Hello everyone, I'm in need of some Grandt Line door guides, like those on this B&M 1924 ARA boxcar by Ted Culotta: http://www.steamfreightcars.com/modeling/models/culotta/bm71968main.htm l Are

Does anybody have information on Arrowhead-Puritas Waters' water service tank cars? I'm not referring to the "bottle" cars, the ones with the tanks on flat cars. It appears there were some cars in

Burlington had 2 classes of box cars with 4/5 Dreadnaught ends and 9'4" IH. The first group (XM-29) had sides that look something like the classic XM-25/XM-26 (i.e. 6 diagonal braces per side) and

The statements below are not correct. In 1954 Greenville Steel Car Company built 140 XME box cars (Office Order 636) for the General American lease fleet that were placed into the GAEX 100000-124999

Try www.readytrain.com. Mansell Peter Hambly Coquitlam, BC

I have no record of these cars ever going to URTX but I keep finding out new things every day. For those who are curious about why a build date is on the end of the car, this is a home made paint

Hello Arnold Blackcat Publishing in Winnipeg makes decals for the CNR cars, set BC096 and for CPR cars, set BC009. I do not believe that he has a website. Locally for me, TMR Distributing carries them

Arnold, You have a choice, either Westerfield http://www.westerfield.biz/ who have decals for sale from his own versions of the Fowler car or go to, http://www.greatdecals.com/BlackCat.htm and look

Sirs, I have some Fowler box cars from Proto 1000 without marks on it. It has only Canadian Pacific/National on it, with C.N./C.P. XXXXX carnumber on it. So for lettering it prototypicaly i want the

=========================== Didn't the WM and NW have lots of fishbellies and they were soft coal roads? Dave H.

========================== The Pennsy shipped both hard and soft coal and used the same fleet of hoppers to ship both kinds of coal. The pictures of the hard coal mines in Shamokin show H21 hoppers

I am building a P&LE 36' DS box (Funaro), as I need more "shorty" box cars on my layout. This has some interesting half-drop grabs on the sides and ends. Anyhow, I found that the kit contains TWO

I am under the impression that the flow characteristics are different for anthracite and bituminous. In order to be self clearing, cars loaded with anthracite need a steeper slope sheet angle. Hence

Did any of these MDT cars end up in URTX hands in the mid- late 1950s? I've got a Bob's photo of a URTX reefer, and the adjacent car has URTX 55XXX (66XXX?) reporting marks. Being so far to the right,

Shay, PFE reefers on SP passenger trains? Not likely, except for the small number of express reefers operated by PFE, which are unlikely ever to be confused with freight reefers. I've seen

Several responses: - I've put off building mine as well. The protoype Duryea underframe imposes some major appearance changes on the model. Even a resin conversion kit (yet not produced for a 50

Brian, The photo has "PSF" cast into the side frame. I haven't been able to determine the company name for PSF, but wouldn't be surprised if the "SF" part was "Steel Foundries." There was an

Jace wrote: references is the trains, in Bamberger with the golden age of brakemen. Bamberger had four man crews on its freight trains. The crews consisted of a Motorman, Conductor, Brakeman, and a

and --------------------------------------------------- I hadn't realized they are molded on, although I did notice that the long GRABS on the car are skinnier. The ladder rungs don't line up at the

http://southerncarandfoundry.com/ Under Products/ HO freight cars I hadn't heard about this project, although that doesn't mean it wasn't mentioned already. The photo of a preserved car is kind of