I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that Ted Culotta did an early PS-1 in his essential freight cars series. RMC January 2008 pp 94-100. He started with an Intermountain PS-1. Larry

The 1/3/4 end is what is not prototypical for this car.? According to my contemporaneous notes and the recollection of others from the period when C&BT was researching these,? the prototype was a 4-4

Jim--That's it. Once again I am glad I am keeping all those back issues. Thanks! Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL

From the RPI site: Wabash car no. 8252 was shown in the January '90 RMJ / RMJ Vol. II in a Virl Davis undated photo. According to Richard Hendrickson, the 8000-8299 series was built in 1950. The

Chet--Thanks much. Is there an online or magazine published photo of a Wabash 8000 -8299? Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL

Chet and Steve, I built one of the Wabash cars, but used the sides from a McKeen car (now Accurail) to get the 12' doors. With ends from Branchline and a roof from my parts box (probably Red

The Wabash did have 300 cars in the 8000 - 8299 series that had the ends and roof that you mention. They had a straight side sill between the bolsters. The door opening was about an inch less

Ed, Greg--Thanks for jumping in. I knew the MP cars had 15 foot doors. That was one thing I thought I might upgrade on the model's 14 ft doors if everything else was ok, which it isn't. The model

Steve, MoPac's 40' all-steel auto cars also had a 15' door opening, whereas the model has a 14' doorway. I'm pretty sure the model you have was one of C&BT's "mix and match" concoctions that never

I have a C&BT 40 foot double door boxcar with 1/3/4 Improved Dreadnaught ends for which I would like to find a prototype. The model has fishbelly sidesills and staggered doors. I have had the car in

Steve Hoxie writes: ends for which I would like to find a prototype. The model has fishbelly sidesills and staggered doors. I have had the car in service for a while and need to upgrade it. It

Larry Kline wrote: The caption on the web site states that number 1310 was the only car in the series painted with black ends. "P&WV 1310 PS1 delivered new 11/48. Red car black ends, white

There are a number of P&WV boxcar photos on the HiLine web site. The link is: http://www.thepwvhiline.com/PWVACFBoxCars/index.html There is a color photo showing ACF built postwar AAR boxcar 1236

Removing the extra "bowtie" off the end panels isn't that difficult. We've had to do so constructing variations of C&NW riveted side PS-1s. Jerry Glow

I have several photos of AOX cars from the 1940s and '50s with either "ASSOCIATED" or (later) "TIDEWATER" directly above the reporting marks and numbers and no emblems. However, I also have two

I have a scan of TWOX 979, a radial course single dome tank car with a large white Flying A emblem (with thin black lines to mark the feather edges). There is no date on the scan (it's from Ebay) but

I found this web page with both builder and in-service photos. Photo two is a nice view of the early PS-1 end. http://www.thepwvhiline.com/HistoricEraImagesJan2006Pa/index.html Bob

Jim, Tim is correct that the P&WV PS-1 40-foot boxcar was indeed the earlier variation of the car. I did an article (Mont Switzer inspired "save-paint")?of the car for MM using the Con Cor car

Lars Svanevik wrote: Yes, it was one of several Microscale sets intended for gas station modeling. It's discontinued in any case. I'd be interested to see copies of those photos. In

So? We want to do better. Tim, The Accumate box does more than just hold the coupler to the car, it also has to hold the parts in line. In our initial destructive testing of the full size Accumate,