From the NY Times a photo story of a Bugatti collection being loaded on to flat cars. http://tinyurl.com/33g46bd I am not sure if the TTX cars were built after 1960, but C.G. was not. Bob Witt

Gene, Athearn got ALL the tooling, including the tank car. Everything was shipped to China. I know--I was there. Brian Leppert Carson City, NV (ex-MDC employee for eighteen years)

When Athearn took over MDC they did not received the molds for the old-time" shorty tank car (with the ill-proportioned center-sill). Does anyone know if those molds still exist? Are they in the

boxcar that smells to me like it could a former Southern Rwy box... It shows a wood-bodied, double-sheathed box on a steel his question is were there standard lumber sizes to build the

I believe these 34-36 foot MDT cars were given "repair steel underframes" (steel center sills, bolsters and needle beams) starting in the teens and continuing into the 1920's. They later (post 1923)

Scott, do you have a photo of this car? Any idea how long it lasted and if it wss used in interchange service? Todd Horton ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Wed,

Scott, that's not an ex-Southern car; IIRC, all of the Southern XM single door box cars built between WW I and the late 1920s were 36' cars with truss rod underframes, and they were followed by

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