I supplied the gondola artwork to Greg Komar (as well as that for some other M&StL cars). The artwork was taken directly from the General American stencil diagram for the M&StL's 30001 series

Richard, If I am not mistaken the bolster and supports were visible on?top of the deck as well, making the decking itself "fit" around the exposed members, correct? Whereas the 50-ton car has the

Thanks Alan. I hope lots of scrap too -- mostly brass & stainless steel. The material I like best for this sort of use is phosphor bronze. If you've seen any of the Railyard kits then you've seen the

Bob, All three, the C&O/N&W/VGN, had rotary dumpers at Tidewater. It "appears" that the N&W/VGN had heavier tracks sooner than the C&O did and we don't know about the conditions of their branchline

Tim suggested: Such a material is already available. I use brass strip material from Russ Simpson for making the special steps and for making lateral walk supports on resin kits rather than mess with

This seems to be one of the last of that batch of non-"signature" cars that Richard did articles on, that had not been done. Of course, I just finished my resin version recently...well, it WAS

Eldon, I recall Chromate, a yellow powder that got everywhere, being delivered to the Diamond-Alkali plant in Painesville, Ohio in gons. Came into Fairport Harbor from ? and the docks were

Tim, here in the UK we have a number of suppliers of thin metal strip (brass, steel, nickel silver, phosphor bronze) in various thicknesses and widths for modelling - what sort of sizes are you

On Oct 14, 2008, at 7:48 AM, John Hile wrote: As does Sunshine Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/index.pl/bruce_f._smith2 "Some days you are the bug, some days

Ed I have a shot of B&O 9273, a 70 ton car w/ 14 stake pockets. The class appears to be P-32. One more thing, since the draft gear face is cast into the end sill, IRC will have the choice to make it

Denny and all; Faced with a large number of projects for which I had few answers, I have been staring at in-service photos for months now trying to get up the courage to finish some of these

Owners include AT&SF/B&O/CNJ/DT&I/ERIE/IHB/NH/NYC/PM/WABASH. And maybe GTW (not sure) I found a terrific scan online of a CNJ flat loaded w/ autoframes. My concern is -- will the car have sufficient

ProtoWest has a resin kit for this car and some prototype info and photos on their web site... http://www.protowestmodels.com/ProtoWest_HO_Kits.htm John Hile Blacksburg, VA

The Santa Fe number is 91500 which is listed in the live list as an FT-V with 200 built by PSCM in 1944 and it appears all cars had bulkheads added in 1955, for pulpwood service. So even though the

Walter M. Clark wrote Many of Al's kits use similar methods using flat brass 'wire'. Personally I'd like to see someone do an etched sheet of strip brass in several scale widths, each piece 3-4"

Some New Haven 17300-series 70-ton flats (along with welded side 17200-series cars) were converted to TOFC service in the late '30's. These cars lasted in this role until ca. 1953 when replaced with

I've submitted some photos for Moderator review to the Archer Decals Photo folder on STMFC. I recently completed a project of New Haven 33000-33499 Post War AAR 40' 10'IH Steel Box Cars. To do this

I sent Edward a photo off list of a M&StL USRA Gon. They were painted black. Greg Komar offers a dry transfer for an M&StL GS gon that might be usable. HO-230; 30001-30499 GS white black

Andy: Thanks for this suggestion. I'll have to weigh whether to go to this trouble with the P2K doors, or whether to try a scratch build with styrene. Archer rivets now make door projects like this a