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

Gene, There is another of these ex-DODX tanks in the collection of the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California. It can be seen at: http://www.wplives.org/roster.html . Unfortunately,

....from Bethlehem in 1918 http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675044664_manufacture-of-ordnance_Bethleh em-Steel-company-plant_freight-train_cannons So, what do you know about that great W&LE gon?

But the affordable box cameras for the masses with fixed focus and aperture plus a wide angle effect were horrible. They also leaked light at times! LOL And at times it would seem that Murphy's Law

Mike Calo wrote: Mike, the Train Sheds did not have the name "Cyclopedia" by accident. They are largely reprints of portions of the _Car Builders' Cyclopedia_ volumes of different years. Thus

John C. La Rue, Jr. wrote: Entirely true. Plenty of amateurs took care to obtain fine images with early cameras, and of course a number of the serious ones had press cameras, for that matter.

Gene, Unfortunately, drawing 31-7758 was not included in the collection donated by ACF to the Museum of Transportation. Drawing numbers close to this number have a date of January 1945. Regards, Ed

Oops! In our (telephone) conversations modeling never came up. Gene Green

Al, Thanks for refreshing my memory. Dan Smith is the person I had in mind. Gene Green

Thanks to all who replied: Brian, Chris, Tony, Richard and Gene. Might do one up as it should be and use the rest for eBay! Dad spent two weeks a Holloman years ago and said they probably forgot