Brian, I have never been quite sure of the time frame when the cars received steel sides. The Dec. 1965 N&W diagram sheet for the cars states, "Heavy repairs with wood slope sheets and sides being

While it's true that much Fontana coal and ore came from Utah, I have not seen photos of MP hoppers on the Rio Grande or UP in that area. I think it's idle speculation in the absence of photos. Tim

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Nearly all this coal was western Colorado/eastern Utah coal. There are photos of both Utah Coal Route gons, and D&RGW gons and hoppers, at Kaiser. Given the historic

In the '50s coal for the Kaiser steel mill at Fontana came across Cajon Pass in MoPac hoppers, though I don't know where it came from. The Kaiser mill was the only So. Calif. recipient of coal in

Doug Gardner asked: And Tim O'Connor correctly replied: These are Terry Wegmann's kits, and if anyone has them available it will be Andy. Terry had some of them assembled and marketed

Tim There was some anthracite found in Arkansas in the large cola fields along the Arkansas River northwest Little Rock. Also the bituminous coal found in western end of the Arkansas coal field

I don't know if anthracite was found along the MP, but I've seen photos of lots of MP coal hoppers in the Santa Fe yard in San Bernadino, California. I guess this coal came from Missouri or

Russ Strodtz wrote regardling long distance cargos Also Perlite is a New Mexico commodity, transported by the Santa Fe. Lompoc California on the SP was the largest producer in the world for many

i've had DA wire break too, but only after bending and rebending... nowadays i mostly use CMA wire, which is more flexible (and comes in protective plastic tubes). i use .015 steel (piano) wire too

Andy Carlson

Kurt wrote The original Red Caboose tooling had issues, I think these were 400x, 410x, 420x kits. The revised body was 415x kits. The only 44xx kit I have is painted for NP -- this is a revised body

Over the past year or so I've been buying car kits with the eventual goal of populating my future (and frequently changing) layout. Now that I've got the track plan down pretty well I find I've got

Does anyone know where to purchase these kits ???? Doug Gardner

Thanks Jim, Bummer. Looks like this goes in the sell pile for the Railfest show Kirtland OH in a few weeks. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Brian, The December 2000 RMJ Hawkins article contains a roster of the AAR Emergency 50-Ton Composite Hoppers based upon ORER information. This roster shows that as of April 1957, the Wabash had 398

Group, While the post-1945 paint color for B&O boxcars is pretty well documented for modeling purposes (zinc-chromate primer is good start). I am looking for more information about the pre-1945

wrote: photo to be able to tell which goes with the early A.T.&S.F. lettering. (I> > model 1937.) Thanks for the info. I almost forgot what I first wante to write about. There are 3 small U shaped

I'm with Bruce. I have a complete selection (which is much more extensive than any of these other lines suggested) of all the sizes. Everything from .008" to .052". It works just fine, no

Thanks Tony, That is what I was thinking of, the removal of the tax advantage. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY