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

I have a few Intermountain AC&F 1958 cu ft assembled covered hoppers available for purchase. SHPX 25577 gray NEW 3-48, (one) UP 92064 Mineral red NEW 11-40 (one) UP 92099 same

would ask what era would these cars be correct for in cement service? I am modeling in October 68 and my railroad is an eastern Pennsylvania coal hauler. October 1968 From the information I have

The operative words here are "crushed slate loading". By 1955 the D&H had a reasonably sizeable fleet of ACF 70 ton and other covered hoppers. Thus the converted USRA single sheathed box cars may no

In the RPI site, all the D&H SS boxcars listed, including the ones converted to covered hoppers, were built in the early 30's. Series 17001-17500 had 427 cars in it in my 1955 ORER. The RPI site

I have had my eye on these kits but haven't purchased any yet. I would ask what era would these cars be correct for in cement service? I am modeling in October 68 and my railroad is an eastern

Gene: Thinfilm Decals (PO Box 70323 Pasadena, CA 91117-7323) is still in production and a regular advertiser in the Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette magazine. Run by Fred and Judy Hill of the

Gene... I believe that ThinFilm decals are now produced by San Juan Decals (http://www.sanjuancarco.com/sanjuandecals/pricelist.html) Jack Burgess www.yosemitevalleyrr.com

I spent the last two evenings inventorying my decal/dry transfer stash. I was about to place an order with Champ when it slowly began to dawn on me that I might already have the decals I intended to