Tim Gilbert wrote Yep, just as for the 65' gondola, Athearn is going to play "close enough". For example, the Grand Canyon scheme was applied to the Rr-42's which are similar in appearance (in the

Jon The original 50 foot straight line maps said "Santa Fe All The Way" but sometime in the 1940's it changed to "Ship Santa Fe All The Way". The Champ BRH sets have the "Ship" version of the

Unless a car was repainted before 1947, then only the "reweigh" date needs changing. Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...> wrote: As per these captions, it would appear that of the images included

Jon Miller wrote: According to the caption to the photograph of SFRD Rr-30 #37343 on page 213 of Jordan, Hendrickson, et al.'s SFRD REFRIGERATOR CARS, all 100 of the Rr-30's "got the new SUPER CHIEF

Dennis Storzek wrote Dennis, as far as I know they were genuine PS-1's -- C&NW was not the only road to order PS-1's with riveted sides. The C&O had some different PS-1's too -- AAR underframes, but

Charlie Vlk wrote It is confusing. Some new stuff (the wood milk cars) are "Roundhouse" and don't show on the Athearn web site. But plenty of older MDC kits are showing up as Ready-To-Roll Athearn.

Athearn has announced that for the first run all cars will have the straight line map on the other side. Now to get to the rivet counting part, which straight line map, as I believe there were more

Apparently Athearn has not adjusted to the fact that they offer models in more than one scale (3). Also, I'm confused at what the "Roundhouse" brand is supposed to be..... shouldn't this car fall into

With the roof that will come with this model, it seems to me that it will be easy to use it and sheet styrene to build a model of the SFRD's double sheathed cars that were also used to transport

Correct, however Paul will print other scales as long as a minimum of 12 orders are received. Brian Carlson

Hi, all, I'd been away from this group and modeling in total for several months from November through late January, and have since been reading as fast as I can when I've been able to log into STMFC,

Nowhere on his site does it say what scale(s) these are in. Am I correct that these are in the default scale (HO)? Dave Smith

The pother possibility is that the story has been turned around backwards. As I recall, the C&NW had some riveted cars with Pullman's proprietary "PS-1" style ends and roof. Dennis

Works for me! I wouldn't complain if Athearn slapped on SFRD paint if it allowed them to tool up for that one-off MILW welded, round roof box car that was discussed in RPCYC #13! ;> (I have lots of

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