Hello everyone, I'm gathering information on some Burlington boxcars, series CBQ 18400- 18699 (class XM-32c), for a possible future project, and I have a few questions about these cars. Could anyone

Thanks Tom, I couldn't manage Cocoa this year either - maybe next. In any event, those temperatures don't seem to hard to manage. But I take your point - I'll wait for the RMC article to be

Are these O-scale or H0? Al Kresse

Dave, Couldn't find it. Can you please give me  link? Regards, Arnold van Heyst Netherlands. http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyst/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Rob Kirkham asked: It was only warm - maybe 80 to 85 F. Ted's article is supposed to be in the February RMC which should be showing up any day. I didn't do Cocoa Beach this year so can't ask Ted if he

Tom, that's interesting as I have some of these cars to work on too. I wonder about what temperature your ultrasonic cleaner raises the temperature of the cleaning fluid to? I don't have one, but

Dave, A "few" UP box cars wouldn't be prototypical since UP had only one car of this type, number 182500, B-50-18, built 5-36. Builder's photos appear on pages 77-78 in Terry Metcalfe's book Union

Just received the Atlas e-mail update. The January 2009 announcements include 6 new paint schemes and 3 "body styles" to include Murphy, Viking, and "11 panel flat riveted roofs", each with different

In late October I posted this: To follow this up, Ted Culotta's next Essential Freight Cars article is supposed to cover upgrading this model. He's been offering the Trix/Marklin model through his

My recent announcement re: upcoming S scale resin kits (B&O M53 wagontop box and SAL B7 turtleback box) has now spread into HO, at least for the B&O car. I'm pleased to announce a collaboration

I have an old Varney tank car lettered GATX 648, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals. The car has a green body with white lettering. Accepting the era the model was made, likely the late 50s, a lot of

This is a question for those Heinz experts among us.? According to a?1951 AFE that year the Colorado & Southern installed a 260-foot spur in Windsor, Colorado to serve the H.J. Heinz Company.? My

That reminds me of a Lionel giraffe car! http://www.postwarlionel.com/cgi-bin/postwar?ITEM=3376 The MILW also had stock cars with roof hatches. You can see some in this

Thank You, a real nice find. Mark Morgan

Or at *http://tinyurl.com/859tgd *if you couldn't click the fragmented url Dave Smith -- David L. Smith Da Vinci Science Center Allentown, PA http://www.davinci-center.org Please consider the

How's about a stock car with roof hatches for loading coal? See pages 190 and 191

Ribside cars, who makes several Milwaukee box car kits, also sells decals. I bought a couple of sets at Naperville. These sets are specifically for the ribbed cars. If you can find CDS Dry Transfers,

Jon and friends, I bought one of the IM rib-sides, assembled and factory lettered. The model is entirely boxcar red, including the roof and metal running board. I looked at the several articles in my

I checked back and found a lot on this car but didn't come across any data on which decals to use. I guess one could order from Martin but are there any others I could use, say MicroScale? Jon

Bulk coal in box cars also happened in the mid-west.  At 2006 Naperville there was a  presentation by James Dick covered the shipment of coal from the lakehead(Duluth-Superior) to points in upper