Railroads with lots of grain traffic continued to buy box cars with 6 foot doors. Rock Island bought some new ACF 40 foot cars with 6 foot doors in 1959 (26500-26899). Rock also continued to buy 40

Richard has already covered me here but yes it will be a Standard Brands/Fleishman car. the tank itself will be formed so no wrapping it around a tube of PVC but there are oodles of things, especially

Bill, A small exception to your statement: The WP had 1945 Mt. Vernon-built 40' boxcars with 6' doors. In 1947 they riveted bought 7' door cars from Pullman (your excellent new kit, thank you.).

Guy Wilber wrote It figures. And almost immediately the SP, T&NO, and Cotton Belt began buying box cars with 7 ft doors: over 10,000 of them during the decade. Tim O'Connor

OK I have a question. Cars that are outlawed for interchange. If the car is a privately owned and is loaded and shipped from the owners/lease holder of the car plants, is this not considered

The Wabash first built 40' box cars with 8 ft doors in 1951. They were numbered 6000-6299. The next year the railroad built the last 40' cars with 6 ft doors numbered 7000-7299. All new 40 ft box

Bill Welch wrote: One of the N&W photos was a H21a leased from the Pennsy. I was aware that they had leased these cars but did not realize it was during my time frame. Ordinarily I would be content

Ed Hawkins writes: the but Only one AC&F order As usual, happenings in the real world are/were not as straight forward as one might like. Nevertheless, while the Kato car will apparently work for

A few musings on this subject while I finish my morning coffee... I did some rough (very) compilations based on roster data provided by Ed Hawkins for our research (some of which is available on

Paul, I don't have any resource material here at work, so I will have to get back to you on this, but the D&LW had several classes of post-war boxcars with 12-panel sides and 8' doors. The old Front

Garth Groff wrote: "C&BT produced some 12-panel boxcars with various door widths and end types. Their 6' door car with 4/4 ends can match certain ATSF and D&RGW classes (with some tinkering). AFAIK,

Kevin, Are you sure about this use for gilsonite? Gilsonite is a solidified petroleum, roughly akin to solid tar. I can't see how it was used in cement, though it might have substituted for coal in

Richard is correct, after closer inspection (with correction for my older eyes) A small built date of 11/27 appears on the right side of the tank car. Thank you all for the help identifying this car

Shawn, It's not quite so simple. Door width depends a lot on the road you model, the traffic it carried, its interchange partners, and the era. Dave's study of the 1950 ORER is very enlightening in

Ned Carey wrote: I know Al Westerfield offers these in some kits. (I just broke off some on my Westerfield B&O USRA gondola, hence my current interest) Doesn't Martin offer these in etched stainless

In a message dated 6/25/02 6:17:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, branch@... writes: << 10,576 (~7%) of these were 7' door cars sold to 14 railroads between 1946 and 1956. >> Of Interest: The

I only stayed for while this past Saturday. It was very crowded as it was in two smaller buildings. Steve Funaro had castings for his NMRA convention kit, three different versions of a Florida East

As recently as about 1990, I saw a similar vintage PQ ACF-built, insulated 103 Baltimore at Lamberts Point on the former B&O. At that time it was painted in an attractive (albeit faded) blue and

I'm a newcomer to the Group, but not to the hobby (!). Just want to acknowledge the work of Ted Culotta and John Golden (who at the last minute was not able to enjoy the fruits, meats and vegetables

Anyone know of a source for these kits without the horrible molded on details? Ebay although useful, is not the best place as the vendors of these cars do not give the detail that we want and some