I know that it's being seriously considered, but AFAIK no one is cutting tooling as yet. Richard Hendrickson

are offered by Precision Scale in an injection molded kit, but the model is really of a narrow gauge car that had been converted from a standard gauge car< These are actually sold in both gauges.

Armand Premo wrote: "Now if beer had been transported in tank cars, I might be interested." Larry Jackman replied: "It is is it not? Coors ships a lot of beer to the east coast for bottling. How

Thanks for responding Bob I will nudge Ted to consider this little detail decal. It makes the most sense to combine this with other desireable little decal details of a similar nature. More ideas

Bruce, I like this idea! Maybe it's a good idea for a Sunshine mini-kit. If there was a rivet-wrapper for the IM body and a couple of dome castings, would that resemble any prototype? Tim O.

If you believe their current TV ad, they ship their beer in a special stainless steel train with a bullet-nose steam engine leaking refrigerant from every car! regards, Andy Miller

Marcelo, Think about the following: AC&F type 11 - This was offered by Sunset in brass as the PRR TM8, then in multiple bogus schemes. The Sunset model is "coarse" by today's standards. This was

It is is it not? Coors ships a lot of beer to the east coast for bottling. How does it go there? Although you use the term Beer very very loosely when you use it with the name Coors. Thank you Larry

Richard, Do you know if someone is working on a plastic model of the NYC's boxcars based on the USRA all steel box car, ie like NYC Lot 439-B? Considering how many were built, this would have to be

I have been kit bashing 4k tank cars for a while. So now that I have what I need, its time for a manufacturer to make magnificent models in plastic for

Larry has already mentioned one leaking in a yard; how do you think they got that way? Seriously, I was using a camera at the time. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

Thanks Tim, Let's think on some cars and choose one(tank car ?). Which one? Regards Marcelo Lordeiro

Brian, Is shooting a 40' Pfaudler milk car like shooting an intruder, or like shooting the bull ? ;-) regards, Andy Miller

Of course! But the fact remains that bulk wine travelled quite far and wide for the reasons Richard explained, and so the cars may be uncommon, but nevertheless -did- travel many routes. In fact

Obviously, I made a mistake. AR is the abbreviation for Arkansas, not AK! LOL! (At least I know someone is reading these!!!!) -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

Now if beer had been transported in tank cars,I might be interested.Armand Premo

We had one come through the Emporia Ks yard on the Santa Fe one night. It was leaking. Interesting night that night. Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@... It is said that if you line up all

Richard Hendrickson wrote: I wonder sometimes whether the "abundant photographic evidence" is more related to the oddity of a car than to quantity. Tim Gilbert

At 10:44 PM 9/21/2005 -0500, Brian wrote: "Not entirely useless. Chateau Martin owned at least one Pfaudler steel 40' car, which I shot in Pine Bluff, AK. #CMWX 1008 Sadly, the date falls outside the

At 11:38 PM 9/21/05, you wrote: If we can get injection-molded styrene Richard, Thank you for your excellent response! I have no problem with the production of models of any car. I also now better