Bill Welch wrote: Peter Weiglin got it wrong, and you got it right, Bill. The date was around 1915, and the existing car lines were grandfathered. Of course, Mr. Hundman dislikes criticism, so a

Richard Hendrickson wrote: I realized that after yesterday's edition of "Athearn News" finally got to me. More coffee in the morning before posting to the list would help. Of greater concern to me is

No, they're doing the Santa Fe version as a Ga-47 or Ga-48 class car with AAR trucks rather than the Ga-55 class, which had National B-1s. Richard Hendrickson

Shawn, you mis-read the announcement. The road names you list are those for the PS-2 covered hoppers. Road names for the first run of the 65'6" mill gons are Santa Fe, Burlington, Southern, Nickel

Friends, It's a bit hard to tell from Athearn's images. Do these two new cars have separate grab irons and other detail parts, or the usual trainset blobs of plastic? Kind regards, Garth G.

Ken and Bill, The photo of the Santa Fe PS-2 shown at this link is one of only three groups of 2893 c.f. PS-2s with hatch spacing as shown (the others were two series owned by Southern Ry. and only

Yukkkkkk!! There's that nasty statement again, "Fully Assembled!" ;) Phil Buchwald bwelch@u... original

Thanks for pursuing this with them, Richard. It is about time we had a decent 65' gon! Elden Gatwood

I want to invite all modelers/historians interested in prototype railroad modeling to an informal gathering August 27, 2004, from 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM or so. We will gather in the "Program

I know there are two versions of the three bay Pullman PS2 under development, one being the early version (early fifties) and other beig a later version. Is the Athearn version the original

This will be a great opportunity for some entrepreneurial decal maker, as I note two railroads at least, L&N & NC&StL, are not listed in Athearn's plans. Bill

lnbill wrote: Bill, You are - A specific example would be WFEX which was controlled by the GN and began operations on September 1, 1923 - WFEX having acquired GN's "fruit transportation

You are correct. Tom

Begin forwarded message: Here are the links to the Athearn site for these cars. Richard: I don't suppose they are tooling a 70-ton National Type B truck are they? If they are, they'd look good

writes: Yes. If you look at the Athearn annoucement PDF files, it shows the original version with evenly spaced hatches and channel rib above the

I was researching the Berwind coal hoppers with the C&O RHS for a friend who models the C&O Alleghany Sub-Division between Hinton and Clifton Forge. There were, as stated, two branches of this

No. The 1941 LV cars were built to a different design. Richard Hendrickson

Richard or anyone else knowledgeable. The LV had some 65'-6" mill gons. A picture of 34174 is in the 1943 CBC directly below an ATSF GA-55. The LV picture is not well exposed. I can tell the ends are

It's my understanding that Athearn will do a RTR '50s version of either the Ga-47 or Ga-48 class (built in 1937 and 1940). The models themselves will also be essentially accurate for the Ga-55 class

I just got the new Walthers flyer with the Dairymen's wood milk car on page 4. This is similar to my MDC/Branchline car, down to the car #! Both are painted olive green, (not the white style you