Blair, I went back and checked all my 40' rosters of AAR-style box cars and can find no welded-side box cars for CNW. Is your friend positive these existed, and if so, did they exist in the pre-1960

a car with 50 ton look up the UP Mike, most modelers think that the alternate standard looks pretty close to the conventional old Athearn and Atlas standard cars which are a lot less expensive than

Dave, Sorry to say, but the 1953 General American gondolas were not SN, just WP and D&RGW. The SN gons were a 1957 series of only 100 cars built by AC&F for the WP (75), with subsidiaries SN taking

Garth Groff wrote: No, no, Garth! Look at the initials. It was "God's Wonderful Railway." GWR fans still enjoy saying that today. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

We have a winner! regards, Andy Miller

total production of 100 prototype cars when the AAR Alt Standard 50 ton hopper...about 50,000 prototype cars ...has never been built Mike, The reason, which seems anathema to some -- is simple

Mike Brock wrote: Sheeeessshhhhhh. Complain, complain, complain. Ya got 6.67777% of the entire class in the darn Athearn ad already. Print a copy, stick on the layout room wall someplace and tell

My understanding is that this project was tooled by a new to model trains toolmaker who has previously worked for Tamaya, an extremely well-respected plastic maker of aircraft and vehicles. Glad to

I'll add that zooming in on the Athearn artwork shows "New 6-40" for the reweigh on all of the schemes offered <G>. Of course, that may or may not reflect the actual product that they will

As I recall, the message read: "Turkey trots to water. Where is Task Force 34? The whole world wonders". Nimitz was simply asking about the status of Task Force 34 which had been planned to be

BTW, you can zoom in on the model image a lot easier with the pdf link version that Andy supplied. It looks pretty sweet. http://www.athearn.com/Newsletter/041806/50_ice_reefer_041806.pdf Eric

Hi Garth, Athearn hasn't said anything about maps vs. "Ship and Travel" slogans, but the train slogans the announcement shows are all earlier types that are consistent with maps on the opposite side.

Andy Miller: [snip] "Where is the third fleet?", which was obviously a reference to the third group of Santa Fe 50' frozen food reefers scheduled to traverse Sherman Hill that November. Tom Madden

Folks: I am selling six CB&Q stockcars by Challenger. Three are SM-16's and three are SM-18's. The road numbers are different. All are in factory paint. I am asking $150 each, plus shipping.

Andy and friends, Nice car. The hatch platforms, reversed hatch covers mark this car as no later than the early 1950s. They don't show us the reverse side. Do you suppose it will be "Ship and Travel"

Keith, The question I have is which of the paint schemes offered by Athearn is correct for the Rr-30, or are all of them correct -- for the same time

For those who haven't seen it yet, this is from today's online "Athearn News": HO 50' Santa Fe Ice Reefer (Now THIS is the BIG NEWS of this group of announcements. We're glad that you got this far.

An interesting aside regarding this discussion. I finally got the Athearn news announcement this morning (Thursday) at 1:15 and can now see what everyone's been talking about. (I never saw a link in

If one were to have a frozen food warehouse as an on-line industry, the probability of seeing these cars goes up. BTW "The World Wonders" was not part of Nimitz's message it was the "pad", a random

Schuyler, Well, there was the Great Western (of England) with 7' gauge. No wonder they called it "God's own railway." Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Schuyler Larrabee wrote: