JP can you please contact me off list. I tried to respond off list to your message but it was blocked, Jerry Glow http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/decals

OMG - I sent the older working file. It didn't even have the Mainline slogan. It should be correct now. http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/IC_l.jpg Jerry

fishbelly underframe... Hi Scott, Your friend really needs a Car Builder's Cyc from the early part of the century for the construction details, one of the old Train Shed Cyclopedia series might do.

J.P. Of course, the other way to correct the error is to simply change the color of the UP medallion to black and white while retaining everything else "as is" on the model. Better yet, for modelers

A friend wants to scratchbuild a model of LOP&G 601, a 40-foot boxcar that smells to me like it could a former Southern Rwy box. Not that I'm an expert on those, mind you. He sent me a copy of a

Are you sure? It seems to have diagonal panel roof and a 10'6 interior height, seems aq little more recent than '37. Staffan Ehnbom

The 40' plug door car has early Dreadnaught ends. Obviously rebuilt from a single door 10 panel '37AAR boxcar. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Ah, but it was in the ORPTE. My 1943 issue shows GTW 11490-11499 as all-steel 50'6" (IL) BX cars. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

Bob, GTW 11498 is part of a 15 car group numbered 11484-11499. According to the notes, box express cars in this series had small doors on each end for passage from one car to another, except:  cars

GTW 576631 was in the 576000-576999 series, all of which were in auto engine service (note the stenciling which reads "specially equipped for automobile engine loading"). There were 50 cars in

Can anyone provide information about these three GTW boxcars? The 50-ft former automobile car appears to be in express service at the time of the photo. The steel underframe car also appears to have

In 1941 the M&StL railroad made a weed killing outfit that put oil on the ground, it had covers over the rails. I personally have seen this done on the Milwaukee railroad in Iowa. It sure was a mess

Hello, people: Several squibs have appeared in the last week or two on this subject, which I have read with interest. To answer Bruce Smith's query, the upcoming Intermountain later R-30 series being

Schuyler- Thanks a bunch. You just cost me / saved me a bunch of money!! Charlie Vlk Sharing this information: Indiana University Press is having a sale, 2,500 titles at up to 80% off. Orders

Tim, The correct answer is yes, this is the car the Tichy model is trying to represent. I think the Tichy model is very, very close. The big problem with the Tichy representation is that the

Tim,  The short answer is yes and yes. The end sills should be flat, not a channel and the u/f  shouldn't be as deep as the Tichy.  See MM May 1984    Tom Christensen

Jerry, Is the two different sizes in the word CENTRAL intentional? Dennis

I completed the artwork changing the lettering to Gothic other than road name, reporting marks and number and am now taking orders. See: http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/IC_l.jpg Jerry

Particular road? The Pullman Library might have the drawings for the Standard Steel Car Co hopper car in that era. Contact me off-line. Thanks! Ted Anderson

I'm working on a USRA triple hopper project. Anyone that might have information / photos of car interiors or good photos of hopper doors / underside of car photos, please contact me off the list.