Bill Welch wrote: When I last talked to a friend who worked at Peterbilt (a connected company) about ten years ago, he said all the PC&F archives were boxed up and in storage. Whether that is

Pat Wider wrote (responding to Randy Hees): It was well recognized, all right: by the operating boys. Mechanical departments disliked this idea, as weight savings often meant different designs

Tim O'Connor wrote: Some of what vendors tell you is to make your eyes glaze over and your legs take you away. Some of it is natural "protective coloration" to disguise actual intentions. And

I am curious to know if anyone on the list has any "definitive" information on the disposition of the Builder's photos files from Pacific Car & Foundry. A gift of 5 photos of Western Fruit & Fruit

Maybe, but the carbuilders obviously were, how else do you explain the experimental lightweight box cars built by AC&F, P-S, General American, et al. circa 1940? To quote the P-S ad in the 1940

IMO those Milwaukee gons would make an excellent project for Sunshine to produce... they are too late for Westerfield. I've seen a photo of them on the SSW in Texarkana, so they got around. Tim

Elden If flat cars don't sell, then who do we have to thank for Proto, Red Caboose, Walthers, Atlas, and Intermountain flat cars? And Athearn recently spiffed up their TOFC cars and is offering the

I don't know about tank cars as LL and IM (and Tichy) have done a bunch with a new LL one coming. Maybe a better statement would be small (4K or 6K) as well as multiple dome cars, don't sell. The

Bill Welch wrote: Bill, I believe the answer is no, something for the B&OHS to consider. It is a stencil with the painting information: such as the manufacturer use, the date, etc. My understanding

Jon and all; In some of my recent interactions with manufacturers and sellers I am also being told very disturbing stuff like "flat cars don't sell", "gondolas don't sell", and "tank cars don't

After these cars drifted into my brain last month, lo and behold Classic Trains runs a photo of the MILW in the Northwest with 3! of these cars in one photo. "can't be that hard to make", I says

My wife ordered it for me from a commercial mail order catalog; it should be readily available in both videotape and DVD. The title is "Otto Perry's Santa Fe" and it was produced by the Rocky

I am in the process of decaling Sunshine's B&O's M27f and M15k and I notice that near the handgrabs on the left end of each side there is is a small rectangular stencil This is not included in the

until last winter from Sunshine Models in urethane.< I believe that certain models that both Sunshine and Westerfield have in resin will be done in injection plastic. The guesses are which ones,

There was historically a difference between the roof structure (carlines and purlines) and the sheeting (double board wood, Murphy, etc.) so until recently strong and rigid are functions of the

I believe it was a Thomas kit. eric [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Richard, Jon, and others, Glad that's straightened out, and glad that (both!) the cars do appear to be correct. Thanks for all of the information. Dan Miller

List: In regard to the Mather box and stock cars, there had been a remark during one of the discussions several months ago that the underframes on the urethane Mather kits from Sunshine Models were

The interesting thing is that both the ACF 1947 Welded cars (now available from Branchline) and the Wood Sheathed General American cars (now available from Broadway Limited and Walther's) had been

In regard to the information on the REA equipment that I posted from the Roseman Book and the Sunshine instructions, the Branchline website also listed in-service dates for the red-white REA logo and