Eric got the Fitz-Hugh Luther reference from my book (the YV bought a number of rebuilt box cars, flat cars, and stock cars from them). The California Railroad Commission report from 1914 uses the

Andy Miller wrote: 1) I live in Mount Carmel PA. 2) I model the B&M. 3) The subject is "essential (sic.) freight cars." The K8 was not essential according to Ted Culotta's definition. 4) That there

Garth Groff wrote: I assume this is an errant digit problem? The "s" should be a "z." Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Eric, Actually, the company was Fitshugh-Luther. Although F-L built no stock cars for the Northern Electric Railway, they did build 50 boxcars, and about 175 flats (the number is a bit uncertain, due

Tim, I'm sorry you are so down on Easterners, but the "poll" was for resin cars and I believe there are enough Pennsy fans alone to warrant a PRR car not yet available except in brass. regards,

Eric... I am not sure if Kyle is on the STMFC list....you might ask him the same question. He is at kwyatt@... Jack Burgess www.yosemitevalleyrr.com

Continuing on with a shameless tradition of hucksterism....the following 3 Sunshine cars are being offered to members of the STMFC fraternity in new condition with out any postage labels. I will wrap

Ed Mines wrote: Wow, what a shocker!! Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax,

--- In STMFC@..., Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@s...> wrote: ..." Since when could a PRR stock car appear on RR's on the West Coast in any quantity to justify a western RR modeler to waste his

Wow!! Hello-world!! Gee,...... I guess I'm not as smart as I thought after all!!! I don't shop that much over the Net, but yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the help. I'll try again. Paul Hillman

Andy Miller wrote: Nonsense! If you remember Ted Culotta's Introduction to "The Essential Freight Car" series on page 79 of the April 2003 RMC, "Essential Freight Cars ... should be present on almost

thanks jack. will try. eric

This past year I assembled a new old-stock Suncoast FGE reefer kit (#6003), and I thoroughly enjoyed both the effort and the result. The kit was all wood, very complete, and required quite a bit of

My only experience with Kadee running boards is applying them to Red Caboose '37 AAR box cars. The RC car comes with wood running boards and my M&StL box cars should have Apex and USG running

I'm surprised at the road names that Walthers is offering for their "new" USRA hopper. NYCentral is absent; I always thought that this car and it's clones were very common on that

cart", a page comes up saying, "You cart's empty, continue shopping."< Ah, did the same thing myself. You need to put the number 1 in how many books you want. Easy mistake to make as it took me

I see a lot of interest in PRR K8 stock cars. Weren't these the prototypes or close to prototypes for Ambroid's stock car kit? I don't think it's that bad and if the wooden parts representing

Larry- Sorry I questioned you in group. Corn starch is converted to corn syrup (a sweetener) with sulfuric acid. One of my favorite steam loco books - "Eastern Steam Pictorial" by Paul Carlton

If this is a poll, you have my vote. Hear, hear, K8s, K8s, K8s! And how about X29Bs. There are rumors that F&C will do one this year. It appears that C&BT is long forgotten. regards, Andy

ALL of book billing and **************************************************************** Jon, Well, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but when I click on "Add to cart", a page comes up saying, "You