And how is it that I end up owing Richard and Tony a beer, EVERY year? <G> Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/index.pl/bruce_f._smith2 "Some days you are the bug,

Ned, Just to be clear, I think the Overland car is not an ICC 105. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/index.pl/bruce_f._smith2 "Some days you are the bug, some

Richard wrote: Bruce, you owe me and Tony a beer at Naperville. Richard Hendrickson   Please no fire alarm this year, that sucked!   Brian Carlson

<I would bid myself but I am not sure asphalt would travel across the country.> I think you will find that "asphalt" as applied to a road is locally manufactured and shipped by truck. Liquid

Joe, any inquiry about GATC tank cars opens up a huge can of worms. However, Tony is absolutely correct that the designation for wine cars, cotton oil cars, etc. was AAR 203, not ICC 203, since

Highly unlikely, Ned. But that model, including the lettering, is dead-on accurate, as it was developed from a Will Whittaker photo in my collection, so it's an attractive offering to anyone who

Not enough to make much of a difference, Ian. The CGTX fleet consisted of 1243 cars in 7/43 and 2472 in 1/53, and some of those additional cars were new. The GATC fleet in 1/53 was 45,632, by

perhaps a Sunshine frame to make the ICC 105 car. There is an Overland Insulated GATX car on E-bay right now.

Tony Thompson wrote: "There was an outstanding article in _Mainline Modeler_ back in October 1985 by Mark Feddersen on such a conversion, though his goal was an ICC 104. He did shorten and redetail

Bruce Smith wrote: There was an outstanding article in _Mainline Modeler_ back in October 1985 by Mark Feddersen on such a conversion, though his goal was an ICC 104. He did shorten and

Tony -   OK, thanks.  I hope that you and Richard remain on good terms (and I hope I didn't open up a can of worms here)?   Joe [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Bruce Smith wrote: I sure wish Richard hadn't made that mis-statement--now it's getting repeated. There in fact is NOT any such thing as an ICC 203. The 203 designation is for ARA and AAR cars

I looked at one of mine, and it took me awhile before I realized it was an Atlas model. I also have realized it has the as-built 1937 paint scheme, and I know about the Speedwitch decal, and thanks

GATC was also a partner (with Canadian Car & Foundry) in Canadian General Transit, formed in 1932. In the post-WW II years, a good number of these older GATC cars apparently found their way to the

Richard -   Yeah, I kinda liked reading the description of each tank car series in the 1953 ORER.  Could it get any more general here (sorry the bad pun towards the "G" in GATX)?  Almost every

Bruce's response is generally right, as far as it goes. To the best of my knowledge, GATC trashed all of their photos and documentation on steam and transition era tank cars years ago, and apart

Bruce -   OK, thanks.  At least that's a starting point for HO Scale cars.   Joe

Joe, For models of GATC built cars in HO, there are a couple of choices. Sunshine now has a type 30 kit that has been done in a number of markings. The type 30 was also brought in in brass by Red

I thought so. I seem to remember a conversation with John Golden who had to do some kitbashing to get an accurate model of what they're supposed to be. I think he made patterns and cast new sides to

Interesting question. The models appear to be stencilled (if I read the pictures correctly) as class B-6, to which neither the body nor the numbers correspond. This class comprised '32 ARA cars with