Charlie, From a quick glance at the Painting and Lettering Guide, it appears that your comments on paint colors are quite valid. For the 1946 date, the printed history, in general, confirms your

Am getting close to finishing the Westerfield Bx-12 kit with the extended roof. Am modeling a boxcar with a lightweight date of 3-46. Would like to verify what I 'think'is the right color scheme for

Ed Mines wrote: We rejected the book in the form it then existed, so I know a lot about it. It has a superb history of the evolution of hopper cars, which appears to be the product of

Has anyone seen the O&W hopper book? Does it cover cars from other railroads? Are there a lot of photos? Ed

Kurt, the 1950 ORER shows the number series 6101-6300 with dimensions identical to the other number series. I have two photos of cars in this series which appear to be identical to the earlier Cudahy

Based on the photographs in Santa fe Railway rolling stock reference series volume 2, Refrigerators cars, It appears the USRA rebuild up to RR-34 kept top operated couplers and RR-35 onward (postwar

I tried sending this note out last night but not all of the lists got notified, thanks to Yahoo's screening. Effective immediately, my email address is changed to jimking3@.... The old

Kurt, Nice work. When I can see straight(tomorrow), I'll look at the data and see how they line up. Thanks, Joe Binish

TIA, Joe Binish > Joe, FWIW, I compiled a table a while back of the 1961 ORER dimensions for various wood reefers pictured in my references compared to the MDC 36 foot meat reefer, the Mehano/AHM(?)

Here's a new list that has nothing to do with freight cars directly, but certainly relates to our period of interest and therefore might be of interest to the group. To quote: "50's and older

Ed Hawkins wrote: "Also possibly the D&M (5000-5024), which I've never come across a good photo to confirm for sure." Ed, there's a photo of D&M 5003 on page 25 of Henderson's Classic Freight Cars

Ihave a further question for Dr. H. You mention in the article(I am in the material acquisition phase of modelling one of these cars) that the MDC model is "close to the correct dimensions". Could

The "AAR Alternate Standard" was essentially the Unitcast offset-side hopper first built for the AMC roads (C&O, NKP, and Erie) in 1934. It was 4 inches lower than the standard design and had

In the May 93 RMC Richard Hendrickson had an article on making a Cudahy reefer from the MDC 36 foot wood reefer. He mentioned that Cudahy (CRLX) had two series of these cars, 5701-5850 and 5901-6100

Thanks Tony. I'll have to get that article and your book. KL

Kurt Laughlin wrote: Kurt, in my article in the January, 1988 RMC I showed my model of a PFE Class R-70-8 made from a Lima body. The Athearn is probably better overall, though it needs work too.

>> "The model has the lower, almost square screen on the left B end side, and a rectangular louver on the right B side. Is that correct? If not, I might just junk it and get an Athearn. Louvers are

Good moring Group, I am completing the assembly of an IMWX model of a 1937 AAR Northern Pacific boxcar and have a question regarding what color the underbody and trucks would have been painted in the

Kurt Laughlin wrote: "The model has the lower, almost square screen on the left B end side, and a rectangular louver on the right B side. Is that correct? If not, I might just junk it and get an

Hey Jared, I don't recall calling Richard and/or Ed "fat", but if I did I didn't communicate properly. If anything, we're all fat (with knowledge) because of the hard work these guys do and the