As we speak, and like so many others on this list, I have been busy packing my Speedo, sun screen, shades, muscle shirts, and sandals, ready to hit the sun-dappled beach at Cocoa Beach tomorrow.

Thank you both for putting the arch bar truck info together. Gene Green

Rick - Yes, That's our kit 3651. - Al Westerfield

Hey everyone, Did any of the Santa Fe's Bx-3/6's get modernized with AB brake systems, and horizontal brake wheels, or did they remain as built . with vertical brake shafts? Thanks for any help. Rick

Yes, I plan to thoroughly overwhelm and bore people with information about the produce shipping containers, various methods of loading them into freight refrigerator cars, and the colourful labels

Bill, Hopefully, these various types of crates and their produce shipped in them will find their way into your box also?  I'm so ready to leave this "wonderful warm weather" up here in Michigan .

I believe a "reefer" is an insulated refrig'd box car? Al Kresse

In an update last night I learned that Martin's doctors have delayed the surgery originally scheduled for late December. No firm date has been set but presumably it will be within the next several

My friend is a CNW modeler convert from narrow gauge interests so to encourage him, I've done artwork for decals for CNW cars for the late steam/early diesel era (although many survived much later in

Ed and Group, Has anyone heard how Martin has fared since Ed's last report? Tom Olsen 7 Boundary Road, West Branch Newark, Delaware, 19711-7479 (302) 738-4292 tmolsen@... P.S. Sorry about the

In addition to working for DuPont in Clinton, Iowa, my father ran a one man insurance agency out of a desk in our dining room for Union Insurance Co. of Lincoln, Nebraska. Every summer for several

With the help of Bill Kelly, I've put together the following sequence of events regarding the prohibition of arch bar trucks in interchange. This information is assembled Rule 3, Section (t) of the

Although the caption characterizes these as barrels, they are really more like cylindrical crates with slates to promote contact with cool air. I have accumulated several resources related to various

Hi I am looking for information on CNW/CMO slogan boxcars. So far this is what I have found. April 1976 North Western Lines April 1981 North Western Lines by Fred Hartwig Summer 1983 North Western

Idunno, but I really appreciated an image illustrating hexagonal closest packing of circles. Meanwhile the imagination runs rampant with possibilities for a project I'm working on. -- Nolan Hinshaw,

I'm selling some S scale (real 1/64 scale, NOT American Flyer stuff) rolling stock for a friend that includes several 1937 AAR 40' box cars in various roadnames, along with other steam era freight

gary laakso wrote: PSC 32110. Beautiful parts. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538;

Brian-- I'll get a pair of the #202 trucks and finish the car as a Bx-11. Good thing that you now have Canadian suppliers. I picked your trucks up at Terry Link's booth at a train show 100 miles

Which part number did you order? I have their catalogues and have a list of parts to order and the project today is to find which one to order! TIA gary laakso south of Mike Brock where its 62