Of the color still photos I have seen, I have yet to see an ATSF stock car with a black roof. Of course, most of the color photos come from the late 50s and 60s when the black roof would have been

Darren Plants wrote: "I just started my first resin stock car, a Sunshine ATSF Sk-U. After spending the better part of my Saturday evening cleaning flash out of the slats, I need somebody to remind

I got one from Ted Schnepf @ Rails Unlimited in early September. The usual disclaimers apply. -- Brian Ehni

In a message dated 10/24/2004 7:50:36 PM Central Daylight Time, dplants@... writes: I just started my first resin stock car, a Sunshine ATSF Sk-U. After spending the better part of my Saturday

I just started my first resin stock car, a Sunshine ATSF Sk-U. After spending the better part of my Saturday evening cleaning flash out of the slats, I need somebody to remind that this hobby is

How about volume 9 ?Arm

Saturday, a guy have a with not, He panel roof Stan you Okay? We'll talk about it this weekend. Now, the Sunshine kit is $30+ and Stan's roof is another $8 and we haven't bought any trucks or

GTW 48K low resolution color scan of GTW 441761 A, an Automobile single door boxcar. Built in 5-29, rebuild date of 4-47, last reweigh of 1954. Anyone who would like a copy sent, reply to this email

Patrick Lawson's article "Canadian Pacific Railway Box Car 55525-56024" in the October 2004 issue of Mainline Modeler states that these cars were built in 1938. However, this date or the car series

John and all I have been away for a couple of days doing some work for my employeer Norfolk Southern, so my reply is a bit late on this.. John is dead right here. It seems like an eternity but it

about the floor. There is some room to lower it compared to the side sills, but even if the floor was lowered, the relationship between the bottom of the centre sill and the top of the truck side

The November, 1982 issue of Mainline Modeler has comprehensive text and photo documentation plus S scale drawings for the M-53 cars. I used this material to build an O scale replica. My construction

Hi All, I have a customer that is possibly in the market for a HO brass PRR H30 or H32 hopper. If you have one of each available a package deal may be possible. A newer run like Overland and

Given Al's comments about the resin business and knowing a little about programming, I'm just glad they have a web site. It will probably get improved. Sometimes you just have to ship. :) Especially

also a Historical According to RPCyc's web site, volume 9 is still availible and can be ordered from them. http://geocities.com/rpcyc/home.html Bob Kingman

Volume Nine of the Railway Prototype Encyclopedia (RPCyc) has an extensive article on both the M-15 conversions and the M-53s. It also covers the C-16 head end wagontops. Unfortunately, it is out of

So is there, like, easy jail and hard jail, too? or extreme jail (let's not go there) . . . Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Sorry about mis-spelling your name Alan, and thanks for interjecting Allen, I agree with you about the centre beam Allen, but I'm not sure about the floor. There is some room to lower it compared to

Festus writes: "But wha' we want ta know is how long ya gonna keep 'em in Jail Sheriff and is dere gonna be a lynchin' #^)" Well...I'll admit that I often lose the key to occupied cells.

Clark: The roof in Martin's kit is an 11-panel riveted flat roof that goes with the SAL, WRT and NC&StL cars. The CGW, NdeM and Soo cars had 12-panel flat roofs, which Martin's kits do not have.