Hey guys I am having a problem with "False Statement".Error yes, False no.I don't think the author deliberately wanted to mislead anyone.-Armand Premo---- To: <STMFC@...> Sent: Thursday,

Nope. All three (Kadee, Athearn, Walthers) are 2893 cuft cars. No one is doing the 3215 or 3500 designs. Tim O. So is it confirmed that Kadee is doing these as well? Todd Horton

Very simply. These weren't considered private reporting marks, just a different reporting mark for the Santa Fe. Cars with these marks appeared in their section of the ORER with all of their ATSF

Is this the same prototype as the ECW 70t AAR Mill gondola? Eric Petersson "New Athearn freight cars N and HO scales 65'-6" mill gondolas. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Chicago, Burlington &

So did this "grandfather" clause permit new offspring? Otherwise how do you explain SFRB/SFRC reporting marks that appeared in the 50's? Tim O'Connor

Garth, I expect the gondolas to have separate wire grabs, but the covered hoppers to only have wire grabs on the end sills, while the ladders and slope sheet grabs will be cast into the body. But

Tony Thompson wrote Nope. All three (Kadee, Athearn, Walthers) are 2893 cuft cars. No one is doing the 3215 or 3500 designs. Tim O.

Bill Welch wrote: As I'm sure Bill knows, the "PS-2" designation applied to all the P-S covered hoppers, regardless of number of bays or cubic capacity. Even for three-bay cars, there are PS-2

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