Max & Bob, Bob Liljestrand moved to Kentucky several years ago. His current address is P.O. Box 52, Wallingford, KY 40193, phone 606-845-3323. Regards, Ed Hawkins

I have a card from Naperville 2009 that says -- Bob's Photo P.O. Box 52 Wallingford, KY 41093 Tel: 606-845-3323 I sure hope that he is going to be at Naperville this October!  He's the

it's 606-845-3323, P.O. Box 52, Wallingford, KY 41093. Norm Buckhart [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Bob Slavinski wrote: An ancient address and phone, sir. Bob's been located in Kentucky for over two years. I do think he changed addresses again quite recently, so am not sure I have the

Ed, I've been shipping models now many years now using the mail exclusively. I find the rates fair and the delivery times quite acceptable, even to Europe from Canada. Pierre Oliver

While I was mainly looking at N scale, I never saw a 10 panel version of this car from Atlas, can you point to a reference? Don Burn

The latest issue of the TRP (The Railroad Press) has him located in Kentucky. Randy Williamson www.prrfreight.com Quoting Bob Slavinski : Hi there....I goolged Bob's Photo's in Ansonia, CT

Did you try First class, Ed. priority is a little higher but they might have a box you can use. Mark Morgan

Assume by round center springs you mean the sideframes had round holes for the springs? These are Taylor trucks that were used on a few gondola cars and class MXu box cars and tried on 2 bay hoppers.

If I'm not mistaken there are pictures of these cars in the Kalmbach reprint of the 1941CBC. Carbon black is very fluffy (i.e. few lbs./cu ft.) and significant amount gets lost when it's packed in

Guyz, I bought 2 pair of the round center spring package trucks for a Reading project; then promptly lost my notes. Do any Reading modelers have the short list of cars so equipped? Thanks in advance

Oops! I was going for "Cancel" and hit "send" instead. Obviously I haven't answered Ben's question. Apologizes to all. Gene Green Out in the badlands of New Mexico where, apparently, confusion

Ben, I got so involved in precisely wording my question as if I were a lawyer or something that I got off track.

Ditto for the 2D-F8's. Rick Schoch PRRT&HS #8245

oops. I had not read Ed Hawkins' post on these cars when I posted this. CABX 350089 is a 3465 cft car, slightly larger than the Railshop or F&C kits or the Overland brass model (OMI 3274). The

Red Ball produced an HO model of a Carbon Black covered hopper c. 1941 ff. From this slim piece of evidence, I would presume the prototypes arose in the '30s sometime. Denny Denny S. Anspach,

It's been a while, but not that long Armand! I think the RPI kits appeared around 1990 - 20 years ago (more or less). Tim O'Connor

Gene Green wrote: "Thanks to all who responded to my inquiry. After all your help with my research it is clear that none of these models, whether Sunshine, Westerfield or Accurail, are correct for

Cars of this design have been photographed in service as recently as 2000 (10 years ago), e.g. CABX 350089. This indicates they were built over a longer period than most freight cars, perhaps 25+

Thanks for your response. When you wrote "perhaps one or two" which one's ? Doug Kinder