I think, in their original announcement, made back in Oct., they stated that a plate ended car was indeed coming along. I have ordered some of them from my local pusher. I think it was one CRR car

Rick, the Santa Fe's cross hoppers were used mostly in coal service, and therefore seldom appeared on the Coast Lines. The exception was that some Ga-60 and Ga-62 class War Emergency composite

Group, One other comment on the forthcoming Atlas cars... When I was at the W. Springfield, MA show at the end of January, I asked one of the Atlas reps whether there would be more versions of these

Phil Marcus wrote: I was hoping someone else would be able to step in with a definitive history, but lacking that here's what I've been able to deduce: This car was part of the original Western

Hi guys, I'm trying to determine if any of the two bay or three bay open top hoppers were used by the Santa Fe in the early 50's to transport aggregate or ballast on the Valley division. I know there

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:09:57 -0000, rwitt_2000 wrote Bob, starting to get to the end of our era but I have a question. Do you know if later in life the B&O cars were still in revenue service at those

Richard Hendrickson wrote: > <snip> the 1920s through the >1950s, especially the Pennsy and B&O cars because there were so many of them. > The B&O cars should have been a common sight in interchange

PTJ ran some 1969 (?) photos many years ago that showed a passenger train on the PC at Kokomo, IN setting off an REA express reefer. The car was on the tail end of the train, and the crew shoved it

Ben Hom wrote: He's not kidding - BAR 65000-65449, built in 1938 by Magor with 4/5 W- section corner post ends. See the 1940 CBC for photo. =========================== Two years ago, I spotted

specifies not You're right. I never considered the production model might be better than the one shown on the internet. If it turns out that it is than even I will buy a couple at $30 each. Sometimes

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:08:14 -0000, ed_mines wrote Ed, as has been pointed out, the picture is a pre production mock up. They very well could have taken Solidworks models and made a rapid prototype

I think you're missing the fact that the caption on the photo specifies "Pre-Production Mockup," meaning that the final product will likely not look exactly like this. I've seen such mockups from

Oh!! Thanks for the heads-up, Denis! Frank Valoczy Vancouver, BC ----- http://hydrorail.hostwq.net/index.html - Rails along the Fraser http://hydrorail.rrpicturearchives.net/ - Rail Photos

construction and only offered RTR. That could have given several different roofs....< As the car is offered with two different roofs I doubt they made two molds but they could have made two

Ed While the suggest retail price is going to be around 30 or so bucks they should be able to be had for less than that at some dealers. Shopping may be required. No, this is not going to be a

--- In STMFC@..., "benjaminfrank_hom" <b.hom@...> asked: What's your point? The car could have been something more useful to us. Looking at the picture of the CCR car on the Atlas web

Bob, Thanks, we do happen to have this photo and the end shot of car #3600. It happens to be one of the few "builders" photos we have of the 8 foot door 50 foot PS-1s. Thanks for the herald

Charlie, See message 63998. Beware of the link wrap, but the image is still on site at that address. Steve M Stull Winslow 7076 --- Charlie Vlk <cvlk@...> wrote:

No western RRs owned them, not even second hand. Almost all (the CGW cars being a notable exception) were built for "steel belt" eastern RRs at a time when railroads in the west favored composite