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Re: Well Packed Lump Coal

Fred, I've got to admit, it looked awfully pretty to be a regular load, that, or they had one seriously complex loading facility :) Steve --- Frederick Freitas <prrinvt@...>

By Steve Stull · #63866 ·

Re: Wartime tank car

This is one of the US built, European theater, single compartment tank cars with 2 domes that we have discussed here in the past. There is no evidence of these being used in the US, although they

By Bruce Smith · #63865 ·

Wartime tank car

This is from a current Ebay auction -- I thought it might be of some interest here... http://mysite.verizon.net/~jftavares1/2007-04%20(Apr)/train166.jpg Tim O'

By Tim O'Connor · #63864 ·

Re: VGN H21's

Tim O'Connor asked: "Atlas has an H21?" Yes, Atlas released an O scale Class H21A in conjunction with Middle Division last year: http://www.middledivision.com/D_O_MODELS_H21A_INDEX_01.HTM Ben Hom

By benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> · #63863 ·

Re: Stockcar book

Ed Mines wrote: "The book is a little pricy for a soft cover book, particluarly one containing a lot of material published previously. May be it's a good way to pay back the subscriptions of former

By benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> · #63861 ·

Re: Stockcar book

--- In STMFC@..., Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote: If this publication follows previous Hundman "collection" books, it will reproduce the magazine articles exactly (errors and all,

By ed_mines · #63860 ·

Re: VGN H21's

Atlas has an H21? I can easily point to many bogus combinations of paint scheme <--> model from Atlas. Or maybe that's the semantic ploy, that the "scheme" is authentic even if the combination of

By Tim O'Connor · #63862 ·

Re: Stockcar book

If this publication follows previous Hundman "collection" books, it will reproduce the magazine articles exactly (errors and all, even if errors were acknowledged in the "Letters" column after

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #63859 ·

VGN H21's

I can't say it's definitive (we all know that manufacturers, by and large, have to amortize their development and production costs), but Atlas has been offering a VGN lettering scheme for the joint

By Justin Kahn · #63858 ·

HO Scale P&WV, Montour, and Union Decals

Jack Consoli will be doing another run of his HO scale custom freight car decals for Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Montour, and Union Railroad. See the PDF file titled "Pittsburgh - Mon Valley

By benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> · #63857 ·

New file uploaded to STMFC

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /Pittsburgh - Mon Valley Decals (Jack Consoli).pdf

By STMFC@... · #63856 ·

New file uploaded to STMFC

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By STMFC@... · #63855 ·

Re: Well Packed Lump Coal

Photo 003499 on the same site shows C&O 56516 again plus two other cars, staged at the Price Hill Colliery loader, seemingly to showcase the product line: "Lump", "Egg", and "Stove" coal. Richard

By Richard Brennan <brennan8@...> · #63854 ·

Re: Well Packed Lump Coal

Steve, Most deffinitely a photo op for the RR. That may be the only neat as a pin photo of a hopper ever produced. Fred Freitas Steve <winslow7076@...> wrote:

By Frederick Freitas <prrinvt@...> · #63853 ·

Re: New book: Stock Cars

--- In STMFC@..., "Steve Sandifer" <steve.sandifer@...> wrote: I just stumbled across and purchased a new book by Robert Hundman, Stock Car Cyclopedia Vol. 1. Can anyone tell how much of

By ed_mines · #63851 ·

Re: Stockcar book

On the Hundman Publishing site at left is a contents bar. Click on Contact. Has all sorts of contact info. Here is a link http://www.hundman.com/html/contact.html Hope it helps Robert Federle ----

By rfederle@... · #63852 ·

Re: Request for info/Virginian hoppers

<snip> Frank, Ben, The only reference I have seen is contained in the VGN's 1944 Annual Report: "To take care of immediate needs, 1,000 coal cars were rented from the Pennsylvania Railroad during

By vgnry <vgnry212@...> · #63850 ·

Well Packed Lump Coal

Group; Found this picture at the West Virginia Historical Photographs Collection. A C&O twin hopper loaded with lump coal, laid in so cleanly it almost looks like paving stones. Is this typical

By Steve Stull · #63849 ·

Stockcar book

Can anybody provide me with a telephone number or e-mail address for Hundman publishing. Their WEB SITe has neither. Thanks Bill Williams

By bill_d_goat · #63848 ·

Re: Request for info/Virginian hoppers

Frank Bongiovanni wrote: "It's an open question as to whether or not [any leased PRR Class H21A hoppers] were ever lettered for Virginian. Yes, Bowser did them, but there's also been information that

By benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> · #63847 ·

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