John Did you ever get any of Joe Pennington's resin parts? He made some absolutely beautiful doors for the 1937 AAR box car. I think he made them specifically for the SLSF cars but I'm pretty

Brian, I thought there were 1932 cars on the MEC that were assigned to paper traffic and had a red with green doors and end scheme. Don Burn

Don the scheme was the orginial brown one. The green and YELLOW started in the mid 50's notes are at home will post a more accurate date later unless someone beats me to it.   Brian Carlson.

Was that Brown and White the original scheme? When did the red and green scheme occur? Don Burn

Atlas offered the MEC original scheme in the first release of the N scale model in 2008, didn't they do the same in the HO series? bb

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Thanks for you reply. I've heard that some roads like C&O requested that their hoppers be returned empty and not loaded off line. Do you know of other roads with this policy? I can't recall seeing a

Thanks to the half dozen members making instructive and insightful comments on my Varney piece of two days ago. Sometimes-too often, perhaps- I'm guilty of oversimplifying what I'm trying to say or

I suspect some masters are done with the rivet shaving technique, and some are done with a NWSL riveter. I was talking to Steve Funaro about his new X26C, and his wife commented to me that he was

I bought a couple of these cars yesterday, a Central of Georgia and a Type 1 undec, which should become an MEC or BAR car. (Can anyone recommend decals for either of these roads for theis Atlas

John; I am glad you opened this one up. I have noticed some disparities between some of my Sunshine kits that I can't figure out, and had done a comparison of my Sunshine and Branchline-based X29Bs,

I thought the Sunshine 1932 cars were created for Martin by F&C early on; is this correct?  If so, this might possibly account for some of the issues. Jim Brewer Glenwood MD

Brian,            PRR did LCL trasfers to MKT in StLouis. Sounds like East texas is a valid idea. Will that be 1 or 2 cars? Fred Freitas ________________________________ To: STMFC List

Brian; Yeah, they are, and I saw a test model; very nice. You should take a look at their PRR H25 and X26C models. Also very nice. Those you can use. Elden Gatwood

This is one of my favorites, and shows great use of the AAR loading rules for this long structural steel

I see F&C is releasing the PRR container car shown in the video, too. Wish I could justify one in East Texas... Thanks! -- Brian P. Ehni From: "Gatwood, Elden J SAD"

Hi Tim, I considered doing just that--copy-casting the Sunshine doors and using them on the Atlas model. However, I found that fixing a Sunshine door on the Atlas car would be taking a step backwards

You'll get a kick out of this... http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675073409_railroad-development_Hump-opera tion_control-tower_teletype-list Elden Gatwood

Thanks, Eric! That is a very cool car. Did it have the rotating handbrake like the USRA car? You have your work cut out for you. Elden Gatwood

Eldon, It looks like the gon has W&LE number 70570. These were built in March and April of 1916 by Standard Steel Car and Pressed Steel Car. This design seems to have been a major influence on the