Don Worthy wrote: I don't know that there is one. They just tooled a new wood side for the existing roof-ends piece. That said, it can be converted to a stand-in for a PFE rebuilt car. See my

I've been looking for this 1930 film for quite some time, as it's been discussed on this list and others as a terrific railroad film. Tonight, I got a link to www.archive.org and it is one of

Don, You need Tony Thompson's PFE book and that'll answer all the questions you'll ever have (even has paint chips). The Athearn car is indeed based on the PFE R-40-23. He also had an extensive series

With so much knowledge and interest on this list, what if individuals took responsibility for short summary of the railroad(s) that they know about. Upload to the shared files folder. Let other

--- cf5250 <timboconnor@...> wrote: Yes, this is what I alluded to by saying plan to copy every 5 years AND plan to update/convert files to newer formats. Oh, and scan at the highest

Thank you, both. Do either of you know what years the articles about these cars would be in? I've got years of MRs in box after box. I'm thinking these articles had the paint information and other

Don, AFAIK it's a model of a PFE R40-23. It's a good stand-in, being dimensionally correct with appropriate details. But it is ancient molding technology and far better models are available now

Numbered page '16' is in my download -- as the seventeenth (page 12 throws off the number sequence) of thirty-five pages. Storey Lindsay Celje, Slovenia

Greetings All, Another consideration for keeping files sharp is the way they are stored. A pile of files in a drawer will dull every time they rub against each other as you open your toolbox.

Anyone missing page 16 should send an email to bierglaeser at yahoo dot com. I will send the missing page as a jpeg attachment. It turns out that I have that page albeit missing some verbiage that I

Train Shed Cyc #3 (1931) and #61 (1925) show both cars. The RI cars are ventilated with tiny (3" dia.) vents high on each end and roof vents (illustrated on page 157 of the 1925 CBC). The RI and PFE

Jace is correct. Though many of the GN TR box cars were originallybuilt with wood center sills, all were converted to steel draft sills in order to conform with the ARA ruling that outlawed wood

Jerry, personally many years ago I started entering items into simple text files on my PC. I have hundreds of them, one each for most major railroads and many dozens of special files based on car

Dave Eggleston wrote I will make a bet: CD's as they exist now, will be totally unreadable in 100 years, much less 300. That's because no hardware or software will exist for them. Heaven only

group, could someone tell me what the proto-type was for the old Athearn steelside 40ft reefer? I remember, years ago, there were articles in MR or MRC for modifying them into other types and classes.

Keith Jordan wrote: "I've not compared to the same color [MEC Harvest Gold] in Polly Scale, though. I wonder how it compares?" Pretty close, Keith ­ close enough for jazz, as we say in my home

I can't claim much expertise on the GN (or perhaps, given the knowledge base on this list, even much else), but I have some recollection of having read that the GN cars also had a steel channel center

Maybe when making the file they made a mistake and miss numbered page 16 as 17 and so on. I do not have 16 either. Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@...

As I recall, Bill McClung was considering issuing the O scale kits in RI lettering, as the prototypes were quite close, and an obvious concern is to find acceptable alternatives to utilize existing

It should be, Tim, since that's the color that IMRC and CB&T matched their paint/body colors to! I happened upon the color when I was doing the research for the old CB&T cars. I've not compared to