All, I think there's a lesson to be learned from the conversation about modern vs. steam era guys in regard to RPM Meets. My opinion: Prototype guys is prototype guys, period, dot, end of statement.

Elden Gatwood asked: "I also understand that P&WV did their change to black paint in 1958. Did that also involve a change in lettering to include the "symbol of service" logo, or did that occur

Ben Hom wrote: The reason, as I'm sure Ben knows, but doesn't say clearly, was the introduction of icing machines, which passed over the car roof, and would have been interfered by hatches

marks And PFE stencilled the car number on the roof of SOME of their reefers (see the PFE book for photos). But for reefers, it makes a lot of sense -- there's a darn good reason to be on the roof

Ray Breyer asked: "Interesting photos on the UofP site, especially this

Elden, The 1947-48 built PS-1s differed in several ways from the 1950 and later cars. The outermost roof panels were flat. the ends lacked the 6 pressed rectangular stiffeners directly under the peak,

Phil Buchwald asked: Phil, Here is roster information courtesy of Lee Gautreaux's web site: http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/box/b050-34.htm Hope this helps, Shawn Beckert

I'd like build a single door car, only so I don't have to hunt down another pair of doors. Is that what the B-50-34 was? The photo in the magazine (my only source) shows a double door car, but not

Interesting photos on the UofP site, especially this

Edwin C. Kirstatter wrote: Edwin and Brian, Obviously several of these cars avoided the paint shop long enough to get photographed well past our time limit of 1960. I think I'll be okay if I have

The Oct. 55 issue of MR had a article on building a wooden Sante Fe sulphur gondola. It was numbered 180157 with a new date of 05-29. Class GA - 19. Is there any chance there is additional info

Shawn, In my collection photos that I have taken over the years I have a pix of well weathered R.I. 22300 at Seville, Ohio spotted at a feed mill on July 5, 1965. Is that

Whoops, my bad. I meant to send that to Mike not to the list in general. Sorry! Dave Nelson

2 All, If you want to send your comments to the moderators, that's fine. You can even swear if you want to. HOWEVER, 1) We do not allow 4-letter words on this list. 2) Mike has alreay banned

Elden, IIRC, P&WV's PS-1s were built prior to 1950 (1948 comes to mind), so they would lack stiffeners on the last roof panels. Ed Hawkins' rosters in RMJ and the old DING will give you the years and

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Folks; I just wanted to bring to your attention my current most-used resources for modeling motivation and ideas, with the hope that you might find them to be the same. First, there is a series of

Bill McCoy wrote: None of those. There were NO welded 50-ton SP box cars, AFAIK, and even the early 70-ton cars were riveted also. Shaving rivets off models isn't hard, but gluing them on is

Ron Merrick wrote: "Talk about deja vu -- I remember seeing an L&NW "X29" car passing through Kansas on the Rock Island in about 1972, give or take a year, and I got a picture of it. I'd have to

Shawn,Ok thank`s I should have looked at the builders date.Thank`s AL HENTSCH