Bill, Intermountain offers the ends from their PFE R40-23 in packages of four sets. regards, Andy Miller

at Jon, he looked at me and with my wife, we headed for the door where I saw Richard and Tony vanish.< I recall, grin! Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr

Details West? I think they used to make two styles of 4/4 replacement ends for the Athearn R-40-23 reefer that might be about that height... However I can't find them listed on Walthers anymore. I

The penalties are extreme: One beer for each infraction. Repeat violators are set to hard labor, sanding up a set of Sunshine floors and sides to equal length. Tim O'Connor

Details West no longer shows them on their catalog page for freight car parts, but they used to sell two versions of the early Dreadnaught ends, meant to be replacement parts for the Athearn Reefer.

Bill, it sounds like the most obvious source for 4/4 square-cornered Dreadnaught ends of that height might be a resin model of an ARA 1932 standard steel box car. Both Sunshine and Funaro &

Frederick Freitas says: "Stop giving Mike & Jeff new ideas for Coco meet! Be careful of what you wish for, it may come to pass." What do you mean...it MAY come to pass? Tony Thompson

There was essentially no "grain rush" as we know it today, in the 30's. Farmers fed their livestock the grain, ie corn and oats, they raised. It was only after WWII and the need to feed the world,

Has Kadee done the cars in the pre speed lettering Reading lettering yet? They did the speed lettering scheme but I have not seen the earlier version. The earlier lettering was shown in the RPC

On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Bill Welch wrote: <SNIP> > So okay they are only doing one basic car body, especially as related > to the bottom of the side of the car. But they have failed to do

Fred Freitas wrote: RIchard went as far as having fake police badges made, saying "Prototype Police," and with the slogan "To Serve and Correct." He made a great sight in his mirror aviator

Tim,           Stop giving Mike & Jeff new ideas for Coco meet!  Be careful of what you wish for, it may come to pass.  How much are non-proto citations anyway ????   Fred Freitas

Al,         It seems we are all a bit wider after sitting for so long building resin kits. Tony, we may need to order XL=XXL=XXXL for the next printing. Hint, hint!   Fred Freitas

My layout will be open for the going home tours of the NMRA, MER Convention in Hagerstown, MD on Sunday, October 18, 2009 from 1-5 pm.  The layout features N&W's Shenandoah Valley Line between Front

That's correct. Yes. The Santa Fe experimented extensively with various types of patented journal lubricators in the late 1950s. Richard Hendrickson

Hello Group, I am at the beginning of an effort to scratch build at least six MKT 47001-47500 series stock cars. I am in need of a source for 4/4 Dreadnaught ends for these cars that have an inside

Does anyone have contact information for Ken Harstine, proprietor of the web site www.boxcars.us ? On or off-list reply is fine. He's got a boxcar image posted at his web site that I'd like to make a

WC and WI are West Wichita and Winslow as your friend thought. There were many types of replacements for "cotton waste" -- some are listed in the CBC's but I can't find any reference to Miller or

I replaced the brass trucks on my W&R NP single sheathed box car with Tahoe trucks -- a HUGE improvement in rolling performance! Tim O'Connor P.S. You get flyers from W&R? How do you get on the

Does anyone know the answer to the following question? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA =================== A friend found SFRD 14970, an Rr-34, on the ground in western New Mexico recently with the lettering