Marty, Back in the day when the original All-Nation was producing O-gauge box car kits, I bought an M&StL green car. Of course, the roof was wrong as were the ends, but the color was dead on as far

Tim: What is the Sunshine kit number? Thanks Paul C. Koehler

Gene I am interested in the roofs. Do you have brake and running board info for them too? Do you know of any published photos of the 53000s in green? I saw a letter in CNWHS V.20/4 that seems to

& -------------------------------------- The slanted 'THE PEORIA GATEWAY' slogan was introduced in 1937. The slogan had to be moved from the door to the side just right of the door for the first

I would suggest that you contact Craig Presler, c.presler@... , who is the freight car guy at the museum in Noblesville, IN. If he doesn't know for sure he can find out if the cars are

Marty McGuirk wrote Marty, as far as I have been able to figure out the only M&StL cars painted green were the 4000-5398 series built in 1952 -- this is available as a kit from Sunshine. I have not

Gene, according to my notes, CN 474000-477849 all had S-corner ends and FLAT riveted roofs. The end styles were 474000-475299 unknown 475300-475999 NSC-1 ends 476625-477349 NSC-2 ends

Actually these three cars are from different series: 477350-477949 were built by Canadian Car & Foundry in 5-6/39 (477636 was built in June -- and should you be interested, was renumbered to 425604

Marty McGuirk writes: You're right, Marty. When that slogan was introduced in the mid-`40s, it was on mineral red cars with white lettering; the green/yellow P/L scheme didn't appear, IIRC, until

Chris Barkan wrote: Chet French sent me a scan of a photo he took, and the car sure looks like it has a lot of rust streaks down the sides. He stated that the photo was taken four years ago.

Hi Bill, I just looked at my slides, and there appears to be some rust spots mid panel (not around any connection points). Maybe it is not rust, but corrosion of some sort from abuse to the side

Does anyone out there have a match color they like for Minneapolis & St Louis 1937 AAR green boxcars with the "Peoria Gateway" slanted lettering? Although, I'd swear I've seen pics of these cars in

be if Which Gene, Everything you need to know about how to model these and other CN 40' boxcars is covered in an article written by Stafford Swain in RMC. I can't recall exactly when the

Gene, Stafford Swain did an article for one of the mags on the entire family of CN 1937 AAR boxcars for one of the mags (RMC I believe) several years ago -- and he did a much more in depth series

Ben Hom wrote: "Both these cars had flat panel roofs vice instead of the more familiar rectangular panel roof." BTW, Sylvan also carries the roofs: Flat Panel Murphy Roof, Part No. DP-0047 Ben

Gene Green asked: "I recently acquired one photo each of CN 474917, blt 6-38, and CN 475831, blt 7-38, which are both from the same CN series as 477636, namely 471000-477849 as listed in Jan. 1942

Need some help concerning Canandian National box cars. On January 17, 1949 CN XM 477636 was on the M&StL hauling paper. I recently acquired one photo each of CN 474917, blt 6-38, and CN 475831, blt

Mike - Please delete me from the email address westerfield@.... - Al Westerfield

The original post on these described them as "steel cars" painted silver. Are they actually painted, or maybe that is their unfinished color? Tony, do you know if the originals were painted or ran

I have heard in the past that the Tamiya acrylic color "Hull Red" is a good match for the CP BCR color, but have not yet used it myself. Geoffrey Barbier gdbarbier@... for CPR cars? I'm