SP "Daylight Orange" is the same color as the PFE Standard Refriferator Orange, Color #8. Match your favorite brand to the color panel in Thompson'e PFE book, p. 419. Rob Simpson so I can properly

Gentlemen, While we're on the subject, can anyone suggest a good paint match so I can properly finish the PFE wood reefer I have on the workbench? Thank you, John John Golden Bloomington,

Without seeing the photo I'd assume that too. The yellow area aound the reporting marks on the 2 very dirty reefers is rectangular with clean cut edges. I doubt it would look that way if someone

Jim,   Al Westerfield has a SU boxcar for the A&D kit # 4151.  Decals can be ordered separately.   Regards,   Mike Aufderheide

I have available two Dennis Storzek HO resin kits. #1916-5B Nickle Plate Road Boxcar (double sheathed, steel door) 11000- 11299 series #1917-2 Canadian National S.S. Boxcar (wood roof) $40 each,

be spaced on a fifty foot car of this type? I have the SF Rolling stock vol. 3 but the closest reference is of an Fe-5, a forty foot car, on page 51. Joe, Auto rack equipped cars

Tim, As I understand the rules, the BRC would only pay per diem for the number of days in excess of the average number it took them to handle cars. When the average method was used, there was a

Hi Folks Here are the DS/SS/Steel splits for Illinois Central box and auto cars, 1938 to

Is anyone aware of a source for HO scale decals for Atlantic & Danville boxcars? I'd like to model one of the boxcars it acquired in the 1950s from the New York Central, using the Sunshine Kit 64.1.

Tim, Boy, I was having trouble yesterday afternoon! Those figures are national averages for 1941...not NYO&W figures. John Hile

Jim, I found my set of O scale A&D decals. They are # 134-11 from Walthers. So I reckon, lots of luck. Chuck Hladik Rutland Railroad Virginia Division NMRA L5756 **************It's only

Jim, I have a set of O scale decals for the A&D that James King gave me so that the NMRA MER might produce a "Regional" car for sale. This hasn't happened. I'll try to get up with James soon

Who was feeding NYO&W from the west at Scranton? Lackawanna? Lehigh Valley, via Austin Junction at the end of the Capouse Branch. The run was then from Scranton to Maybrook, with traffic thence

Fellow Listers,                      While starting work on the underframes of my three Sunshine ATSF Fe class "Whale Belly" rebuilds, the instructions make no mention of chain

To all - The November issue (yes, I know it's August) of Analog Science Fiction/Fact has a great article on rapid prototyping, its origins, current state and possible futures. It describes a kit

John I believe the average "dwell time" for freight cars on the BRC in the 1950's was over 24 hours. So does this mean they would owe one day of per diem for each car, because that was their

Who was feeding NYO&W from the west at Scranton? Lackawanna?

John, thanks for posting that. I think by the mid-50's labor costs had escalated substantially in spite of dieselization, so the "net income" disappeared. I'm surprised really to see NYO&W had almost

--- In STMFC@..., "gary laakso" <vasa0vasa@...> wrote: "The 1927 Great Northern car diagrams show the 8000-8499 series as double sheathed with 8 trussrods; built by H&B; with

Actually, as a Terminal Switching Road and/or Intermediate Switching Road, performing those services for fixed fees, and not receiving part of the freight rate, the Belt Railway of Chicago would have