Is the first car in the fourth team track one of the roof-bunker reefers? Had a bunker the length of the car under the roof; this is supposition from the extra hatches and the low door. Dennis

Richard, If he does the P&F decal set I'll take enough to do at least six and probably more. L. Keyser will want some too. Don Lodge The Fourth Street Lines

Hi Bll: I was pandering to the larger U.S.-based audience. Oh yes, I can spell Bill correctly but . . . <g>. -- Stafford Swain 26 Kenneth Street Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 0K8 (204)

Hi: I'll second that experience on CN LINES and our CN Lines SIG book and product selling efforts. However, I wanted to point out that the only person at any risk (or even having to think much about

True but a lot of Canadian-origin products in our tiny industry have a U.S. price which INCLUDES the higher price of international shipping. So, if you send them the Canadian price in Canadian

One technique that seems to work fairly well is to make a frt train longer than the scenes it will roll through. Thus, if the scene will hold an engine and 20 cars, a 30 car train works pretty well

Dave, I'm not quite sure of the street location where I saw the car (and don't have a map handy), but I can give you the general area. There is/was an SP yard just east of and parallel to the #17

Thanks Garth. All I need to hear. The Standards Brand plant is at 98th Ave at San Leandro street -- the end of the long Kohler siding jointly served by the SP and WP. Perhaps that car you saw was

Interesting. I'm asking as last night I was looking at a Sanborn map and there was a Standard Brands facility shown (Oakland CA) that I know is standing today -- it makes Yeast. An interesting

Tom and Dave, I spotted a wooden vinegar tank on the SP at Oakland, California, around 1975. No picture, sorry. I was zooming by on the #17 freeway. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Tom Gloger

Reinhart Vinegar in Stayner, Ontario was still shipping vinegar in a wooden car in the early 1970s. The CNR guys called their car the "vinegar jug". Cheers, Ian ------- Ian Wilson Canadian

Stafford Swain wrote: Over several years of taking thousands of personal checks (cheques) from American and Canadian customers, we have NEVER had one bounce. Al Westerfield once attested the same

--- Dave Nelson <muskoka@...> wrote: Data point: ca. 1940, Gregory-Robinson-Speas in Rogers, Arkansas shipped 3,000,000 gallons annually in wooden tank cars to the South and Southwest. ca.

OK, the March Wish List for decals provide to be a less than rousing success. This one may prove more interesting to you. I have a new Wish List for April that is for detail parts. The link is

Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: Yes, well, chalk it up to graphic dyslexia. That can be looked into, but does not answer my question about whether handfuls of sets could be

ljack70117@... wrote: Sorry for misinterpreting what you said. While this type of assembly makes sense for model construction, I've never evaluated whether the assembly has low enough

Jeff Aley - GCD PE <jaley@...> wrote: I'm not going to take that "other scale" bait, but I would like to point out that many fans of the Rutland RR agree that part of its appeal is

The April Shot of the Month is up (link below). Can anyone help to identify the refrigerator car pictured in the bottom right hand corner of the photo (behind the Wabash single sheathed auto car).

Safford, I always thought that the correct spelling was "cheque" up your way! Bill Daniels Tucson, AZ Stafford Swain <sswain@...> wrote:

Hi: Allen Ferguson of Black Cat and I are good pals and live within about a mile of each other so please indulge me a moment to comment on this topic. In Canada we have always had very large,