Clark and others, I checked the site just this morning, and it came up. Wow! I am overwhelmed. Wish I could get to Naperville. Tom

I have a few shots of IOX cars, but they are the narrow gauge versions in Newfoundland, Canada. One is a single dome, two shots of double dome cars. Andrew

Thanks for pointing out the drawings of IOX 3150 Steve. Canadian Railway Modeller republished a version of these drawings with a photo and dimensional information a few years back (the pages I saved

Mike and list, When InterMountain first entered the N scale market, I called them about obtaining parts and in a fairly wide ranging discussion, I-M freely admitted that many cars were

Phil Buchwald writes: Well....I hate to be the first one to tell you this...but...uh...Intermountain is not ruled by prototypically correct paint schemes. In fact, the R-40-23 is a very good model

Great photos! There is one photo at the link below which shows a prototype which is very similar to the Walthers horizontal belt steel reefers.

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Rob, I have a copy of that photo that I purchased from Frank Ellington years ago. I am not sure that this car really has truss rods. The outer part of the underframe is pretty substatial and you

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Imperial Oil was 70% owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey (trade name ESSO). UTL was the lessor for all "Baby Standard" fleets after the break up of the Trust in 1911.

And Richard Hendrickson replied Definitely a UTL Class X tank car, Ron. UTL apparently had a close relationship with Imperial Oil, whose 2,200 car tank car fleet they purchased in 1953,

Thanks Dennis Actually, its modelling inteurbans that is the reason why I asked My principle modelling interest is Pacific Electrics Southern District, although, my concern doesn't isn't here. -

Rupert Gamlen wrote: Plywood was widely used in World War II and supposedly had been much improved. The "Douglas Fir Plywood Association" promoted it widely for many uses, from homebuilding to

Re. the "War Babies" article in the RP CYC on wartime reefers for FGE, BRE and WFE " I am wondering why plywood wasn't retained for wood-sided cars. Longevity, or ease of repair?" Thanks for these

As Ben Hom has already answered, the problem was in adequate sealing of the edges of the plywood sheets. Soo Line had the same problem with box cars having single sheathing of plywood. Rubber

Definitely a UTL Class X tank car, Ron. UTL apparently had a close relationship with Imperial Oil, whose 2,200 car tank car fleet they purchased in 1953, and may have licensed Imperial to have cars

I've found a photograph at the Glenbow Museum online photo archive at: <http://ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosSearch.aspx> that shows IOX 2144 among others, filling with gasoline in Calgary,

Since my last e-mail on this subject, I've noticed (again) a very good shot of a similar three tank car, UTLX 13504 in Edward Kaminski's Tank Cars: American Car & Foundry Co. 1865 to 1955, p.150.

Rupert Gamelin wrote: "I noted that BRE reverted to tongue & groove for its next group of cars in 1944, and that plywood sided cars of all three companies requiring attention were re-sheathed with

Oh great.... I justified that last resin kit by telling the wife how lucky she was that I was spending the money on trains instead of beer! Phil Buchwald

Re. the "War Babies" article in the RP CYC on wartime reefers for FGE, BRE and WFE I noted that BRE reverted to tongue & groove for its next group of cars in 1944, and that plywood sided cars of all