Don: The MEC car were brown until the green and yellow scheme of the 50s. You may be thinking of the Bangor and Aroostook cars they had green doors and ends when delivered. Brian J. Carlson,

Athearn announced new airslides today. Are the hatches on the Jack Frost car correct? I know the Jack frost PS-2 had different hatch locations.

I have numerous images of this car, photos of which were the primary resource used by RC in the development of their model. It has steel grid running boards, of course, which I believe are

JP, I'm afraid you're still off by a decade. Nikon introduced the F in 1959. Canon also introduced the Canonflex SLR and Minolta the SR-2 in 1959. The Nikon was considerably more advanced than

For the last ten years of CV steam, 1947-1957, southbound freights from Canada into St Albans, Vt rarely had open doors but northbound freights full of empty boxcars often had open doors. Bob

There was an AAR car service rule directing hoppers from certain roads, including C&O, be returned home without re-loading. Please see group message #60669 for details. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Ray,        Nice work sir. I was suspicious of my memory at the facility where I am for a couple weeks. This VA must have old navy crew from Nam cooking down below; tastes wretched! Fred

I have no idea Elden as I was under 12 years old. Clark Propst

Hi guys, My records are showing that these cars did NOT ever make it into NKP paint. The 1/1950 ORER shows 362 cars in the 72000-72999 series, but the 1/1951 ORER only shows 150 cars. By 1955 the

Steve, It it is the same as the CoG car, then the type 1 car should be fine for MEC. The BAR 1932 box cars had different ends. Check the as-built data sheet

One of the reasons for seeing doors open, and for keeping them closed and locked in transit, is that those heavy doors will open and close while in transit in reaction to train dynamics. When I first

Clark; Could they possibly have been in grain or flour service? I have lots of Paul Winters photos of box cars with open doors that look like powdered doughnuts, and wonder if it wasn't something

Elden,           IIRC, they were, but after 1953 as well as renumbered to higher numbers. Also, changed to 70 ton cap. Maybe Dean can correct if I'm not on the money.  Currenlt at VA and

It's common knowledge on this group that doors were to be closed on cars in transit. I grew up less that a half block from the CGW in Marshalltown IA then even closer to the M&StL in Mason City

How long did these cars last, and were all repainted in NKP paint? Thanks, Elden Gatwood

I'm sure they did! The PRR always had a shortage of PRR hoppers, so they had a policy like it, but then stole freely from everyone else to fill out the fleet.... And you also rarely saw C&O hoppers

Walthers made a half-way decent RTR model of these, but it was lettered for the wrong series, (71000 instead of 70000), and had a wood floor instead of steel. The wire grabs had to be added, I didn't

CJ Riley wrote: Sure, and I have some of them. I also have a list of the complete TS line, and certainly a majority are from Car or Locomotive or Track Cyclopedias. They do not, as I said,

The Amarillo Railroad Museum and Missouri Pacific Historical Society are pleased to announce a custom run of Athearn Airslide hoppers decorated for the Missouri Pacific. The cars are RTR without

Pennington's resin doors have the Union Duplex details. That is why he made them. Before any one wants to go there, I caught up to Joe a number of years ago and he has done left and has no interest in