Speaking of new Walther's cabooses, has anyone seen one of their advertised wood, center-cupola, C&O prototype caboose models? They were announced at the same time as the "Roundhouse-clone" models,

I have more caboose jpegs lined up to send Ted for his web site. Among them are DWP, GTW (center cupola) and WAB that are similar to the new Walthers car. I think Walthers did some nifty marketing

Has Jay scrapped the internet or made a change in ISO's? When I did a search, non of the links worked. Victor Baird Fort Wayne, Indiana

Speaking of flat car loads, anyone know of the rules [ in our period, of course ] for people riding the loads? I am aware that military personnel did ride in vehicles at times [ I'm assuming this

Hi: See my previous message. I too saw the same series of advertisements in MR as to a GTW caboose being an expected product. -- Stafford Swain 26 Kenneth Street Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T

Hi: It may well be a GTW caboose which a team of CNR/GTW/CV fans (including myself) covered in RMC a while back. -- Stafford Swain 26 Kenneth Street Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 0K8 (204)

Ian, You are correct sir, there are no tie down cables. The kit includes a spool of thread, but having tried thread before (look at the PRR flat with the pole load) I thought of using wire from the

The original posting was about a car in a picture of a flood that appeared to be 50' long. Behind it were several boxcars with windows in them that the poster evidently thought might have been early

Charles and Doug, Very informative posts Thank you very much, Clark

The Walthers caboose is a generic car that looks like a lot of cabooses. Hence the confusion. See the info in the lastest RMJ. Clark Mike Brock wrote:

Mike Brock asked: I noticed a new wood caboose in my hobby shop yesterday. A 30' Walthers caboose, cupola on the end, 3 windows ahead of it. Lettered variously, it looks like a photo of a CB&Q [ I'm

Friends, Jeff Koeller is attempting to contact Robert Oom, if anyone here would let Robert know it would be much appreciated. Jeff can be contacted at: rkjmk@... Regards & Thank You, Guy

MOFWCABOOSE@... writes: Could someone update me on this thread? I've been deleting the references to the CB&Q cars, since that isn't my area of interest, but I am very interested in the

I read they switched to polyester textiles, and became Klinger Pants. ba-dum-bump. Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Sterling, Massachusetts

Mike Brock wrote Yes, they are incredibly overpriced. Barring that, I will send you a scan separately of a 3-window CB&Q caboose that is vaguely similar to the model. The biggest difference for me

Doug Harding, in an interesting and informative post, mentioned: Now THERE'S a name for a paint company. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA

I noticed a new wood caboose in my hobby shop yesterday. A 30' Walthers caboose, cupola on the end, 3 windows ahead of it. Lettered variously, it looks like a photo of a CB&Q [ I'm not saying that it

Marshalltown, Ia had a Diamond Paint and Varnish plant, also known as Diamond Products, Inc and later merged into Diamond Vogel Paints, served by the M&StL. This could have been one industry receiving

Thanks for pointing this out, Russ. I also looked at the drawing for what I assumed from the title would be the CP's USRA SS Clone box cars. I was quite surprised when I found a drawing of a USRA

As near as I can tell, the round objects are nuts for truss rods. David Soderblom Baltimore MD Shawn Beckert