[snip] I agree; note also the lower eave height relative to the adjacent Erie 10'0" IH 78000-79199 series box car. Also, what's visible of the door matches photos of the B-50-17s. Interesting that

Ed Mines wrote: The PFE orange did indeed weather in the direction of yellow. Some years ago I was presented at Winterail with a piece of wood from one of the surviving wood-sheathed PFE cars at

For one, the fact that they have exited before doing the Rock Island 4-8-4s! -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

I shouldn't be writing e-mails before my second cup of coffee. You're right, of course, and I now realize that I saw stacks of the Sunshine kits at Naperville only a couple of weeks ago. The first

Patrick Wider wrote: This lettering is famous and IIRC was made into a decal by Walthers. However, to my knowledge there were only two cars ever so assigned. Tony Thompson Editor,

On Mon Nov 14, 2005 Shawn Beckert referenced a photo with UP boxcars in mail service : http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics45/00057025.jpg There has been some speculation here about what those UP boxcars

I experimented a bit with this approach in the distant past (though not with the Tichy underframe) and found that the most vexing problem was getting the length of the running boards exactly right.

Richard, what the...? NP War Emergency box cars are offered by Sunshine. The Challenger cars sold poorly, because they're not even as good as the Sunshine kits. See

Ted's magnificant calendar reminded me of the excellent photos in the aforementioned collection of photos so I revisited the Jack Delano section over the internet. Using "railroad yards" as a key

http://www.kadee.com/ca/40ps1/4301l.htm Bill I think Kadee has the parts to do another BS car, but I see from the web site that these cars took several years to sell out. Perhaps that is why we

Bill, PRECISELY! The AC&F USG-A war emergency tank cars were also built by CC&F. See the article on this bash by Russ Pinchbeck "Canadian Car & Foundry's "War Emergency" 10,000 gallon tank car"

True, and they're nice kits, but the Northern Pacific cars that Armand was asking about were significantly different from all other War Emergency box cars in having 7 bay instead of 9 bay sides, so

Bill Welch wrote Bill, I'm almost certain there was a modeling article on these cars doing exactly what you suggest, less than 10 years ago... I agree it's a crime not to do something with the

Ted's discussion is accurate. Only a few freight cars received yellow Erie diamonds as part of the original paint job but it was used used in some repaint jobs for a couple of years. (Yellow was

I would love the 6 foot version to do a Birmingham Southern PS-1, built I think in 1953 Bill Welch ~->

Inspired by Richard's North American tank car kit bash article featured in Railroad Prototype Modeler, I have decided to build a couple also, but with a different approach. Rather than shortening the

Armand, Check out the Sunshine Kits All Time List posted in the files section of this group. Beginning with Kit No. 29.1 through 29.15, there are kits for war emergency cars of A&WP, BS, CofG, GA,

Is there a good kit of the War Emergency box car available?Armand Premo

My goodness, did I miss a meet in Napierville? Quebec? I was at one in Naperville, Illinois (founded by Capt. Joseph Naper, as I recall). Funny how folks confuse the two in so many