STMFC, I have been asked by Pat Wider to share with you the following information he has compiled on Milwaukee Road rib-side cars. This and more will be in an article in a future volume of Railway

Mike Brock wrote: This might be "roadway material," a term also used on SP and perhaps with origins in the Harriman era. Most "general purpose" boxes and flats in MOW service on SP were called

Richard; Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my message. I could also have been more careful in my definition of a "small" road, and I hope I did not offend anyone. Your assessment is

Ed Mines wrote: Oh, yeah. But the "brittle" had its compensations. I once dropped a completed kit from that early material and it fractured into a whole bunch of pieces. Disaster! But no, I

Forgot one thing that would make it easier - here are the number series: PRR 648314-648338, K7 (7/1950 - 15, none listed in 1/1955) PRR 134079-135499, K7A (10/1963 - 3, none listed in 4/1968) PRR

Looking for an assist to help fill gaps in my ORER coverage to determine final dates in revenue service for the following PRR stock car classes for an upcoming article in The Keystone Modeler: K7

Elden Gatwood writes: I'm responding only on those RRs for whose cars I have photographic evidence. Delray Connecting RR owned about 150 hopper cars and 70 41' gondolas. The gons were 10 panel

List, Has anyone tried to figure out what percentage of the national box car fleet was made up of Milwaukee's rib-side cars? I have two of the Rib Side kits, and think that's probably enough of a

Ed, These same comments were also posted in the files section under the folder on Milw Rib Side Cars. John Greedy and contrary. [snip]

**** I have no knowledge of any of the issues or non-issues related to casting of these cars. **** What I can offer is that he is pouring the "one-piece" bodies that are not actually bodies, but

While beginning a look through my Fraley for autos & auto parts, I notice three "lumber trains" heading east. The consists of these three trains are interesting primarily because of the presence and

I think I'm more of an open top freight car enthusiast than most and the many offerings for one piece gons from Sunshine had me very interested. I've never received a flyer for these cars. I am a

The old Westerfield kits that occasionally show up in hobby shops and on Ebay come out of estate sales. If the dark gey resin was bad the original brown, aluminium filled resin was worse. Besides

John is not quite right. We can't order the hobby shops to do anything. About 16 years ago we offered to replace every kit on every hobby shop shelf for free just to get rid of the old resin. We

Elden - We make an EJ&E USRA DS box car. - Al aside from the discontinued Sunshine EJ&E boxcar, I don't think I have ever seen a model. Thanks!

I have often had to solve this problem by using old Red Ball trucks. They were cast in type metal and weighed several ounces. They were pretty, but their rolling characteristics are far from

Andy, Bruce, and Garth; Thanks for the feedback. It was very helpful. Some of these small lines may be obscure, but they did have a presence out there, and photos confirm that presence in many areas

Jerry: You're on your own. When I built the ACL car, I added thin sheet metal between the underframe and floor castings. It's not enough, so I went back and added squares of lead between the

Andy and Elden, Don't forget that the IHB had 10' IH 40' boxcars. IIRC, IMWX (or maybe Des Plaines) offered this car lettered for IHB. It's gone now, but the Red Caboose model is substantially

At Naperville this year Sunshine Models had a large offering of gondola cars kits. While I personal did not buy any of the new kits at that time, I was interested in the C&NW offering but