And Tony replied: I agree! The PRR was fairly fastidious about paint color consistency, as were most roads. Those cars were all painted with regulation FCC, and all looked pretty much the same

Ed Mines writes: "Exactly right Bill and John LaRue also identified him off line. Ameling requisitioned about a dozen steam era stock car negatives from me. My recollection is that one of the L&N

Coal Cars book.... it doesn't give a number range for the 38000 series Wabash cars and they went into the 3XXXXX series by adding 300000 to the Wabash numbers. accounts for the 359 cars. I know that

This sounds like Howard Ameling. He is retired and living in Florida. I will see if I can find his address. I know he has given his negative collection to the NKP Society Archive housed at Cleveland

Steve Lucas wrote: Steve, I don't think your conclusion is logical. Nothing I can see in the image contradicts the idea that every car was ORIGINALLY painted the identical color, but at different

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: But, but, Schuyler, all those modelers whose layouts are covered in cars with "brand new" paint can't be wrong, can they? <g> Tony Thompson Editor,

Malcolm Laughlin wrote: Probably still is. <g> Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510)

Discussions about BEDT, unless referring to frt cars there, is out of scope and, therefore, the thread is terminated. Mike Brock STMFC Owner

Further to your point, Steve, layouts which have all the cars painted the "right color" are basically not credible, and lack of weathering, even for "new this year" cars isn't realistic. A few years

Good point, Dennis. The BEDT was an exception to many rules, including some work rules. Even though it moved railcars, BEDT was not a formal railroad but a terminal. It got away with running steam

The Chrysler Building at 42nd Street is on Lexington Ave., the street that the camera is looking straight down. The Empire State Building at 34th St. is on 5th Ave to the west, visible near the

This is NOT to get a colour discussion going. But have a look at this photo. http://www.shorpy.com/node/2799?size=_original Every car in this photo (from a Kodachrome slide, and Kodachrome

Paint them with (I believe) Model master metalic paints. The kind you buff to make shinning. They make several kinds of metals and they work great. Clark Propst

Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal

Malcolm Laughlin wrote: <snip> This evening I realized that it is a photo of a model cleverly superimposed on a real background photo. If you study maps of the area, you will see that the round

List, In addition to Mike's posting as to the location of the shot in the transparency, I can add some further information as regard to the tank engine in the photo also. The engine is Brooklyn

That's interesting. Did they just part the car behind the gas station and run a line from it to the pumps? No need to have tanks in the ground. Dave Demeny

<schuyler.larrabee@...> wrote: <http://www.first-out.com/ebay/0726035.jpg> the NP. One (or a few) of them Maybe the LSBC stole them? Or was that only after the time frame of this group? Time

As is easily determined, because the diagonal creases go the wrong way. Many of the responses to the question about the origin of this refrigerator car have been not merely speculative but

Forwarding a useful note from the erielack list. Click the first link, then click the top thumbnail on that page. SGL