On Behalf Of Thomas M. Olsen Witness the new version of the Jones & Laughlin tank car. WHY? A dumb looking car that never went anywhere. SGL

Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton wrote According to a Mainline Modeler, Dec 1986 article they received steel side sheathing in 1949. Many may have become log cars 1000-2199. (From the 1953 ORER, these log

Can anyone on the list help me out with a question about a detail on a 40 ft PS-1 boxcar that I am lettering for Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Ry series 12201-12400. Can someone with a

I am reminded that Overland used to offer the parts for the RR-27 group that had the diagonal fitting described in an earlier posting, and applied to the last of the RR-30 group. I purchased a package

Mr. Madden opined: Actually, all 100 reefers were shipped from LA to Hawaii, surreptitiously aboard a Matson freighter to serve aboard the Enterprise as Halsey's frozen food lockers. Hangar space was

From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of Richard White Tichy war emergency composite mill gondola (undecorated is part no 293-4041)<< Not IC to the best of my

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