As late as 1960 the B&O still rostered 231 class N-37 WWII emergency hoppers still with wood sides intact. They also still had 575 class N-37A and 200 class N-37B which were these hoppers converted

A typo... The tariff bureau covering traffic from Iowa and Nebraska was the Western TRUNK Lines. I also mis-spelled tariff 10 times. It just wasn't my night. Sorry. Bill McCoy it's are are

I was involved with pricing (Sales and marketing) with CSXT and it's predecessors for 33 years. The various respondents are correct in that tarriffs were esoteric in the extreme. It depends on what

Martin will be at the OREM swap meet on March 5th and this years Monrovia meet is gotng to be moved to Buena Park. He is getting the fliers ready to mail now and if you are on his mailing list you

Jerry, The 4/57 ORER lists these cars as being gondola cars with no special notes about coke racks. The cars were built in mid-1956. The only photo I've seen of a car from this series was a MP

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