The WI&M rostered 5 boxcars in 1953 and other dates as well. Before I purchase Thomas Burg's White Pine Route, can anyone tell me if there are photos of the boxcars in this book? If not can

I'm modeling a (mythical but plausible) NG line circa 1940. Would the couplers have been identical to standard gauge ones? TIA Norm

Kurt, The 19000-19999 series cars were built late 1952 to early 1953. I-GN was assigned 19000-19499 and StLB&M got 19500-19999. All cars were built by MP at their DeSoto, Mo. shops. The cars had

I know Sunshine made a mini-kit that served as a door prize at Naperville a few years ago. If I recall, it was for a IGN 10-6 car, and included the parts needed to modify an InterMountain 10-6

I¹ve posted your question to the MoPac group. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni From: Kurt Laughlin <fleeta@...> Reply-To: <STMFC@...> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:45:42 -0400 To:

Hi: I have been looking for a HO model to represent the MP 40 ft, 10-6 IH, 3898 cu ft, 6 ft door boxcars; preferably the 19000 - 19999 series, but others may be identical. I see Branchline has an

As some of you who attended the last Naperville RPM show know, weathering was a hot topic. It seems that a few of us who gave up the fine arts to chase trains and build freight cars have gone back to

here except that diagonal panels run the other way.&#92; And the Pennsy is the unstandard railroad of the world. George Simmons Dry Prong, LA

Tim's right. You should be aware that there are two varieties of color pencils. Prismacolor pencils are the Cadillac of pencils, IMHO, and work extremely well on moderately abrasive surfaces, like

by style (about prototype I've Jace, The change from 18" letters to 33" was authorized on April 5, 1955 for hopper cars and gons 52 foot and longer. Cars that received the new larger lettering were

Comparing views on the Elwood site with some excellent prints sent me by another list member, I had long noticed that the Wabash billboard-style roadname on hoppers and gondolas came in two sizes:

John, BRAVO! Looks great. Heading into our/TKM's 5th year (this August) I have to say that success is easy to duplicate if you have the spirit to attack it. Gordon, remind your folks that a

Barry Roth wrote: Glad you reminded us of this, Barry, as it may be helpful with many topics concerning Irv Athearn to imagine a parallel universe . . . and likely over in that universe, the

There is, of course, a Parallel Universe where everything is like here except that diagonal panels run the other way. Sometimes one of those will slip through a wormhole and ... voila! Barry

Tim O'Connor wrote: See, like I said, only one more thing to correct <g>. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

I also rebuilt the placards, extended the diags and posts, rebuilt the door track and corrected the door, carved off the grabs to replace with wire... The model has more problems than just the roof!

Tim O'Connor wrote: No need, Tim. Just replace the roof. I've done it and it's not hard. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Irregardless, it's a good looking job for the first edition. Keep up the good work gentlemen! Tim Barney (one of those TKM reading #^$##@^ pennsy guys)