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Erie - URTX again

Hello, Some time back I inquired if anyone here knew if there were more than 1 Erie steel URTX reefers. One, #37808 is pictured in the Erie/DL&W color guide on a 100th anniversary publicity

By Bud Rindfleisch · #38025 ·

Rocket Express resin kits

Hi Folks, A few years ago, I bought a 40' and 50' Rock Island outside braced boxcar kit in Resin from a company named "Rocket Express". The proprietor's name was Ron VonWerder. Anyone know if he's

By Paul Gehrett · #38024 ·

Re: PS 1 ends

Richard Berry wrote: "Intermountain lists separate PS-1 ends in HO, part # 4040013, out of stock at Walthers." That's because Intermountain has gone to Horizon as their exclusive distributor. The

By Benjamin Hom <b.hom@...> · #38022 ·

Re: Museum Collections (long).

Denny Anspach wrote: Gee, Denny, every public library I've ever been in allows this. You are evidently referring to fragile, rare or archival material, not "anything on the shelf." Of course

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #38023 ·

Re: Museum Collections

Chuck and Tom, I have no problem understanding the position of the museum. What perhaps you are not grasping is the position of a particular society which wishes to house archives. Years of

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #38021 ·

Re: PS 1 ends

Clark, Intermountain lists separate PS-1 ends in HO, part # 4040013, out of stock at Walthers. At one time Cannonball had separate ends from the old, old Kurtz Kraft line. I tried their web site and

By rberry634 <rberry634@...> · #38020 ·

PS 1 ends

Anyone have any separate PS 1 box car ends? Clark propst

By Clark Propst <cepropst@...> · #38019 ·

SAL B-3 12399

Yesterday, I received a print of SAL B-3 12399. This is one of the first of the Seaboard's many ARA single sheathed box cars. Like the other SAL ARA box cars, it has fishbelly center sills, but the

By Ted Culotta <tculotta@...> · #38018 ·

Gondola help

A freind has several Life-Like gondolas which are all freight car red. He would like to paint one or two black. Can anyone supply info on any of these gons that were black, other than the models

By rockroll50401 <cepropst@...> · #38017 ·

Re: 0.88 wheels: Anyone experiencing any problems?

Several years ago I attended a presentation by JP Barger at the Glendale Model Railroad Club. JP provided a 120 car train all with 0.88 wheels. We ran the train around our layout with only two

By BuyGone Treasures <buygone@...> · #38015 ·

Re: New Walthers USRA 55 ton hopper

jrs060@m... suppose to mystery. Paul, The IC cars were originally numbered in the 210000-210999 series. The April 1940 ORER shows 960 cars still in the group. By this time they were being

By Chet French <cfrench@...> · #38014 ·

Re: Museum Collections (long).

Denny, the material on the shelves at the Barriger are no more or less than that at the Northwestern library or several others. It is by no means the full collection. It used to be that you'd have

By Bob Webber <rswebber@...> · #38013 ·

Re: New Walthers USRA 55 ton hopper

Thanks Chet, Most informative and something I will put on my photographic pursuit list. Paul Lyons Laguna Niguel, CA

By Paul Lyons · #38016 ·

Re: Museim Collections (long).

Chuck Yungkurth is dead right in his understanding of where responsibilities and accountability lie in publicly owned or non-profit museums. The "owners" are the public at large, and the trustees

By Denny Anspach <danspach@...> · #38012 ·

Photo of B&O war emergency hopper, circa 1951

Hello everyone, Following up on the discussion earlier in the week about B&O and C&O war emergency hoppers, a photo of a B&O hopper was posted on Fallen Flags today. The link

By Mark Heiden · #38011 ·

Re: Uses for Reefers (was Re: Wabash to the B&O at Decatur)

During the summers of 1964, 1965 I worked for the Milwaukee Road in their freighthouse at Galewood (Chicago). Most of the operation was devoted to distribution of Montgomery Wards merchandise from

By rberry634 <rberry634@...> · #38010 ·

Re: LV Box Car Lettering

Frank, I have two builder's shots of LV cars with this lettering scheme (both also had black diamond heralds to the right of the doors). One was built by Pressed Steel Car Co. in 1941 and was a 1937

By Richard Hendrickson · #38008 ·

M&StL freight cars

Got the following information on M&StL freight cars from Gene Green, as I am the owner/moderator of the M&StL group. Some very interesting information on a series of freight cars. But does anyone have

By Douglas Harding <d.harding@...> · #38009 ·

Re: ATSF Bx-3/6

From Steve Shaffer: This statement in Ellington, et. al. is confusing, if not downright misleading. But remember that the book was written many years ago when much less prototype information was in

By Richard Hendrickson · #38007 ·

Re: LV Box Car Lettering

Frank Brua wrote: "I have an old Athearn metal sided Lehigh Valley 'AAR box car kit produced in the late 1940's which has the words 'Lehigh Valley' above the reporting marks and under this the

By benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> · #38005 ·

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