"&@#* in an elevator" Gatwood asked: Every Pennsy freight had an NP boxcar! Just ask Mike B. So there's one car. And Tony T will tell you that you need some PFE reefers. Stock up. Then Richard H

barges can sit on the bottom at low tide, i guess.

Could someone suggest examples of the ICC 105A300W type of tanks, built around 1944-1946? Polymer Corp., Ltd had several of these with PCLX reporting marks, seemingly first listed in the 1/1946 ORER.

Perhaps try asking on the CDN-frt-cars-n-ops Yahoogroup, or one of the CN groups? I'd guess that coal going to the Eastern Townships in Quebec and to southern Ontario would have come from Nova

Scalecoat II boxcar red seems to be a pretty good match for the NKP freightr car color of the era.  Mont Switzer

Hi Tim, I would agree that Most coal from Cape Breton must have moved by water, even if only around the Gaspe Peninsula and up the St. Lawrence River. But what about coal from Springhill??? With

A major problem to consider is how we go about reducing actual time to scale.There are too many factors to consider as we try to shrink time and function into an acceptable compromise or just play

Schuyler Another detail: On the UTLX tank car, the AB valve is directly above the air reservoir, and most of the valve shows above the level of the walkway. It is located just ahead of the A-end

Schuyler UTLX owned some of these, e.g. UTLX 39150. I think all of the others are foobies. The UTLX tank car had an extra pair of raised weld seams on either side of the dome, they almost look like

None. Zero, zilch, nada. However, the UTLX cars are close and can be made accurate with some minor re-detailing. None of the other P/L schemes were applied to AC&F welded 10K gal. tank cars, or

http://www.ircmodelersclub.com/images/flyer221w.jpg SGL La vita e breve, mangiate prima il dolce! E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.1.441) Database version:

Jim it sounds like the layout owner is not using the CC/WB system as it was intended. Most owners using a CC/WB system have a car card for each car on the layout. And there is a waybill for each CC.

"Maybe an OP would be 'less fun' if you ran it too much like a real RR." --Jim Betz I think that's the kernel of why model operations tend to be a bit frenetic. SGL E-mail message checked by

Be careful with these cars "late in life" since starting in 1959 the NKP used these cars as the donors for TOFC Flats. I haven't had to paint one so I can't help with color. If you are modeling post

Bob Methods like that work ok on private layouts where one person usually has strict control over the layout and its operations. All car card methods tend to fall apart on large club layouts if the

I operated on a layout once where each waybill was numbered hold for one, two or three days for unloading. When the car reached its destination, the industry had card boxes labelled one, two or three

Darrall: Here's a colour shot, maybe late in life. http://railroad.union.rpi.edu/displayimage.php?i=21254 Stephan Parachuk Toronto

Rich Yes there is: southern_railway@...? Mike Wilson Terre Haute, IN ?

I have a photo of one taken in October, 1956 and will send you a scan off-list. At that time the ends (and presumably the roof as well) were black. I'll let someone who models the NKP suggest a

Hi Gang, Is there a Southern Railroad yahoo group? Sincerely, Rich Yoder