Thank you for correcting my misstatement.  My face is as red as those shirts you'll be wearing this weekend! Lou Whiteley Lawrenceville, NJ ________________________________ To:

X29D first appeared in the ORER in April 1952 issue for PRR that means they were "new" in January 1952 (PRR ORER listings are 3 months behind the date of issue). The first 1000 cars were delivered by

And of the course, I know nothing about your BOM so supplying or not supplying trucks may not make a material change in price. Keep up the good work. I am glad that you are doing freight cars

Victor Baird asked: "This question goes to Denis and Gary and the rest of you. Would it be preferable to NOT include trucks with your kits and perhaps knock the price down a couple of dollars? I say

LOUIS WHITELEY wrote: That should read Kalmbach LIBRARY (NMRA). It was NOT reprinted by Kalmbach Publishing. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

This question goes to Denis and Gary and the rest of you. Would it be preferable to NOT include trucks with your kits and perhaps knock the price down a couple of dollars? I say this because most of

Hello Elden and Group, I like this car. As I model and operate daily except Sunday in 1953 -- that is, each operating session is the next day in the year of 1953 -- an early X29D would be a good

The Kalmbach reprint of the January 1953 ORER (PRR's report dated 10/31/1952) lists 585 X29d boxcars in the series 25501 - 26500.  The 10/31/53  PRR section of the January 1954 ORER on Jerry

What is the status of his collection? From whom are they available from? I ask because I note someone selling prints (not negatives) on ebay and they mentioned that they came from his estate. Perhaps

First rebuilds were late '51 or early '52 (I am drawing a blank) and appearing in one group of 1000 mid-'52. Those may have had ends different than later rebuilds, but no one on the Committee has

Hi Jeff, Thanks for the link. Very interesting. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Steve, Chris Barken, a noted freight car historian, at one of the Naperville meetings introduced a metric he termed "car-years", which is summing the numbers of cars in the fleet each year over the

Hi Bill, I also know very little about the Pennsy. But I remembered that there's somebody with a whole bunch of Pennsy freight car info on his website. Google revealed that it is

I'm not a Pennsy modeler either and we (undisclosed accompllces) though it would be a good idea but apparantly there were detail differences in the early cars with the CK scheme that pretty much rule

Thanks Bob, That's exactly what I was looking for. And I'm surprised that no one (to my knowledge) has ever offered a kit for the M-8 and M-8a considering that there were a lot of these cars built

Good morning Jerry and Group, First, Jerry, thank you for the efforts regarding a CK decal set for the upcoming WrightTRAK PRR X29D. Second, not being a PRR fan or having any knowledge hidden away

FINALLY! IMHO the SAL V-9/V-10 vents were some of the most visually appealing examples of the ventilated box car design. Everyone can use at least one car and southeastern modelers will need several.

I believe 50' class X47 also had ODP roofs, as well. One group of X29 rebuilds, all X29D, were done in that timeframe. All later X29 rebuilds were done '55 and later. Elden Gatwood

Thanks to help from Steve Hoxie, I am working on a decal set for the CK scheme applied to the first 1000 cars. Prelim artwork: http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/PRR_X29d.jpg Jerry Glow

Bob Many all-in-one scanner/printer/copiers have descreen filters in their TWAIN drivers. But your library copier probably does not do this. Too bad because descreen is required to pull a clear image