Hi Folks Here are the distributions of double sheathed, single sheathed and steel box and auto cars for several RRs as of July, 1950. I'll post more later. ATSF . . Percent . .Number DS . . . .

I have a couple Silver Streak kits on the shelf awaiting construction. Maybe someday. Robert Federle ---- Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote:

Class A-50-16, built in 1947, all-steel double doors (originally 500 cars). Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Armand Premo wrote: There was no intention to provide a complete history of HO kits <g>, just choosing a couple of examples. Speaking just for me, I loved Silver Streak kits in those

What is John's e-mail address? Prototype N Scale Models by George Hollwedel proto.nscale@... 310 Loma Verde Street Buda, TX 78610-9785 512-796-6883

Anthony Thompson: So, just how many of us are there? This list's home page says 1,244 members. Yet when I spoke with John Engstrom at Springfield about the idea of undecorated versions of the 65'

I watched an interesting financial show this morning where the guest was talking about the trillions of dollars that we have in debt to other nations is coming back to haunt us. Will the Chinese have

Now if you go back to 1956 and glance through the adds in the MR for that year you will find many more kit makers listed than you already mentioned. Aunthenticast, Ayres, Binkly/Laconia, Cliff Line,

Thanks. Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: On Feb 2, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Steve Bishop superlab2003 wrote: The correct trucks for these models are Eastern Car Works' own

Does anyone know of a source for good photos and drawings of the Hutchins boxcar end? Frank Valoczy Modelling the Piedmont & Northern in TT.

How many kit builders? Well, there are more than a few. I have been manufacturing Ho/HOn3 kits for 35+ years and am still going strong and adding new ones each month. Of course the narrow

Might as well throw Walthers and Red Ball out there too. Robert Federle ---- Frederick Freitas <prrinvt@...> wrote:

Guyz, Allow me to fill in 3 more; Megow, Kaisner, and Laconia. Fred Freitas ljack70117@... wrote: Did I see John English in the list? Thank you Larry Jackman Boca

To which Richard replied: Matt and Richard, Side and end ladders came in multiple ways for the 10'-6" IH AAR box cars built from 1945 to 1960. Cars of this type built in "Richard's era" of October

Everyone is probably already familiar with my efforts to get the SAL's B-7 Round Roof (or Turtle-Back), 19000-19499 series boxcars produced in my new scale of interest - S scale. But I have just this

Many thanks to the following people answered my request for help in pinning down the split between double sheathed and single sheathed box and auto cars for the U.S. fleet in July, 1950: Jim Brewer,

Did I see John English in the list? Thank you Larry Jackman Boca Raton FL ljack70117@... I was born with nothing and I have most of it left

Ambroid too.Armand Premo

And Armand, you forgot Quality Craft, Suydam and Penn Line to name a few more. Robert Federle ---- "A. Premo" <armprem@...> wrote:

Tony Thompson wrote: Which is why many of us who were interested in scratchbuilding gravitated to narrow gauge. The sort of detailed prototype information we now take for granted began surfacing for