buying freight car photos, kits of

I think Portola has a WP 53' gon with National B-1s under it.

Marty,I hope you have included some CV hopper bottom box cars in dedicated grain service, or others of the 40000 series in captive service on your roster.The top loading hatches make some of the cars

--- In STMFC@..., "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@c...> wrote: <snip> "BLI is advertising their stockcar as a PRR K7a ..." If there was that much information - what the prototype for the model was -

NYC 72000 series would be Lot 850-B, 800 cars built in 1954 through 1955. I only have one confirmed BLT date of 6-54. These were fifty- foot, single-door cars built by Despatch Shops with DS ends

If the information on the box label was limited to the data printed on the car I don't see any major problems. If the manufacturer is expected to hold out that particular paint job existed for a

To expand on what Ben said, I think that as a private owner, Berwind was actually shipping coal via its own cars directly to customers. My dad remembers seeing Berwind cars in the New Haven area in

Dennis, I don't know if you were looking for prototype examples or not, but this is the way it worked at the Monon Freight house next to Dearborn Station in Chicago. There were four tracks there

Or, right back to A, B, and C. I'm thinking that railroads tend to route LCL cars onto their home road, so that from my PRR freight house in Wilkes-Barre the D&H and B&M boxcars will generally be

Armand Premo wrote: Still a mystery, at least to me, were the number of Berwind cars that were interchanged with the CV at Alburgh. They were generally returned as empties in approximately three

Let me rephrase the question. WOULD the running board be painted black like the roof, OR be unpainted (possibly with overspray here and there?) I speculated on the reduction in contrast because my

Marty,I think this thread is worth pursuing.The Rutland stopped sending their hoppers off line in 1923 Company coal arrived on line and was off loaded at Alburgh where it was transferred to company

Garth: My mini-kit did come with both Montour and C&I decals. Regards, Ted Culotta

Marty: No decals apparently come with the mini-kit. I didn't know you were using the mini-kit when we first began this exchange. My car was lettered with Walthers decals on a stock Athearn model, the

As Ted, Tim, and some others know, when I say "New England" I'm usually taking a "CV Centric" point of view. And, since the Central Vermont was really a connection from Canada and the Midwest US into

I have a slightly different angle on Marty's New England coal discussion. I am more familiar with the New Haven. The NH received lots of anthracite in foreign road hoppers via the gateway at

Should have read the rest of the e-mails before replying. Oh well, at least I won't have to buy anyone lunch! Marty

Garth, There's no decals in there????? Darn, I THOUGHT there were decals in the Sunshine mini-kit (shows how long ago I looked at it). If not, I guess I'll have to treat one of my staff artists to

After looking at thousands of photos of CV freight trains taken between the years 1939 and 1957, I have to say I've never seen a C&O hopper on the CV. NYC ones are fairly rare (ie., one or two have