Al... I wonder if your load will fit Sunshine's Greenville car (same prototype as the Proto2000). It came with thin-wall sides. I can test fit it for you, if you're interested. ;o) Timothy O'Connor

Just doing some tests to see if my Youngstown containers would fit in the Intermountain and Lifelike kits - I plan to issue a 10 container load for Mop. Turns out the Lifelike car is about 6"

Dave and others, I have a copy of Ron Glas's 1990 compilation of available Copeland resources located at NWU. I'd be happy to quote from it, but it would better to find Ron and get permission for me

Tim, Look again, 57801 is not a Van Dyke car. I don't think that they lasted past 1953. There are only five standard gauge cars listed in the 7-53 ORER. Bill Kelly Tim

M.D. McCarter has a couple of photos of B&O milk cars from the series 824-850, which were standard ice bunker reefers. He took the photos in '48, but the latest equipment register I have for

Richard and Gang, Ok, so I looked up Precision Scale's Van Dyke tank at the Walthers website. It's in stock for $18 or so. Odd looking little monster. How long did these last in interchange, the

I agree with Richard Hendrickson that photographic or other documentation is the best approach to determining the ratio of home road and foreign road cars. The photos and videos available to me show

<Dave Nelson wrote: Larry, where did you find the H.H. Copeland reports? What year do they cover?> The Guide to RR Historical Resources by Taber lists the Copeland Reports (on interchange and

<John Nehrich wrote: One of our members is assembling a bunch of the Stewart channel side hoppers, and wanted to know what trucks to use. I found one picture where I think the car had Andrews, but it

No, it's the UTLX class X design which followed the VanDyke cars (class V) after the Master Car Builders' Assn. ruled that tank cars had to have center sills, rather than transmitting pulling and

Shawn - The Van Dyke cars had no underframe. The biggest problem with the MDC kit is that in order to get in enough weight in the underframe, they made it about twice as tall, so the tank sits way too

List, I have questions to ask about a certain MDC tank car kit, though I've a good idea what the answer will be. I just received several M.D. McCarter prints of UTLX tank cars that appear to have

I have only one photo of a WM channel side car and it dates from ca. 1961, after Andrews trucks were banned in interchange, so it may have had Andrews trucks earlier in life. The trucks in the photo

Yeah, that's my work alright. The data here that I think is an eye opener is the sum of cells J12 and J21 (totals about 25%), which is the percentage of ALL away from home boxcars that are marked

Steam Listers, I have in my possession a copy of "Freight Car Journal No. 63: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway". It's a great reference work, a decent substitute for

I just uploaded "Home vs Foreign.xls", which is an Excel spreadsheet that I received (IIRC) from Dave Nelson. It's in the files area at www.yahoogroups.com. BTW, the data I have from Railway Age

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:19:59 -0500 "John Nehrich" <nehrij@...> writes: John, One thing to keep in mind is that the Stewart kit is a poor representation of only the cars that WM rebuilt in 1952.

I've bitten the bullet and STARTED writing up a synopsis of freight car paint schemes at: http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/rolling-stock/Freight-Car-Paint-Sch emes.html I have a LOT to go,

Warren Dickinson asks: Depends on the railroad, the era, and the particular part of the railroad, Warren. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA

One of our members is assembling a bunch of the Stewart channel side hoppers, and wanted to know what trucks to use. I found one picture where I think the car had Andrews, but it isn't clear, and one