Bill, I was at a guy's house last night who showed me three of our RTR cars he had lined up on his kitchen counter. They look very nice. Clark Propst

All, Most of the CB&Q's bulkhead flat conversions were done to supply a U.S. Gypsum plant at Sperry IA on the branch to Mediapolis IA. This was last line on CB&Q where 4-4-2's were regularly

available From usinspect.com "Gypsum or rock lath is a pre-manufactured plaster board, generally 16 inches by 48 inches in size, and 3/8 inch thick. Rock lath became popular in the 1930s as a less

It's called Rock Lathe. It was the alternative to wood lathe which did not meet fire code regulations when building codes were introduced in the late forties. This stuff and method of plastering is

I own a house near Akron, Ohio, and the interior was finished in exactly the same way as Tim descibes below. The house was built in 1943. Bob Weston

Tim O'Connor writes: "Maybe they chose to cater to (gasp!) the post-transition era?? After all many modelers like those 1960's cars (incredible as it may seem!)" Well, I suppose it might be

Tony, Take another look, the A end is sheathed like the sides. There is a 5'-6 1/2" belt rail starting 2'-1" the floor on the sides.This belt rail extends up a little farther on the A end due to the

I can say that it was available in at least some form in the 50's. The dump...err house (which dates to the early 50's not far from the O&W Kingston branch - gotta get that STMFC connection

wrote: Thank you again. I should have written beige and not tan. The reference is from a 1991 article in RMC that I must have but have not yet found the right box. I'm finding the RPI site to be

My 10/58 ORER shows two groups of 65'6" mill gons with numbers in the 95000-95199 series and odd numbers in the 132001-132099 series. The 132000 series cars were built by Pressed Steel in 1949 and

After all this prototype information, you may want to build a flatcar loaded with Sheetrock. Sunshine offers ATSF Ft L & N bulkhead flatcars and wallboard loads for them. There is a review of them

Hard to say in the absence of photos from the era you model. However, later photos of the cars all show them to be mineral red. And the RPI site, though sometimes useful, is far from being a

Branchline is showing a set of four Santa Fe BX69 boxcars. These are 50', riveted, single 8' door cars. The catalog number is 10014. The photo on the web is of a El Capitan car, but no mention is

A search on Wikipedia revealed sheetrock from Plaster City,CA in 1916. Got popular around 1952 with building in the suburbs. From the postings this seems to be the period some railroads began

Having been at Rome's house last night, I can vouch for his vintage sheet rock. My own house, built in 1877, was partially remodeled circa 1926-29 and in those areas the sheet rock has paper labels

wrote: Thanks for the reply. This information at least allows plausibility to simply replacing the brakes and data, at least until such time as pictures surface. For my purposes that's good enough.

I DID say that if it was out of era, that was all I needed to know. <grin> Dave Smith -- David L. Smith Allentown, PA dlsio4@...

Might these be just a TAD out of era for this list, Tim? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

It is certainly odd looking. It was evidently a B-L-H idea; I showed the demonstrator car in my volume on SP gondolas. The cars SP bought differ only slightly from the demo. I think part of the

Tim O'Connor wrote: Yes, I think you should, and yes. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510)