Scratchbuilding the various extruded ends is, relatively speaking, not a difficult thing (unless it's a Deco or certain NSC ends, maybe). But, when it comes to ends with inverted ribs, I'm at a loss

Bob, it's an SP BE-50-24, basically the same as the Overnight box cars except that it was equipped for passenger service. Originally SP 5700-5749 built in 1946 by Mt Vernon. Sunshine produced a model

Thank you, Al. In looking through this I notice that the railway called a given car one thing (by 'AAR code'), where sometimes the ORER differs in what it calls it. As I understand it, the railways

The image link below to the Southern Pacific box car (SP 133000, an XM car) shows this car appears to have high speed trucks. http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=26217 Anyone know

I have completed building four of the above series cars from the Northern Specific kit, except that I have not added trucks or brake wheels. Could someone advise as to the prototype truck and

It would seem more likely an Interstate car in New Jersey. The Interstate complained of the B&O not promptly returning their (Interstate)hoppers. Just guessing that the Interstate cars came up the

Bud, I modeled one of those cars in HO scale years ago, and I used the RB trucks with extended sideframes but converted them to plain bearing trucks by replacing the RB journals with plain bearing

PFE sold 75 reefers to BAR in 1964. Michael George Hollwedel <proto.nscale@...> wrote: I see the message that it was post 1960. Fogs things up a bit for me! (1953) Anthony

Keith emailed back that he has almost all of the equipment to do brass casting - the operative word being "almost". He suggested the following in the meantime. Precision Scale Company? Talk to Mark

Hi once again, A friend mentioned wanting a few B&LE offset triple hoppers, the proper class for which I don't know but I do know that in S scale the Am Flyer plastic car was a reasonable

Posted by: "Allen Rueter" The Wabash between Detroit and Buffalo, and CASO come to mind =========== Yes for Wabash, but likely not for CASO. A car via CASO would be routed NYC, and you could

I see the message that it was post 1960. Fogs things up a bit for me! (1953) Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote: George Hollwedel wrote: I don't think so, George. PFE and BAR

gglennlou@... writes: What about the NH cars assigned to State of Maine Service? Were there any such cars prior to the red, white and blue cars? Rich

High on my "wish list" of accurate ROSTERS is an accounting of all of the BAR ice reefers -- new and second hand. There is conflicting data from different published sources so I'd love to have an

According to "Northern New England Color Guide," some second-hand PFE cars went to BAR in the mid-60s (beyond the era of this list.) Pages 19-20... some R-40-10, some R-40-14 apparently. Scott

Rob, Make note of the following: "WHAT KIND OF PLASTICS CAN BE USED? Low- or medium-impact styrene, Delrin or its competitor, Celcon. Evergreen styrene is very much usable. WHAT KIND OF PLASTICS

George Hollwedel wrote: I don't think so, George. PFE and BAR cooperated on sharing cars for their respective harvest rushes, but I'm not aware of any sales to them by PFE. Tony Thompson

I model the SP in N and have PFE R-40-10. My understanding is BAR bought reefers from PFE in the mid to late 1950's. I think 1952 might be too early. George joel norman

Here's a link to a website I bookmarked a while back: http://home.onemain.com/~thebackshop/plastics.htm Good review on making brass parts from plastic originals. Tom Madden