Rob Adams wrote: "Railroad Model Craftsman ran a Martin Lofton article in their October, 1990 issue that featured the Frisco's rebuilt USRA gons. I don't have access to it right now, but I recall

Ben, I guess the other question is, how realistic is it for my late 1940s to mid 1950s era SP California layout to feature such a car? Would Frisco gons have been seen off line much by this time? Or

Paul, Thanks for the heads up about the Sunshine kit. I didn't realize that he offered these cars. However, my original query was more with respect to what I could do with this spare undecorated IM

Aidrian, Well, I was thinking about the MP cars that Ben Hom mentioned, but now I am intrigued by the Frisco cars as these seem to offer much more potential for conversion with the IM kit. I model the

Stefan What timeframe are you thinking of? Many USRA gons were rebuilt or retired by the late thirties or early forties so there may not be quite so many choices if you are working to a later

Brian says: not scene The photo is dated 1941 Regards Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Given other already identified schemes in the picture, clean X25 in CK paint, Erie 1932 box with small herald, B&O hoppers with lettering only, I think it is safe to say the middle boxcar in the back

Ben, Yes, it is RC-7050. Lou Nigro ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 16

Hi Jerry, Thanks for the refresher course. Sincerely, Richard Yoder 7 Edgedale Court Wyomissing PA 19610-1913 www.richyodermodels.com

Andy Laurent wrote: The Official List of Open and Prepay Stations does not have any sort of comprehensive list industries and consignees. If you read the text at the heading of those lists in the

Mike, I just subscribed and it went fine. But if you search Yahoo groups using the name Licen you still end up with plates<VBG>. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax,

Jon Miller writes: Jon, Post message: Licen@... Subscribe: Licen-subscribe@... Unsubscribe: Licen-unsubscribe@... List owner:

Mike, I have other tried to find the Licen group but all Yahoo comes up with is collecting license plates. What is the exact title of the group? Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in

Phil Buchwald says: "I'm surprised that CSX doesn't feel that they own the rights to the wagontop car itself, never mind the graphics. After all, the wagontop is as much a symbol of the B&O as

Also, there is the issue that IM's The original plan was indeed to tool a "high" and "low" side sill as a sort of insert plug that the modeler could glue in place to represent one or the other

Although a newby to this modeling authorship gig, having been a newsphotographer for 13 years many years ago, I know that there can be a wide varience between what I submit and what gets used.

Bill's text refers to two builders photos of FGEX cars, which do not appear in the magazine. I suppose if the editor had to leave some photos out, these should be the ones, considering the original

Ed: I believe that they are still $25 per print. Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 100 14th Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94402 info@... www.speedwitch.com (650) 787-1912

--- In STMFC@..., "englishintroy" <englij@r...> wrote: in a message I posted on 2001 August 17: "At long last and at great expense, I have obtained from the NYCSHS copies of the builder's