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Re: B&O Wagon Top Box - Model RR Warehouse?

Thanks! I've seen the magazine ad for Mount Clare Shops years ago, but didn't know they were still available. Question: I've read here that the West Shore M-53 is slightly smaller than

By buchwaldfam <duff@...> · #39544 ·

Re: Suggestions for decaling a spare IM USRA Composite gon?

stefanelaine wrote: Assume for a minute that the SLSF gon would appear on the SP in California only if there was some commodity could be loaded on the Frisco that somebody in California wanted. Who

By Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...> · #39543 ·

Re: NYC 40 ft Sheathed Boxcar (X-29)

No, Tim, Lot 439-B (capital "B", pleases) were regular USRA steel cars. For non-USRA steel cars, I don't know where anybody got the idea that NYC had anything other than the 100 cars in Lot

By Jeff English · #39542 ·

Re: Suggestions for decaling a spare IM USRA Composite gon?

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

By Eric · #39548 ·

Re: Suggestions for decaling a spare IM USRA Composite gon?

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

By oliver · #39541 ·

Re: Suggestions for decaling a spare IM USRA Composite gon?

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

By oliver · #39540 ·

Re: Suggestions for decaling a spare IM USRA Composite gon?

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

By oliver · #39539 ·

Re: Suggestions for decaling a spare IM USRA Composite gon?

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

By Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton <smokeandsteam@...> · #39538 ·

Re: nice pics

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

By smithbf@... · #39537 ·

Re: B&O Wagon Top Box - Model RR Warehouse?

By Schuyler Larrabee · #39536 ·

Re: nice pics

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

By Brian J Carlson <brian@...> · #39535 ·

Re: Digest Number 2348

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

By Lou <loumickie@...> · #39534 ·

Re: Repack dates

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

By Rich Yoder · #39533 ·

Re: Open and Prepay Stations

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

By Shawn Beckert · #39532 ·

Re: ADMIN: CSX, Licensing etc is out of scope. However...

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,

By Jon Miller <atsf@...> · #39531 ·

Re: ADMIN: CSX, Licensing etc is out of scope. However...

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

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #39530 ·

Re: ADMIN: CSX, Licensing etc is out of scope. However...

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

By Jon Miller <atsf@...> · #39529 ·

ADMIN: CSX, Licensing etc is out of scope. However...

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

By Mike Brock <brockm@...> · #39528 ·

Re: I/M FGEX Reefer

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

By cvsne <cv_sne@...> · #39526 ·

Re: I/M FGEX Reefer

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.

By lnbill <bwelch@...> · #39525 ·

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