Model power bought Mantua tooling. I think Mantua also had the Tyco tooling. Check with Model Power Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@...\ You can't have everything. Where would you put

Spotted one error in my X28 article which is entirely my fault on page 31: Current: Class X28A can be distinguished from Class X29 by its taller height and six panels to the left of the door,

Help, guys. I need a large number of CG 9 and 11 panel gons; Sunshine makes a kit, but at $30.00 a pop I can't get many. At one point, TYCO made some suitable gons. Where can I find some? I rarely

Thank you very much for that very informative post - an example of why I think this is perhaps the best railroad newsgroup. Tom Cornillie www-personal.umich.edu/~tcornill/CGW_601.html I am not

Actually there were three groups of these cars: 25 74'5" cars were constructed by Canadian Car & Foundry in 10-11/1956 under lot 2141 at 570400-570424. 50 more were built in 4/1959 under lot 2257

Lehigh Valley used to run solid blocks of empty gons at the head of trains. There's a photo of one of these trains in the Summer '04 issue of "Locomotive Quarterly". There a couple of photos

UOCX lettering was, in fact, aluminum on black. Also true of a number of other tank car operators, though it's difficult (often impossible) to tell the difference in a B/W photo. Richard

Hi Paul, There are many scale and accurate cars available in O scale. Intermountain had box cars, a reefer, a tank, the USRA hopper and a USRA gon. Many dealers like my self, have both kits and RTR

Roger, Could well be : Pittsburgh, Ft.Wayne & Chicago RR. This was one of the lines incorproated into Pennsylvania Lines [ west of Pitts.]. Then into the PRR. Try the PRRlines west website,

Bill, Try keystone crossings for a link to Bill Lanes photo collection of builder's photos, this may have what you seek. Fred Freitas

Tom Cornillie, "rrhistorian," wrote: Just a hair past the purview of this list, Tom. I thought there were just a few as prototypes at that era, but this does creep onto the present

Black cars, but I don't know for sure about silver vs. white lettering. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Hi All, I will be spending the next month or so in Columbia, South Carolina with some side trips to Athens (GA) and Charleston (SC) and was wondering if anyone could suggest possible layouts to see.

First I want to thank Richard and Tony for their prompt response to my previous inquiry (message 41795). Nothing like having experts helping you! My question was not clearly stated based on the

During some research I was conducting regarding flat cars, I came across an interesting photo that might be worth a comment. Recently there was some discussion about the placement of empty flat cars

I'm finally getting around to applying the decals to my Central Valley NP stock car. There is a lettering diagram, but since there are a few small variations in the lettering available: "Length

Hello all, I saw this post on trainorders.com where a poster states that the original auto-carriers have been sold to a scrap dealer in

Thanks Frank. All the models are great but Bobby Pitts tankcars wowed me! Frank Greene <fgreen01@...> wrote: I created an album containing some of the digital pictures I took at the

I created an album containing some of the digital pictures I took at the 2005 Savannah Prototype Modelers Meet: http://frankg290.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=5172. Thanks for

The June 2005 issue of The Keystone Modeler is online at http://www.prrths.com/Keystone%20Modeler/Keystone_Modeler.htm Articles of interest include: - 2005 Annual Meeting Contest Winners - Modeling