It could be that the brass market suffers from the price of the locomotives used to pull the steam era freigth cars when compared with the output of Bachamnn, Life-Like, BLI, and even Con-Cor in

Chet and Jerry, Thank you very much for the information. Do either of you have a diagram of this car you could share. It would be interesting to look at a possible kitbash. Regards, Mike ---

In a message dated 01/24/05 4:38:09 P.M. Central Standard Time, hawk0621@... writes: The 4/57 ORER lists these cars as being gondola cars with no special notes about coke racks.

Jim Cummings asked: "Does anyone know if Sunshine Models will be an attending vendor?" Tom Olsen posted yesterday, 23 January (post #37803): "I spoke with Martin on Friday to find out if he was going

Does anyone know if Sunshine Models will be an attending vendor?I believe the date is Feb.5-6. Regards, Jim Cummings

Schuyler, I show Erie 63000-63157 as 50 foot, single door box cars built in 1954 (RMJ 11/1998). They are listed in the 1959 ORER that way, although there are only 49 cars in the series. Erie end door

Is there any way to determine who made the car? The bolsters are riveted. With so many pictures and its availability to view, it would make a nice project. Steve Fuchs, College Place,

Jason: The reason that I asked............. I built three of these kits back about 1985 adding lots of detail goodies and doing different side sill and door variations. They still look pretty good

Ben Hom wrote: 8 of ten of the X28/X28A side panels are the same width as the X29. The two "odd" panels are the one that replaced the door (the door itself was 4 ft 4 in) and the one immediately to

--- <ZOE@...> wrote: Mont, I've not heard Merle mention releasing a seperate upgrade kit for the older versions. One of the big features of this new release is the narrowing of the body to

I can't speak to the B&O cars, but all of the wood on the C&O hoppers was replaced by steel in 1953. Bill McClure

Phil Buchwald wrote: "If the MS1 scheme is the one which is shown in the second of your X29 articles, then maybe I've found something. In that Milwaukee Road book by Jim Scribbins, on page 113,

If the MS1 scheme is the one which is shown in the second of your X29 articles, then maybe I've found something. In that Milwaukee Road book by Jim Scribbins, on page 113, there is an infuriating

Richard, In a word, "No." UVA is not very good for train materials. About ten years back we had two ORERS, 1953 and 1957, which I was regularly checking out. Then they were discarded, inspite of

Folks, In the late 1950s, Missouri Pacific had 100 cars (7100-7199) fitted with coke racks. Were these hoppers or gondolas? Doe anyone know of photos of this series of cars with or without the

List, When I said "Unfortunately," in regard to Rail Classics, I meant it in the context that we were losing a premier importer who was very exacting. Eddie told me a few years ago at one our

Ted, Tim and List, Yes, it is true, Rail Classics has folded the tent. Eddie's father has recently passed away and other pressures have caused him to make the decision to close the business. He is

The Strahorn Library - part of IRM at Union - has quite an extensive collection of ORER's as well as model magazines, railroad books, etc. I spent a very pleasant day there last year researching CB&Q

Thanks Ted, I figured you had covered these cars. Now to find the issue. Brian Ted Culotta <tculotta@...> wrote:

On Jan 23, 2005, at 8:18 PM, prrk41361 wrote: I purchased one of these Howe truss design single sheathed box cars, Slyvan model, and I am in need of an end picture to show what type of uncoupling