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Re: Rapido reefer

Tim, The Hygrade’s, Oscar Mayer, Swift and Kingan were made just for you. I expect an order for a four pack each... ;>) Bill Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:31 PM To:

By Bill Schneider · #96269 ·

Re: Rapido reefer

Bill, for those of us who model only AFTER 1954, do you think Rapido will be doing any repaints or at least post-1954 versions of these reefers? I know it can be quite difficult to find photos other

By Tim O'Connor · #96268 ·

Re: New Index effort

Denny, this looks like it could develop into an excellent resource, but it also may need some strong auditing to ensure consistent quality and terminology*. I looked at just two issues of Mainline

By Tim O'Connor · #96267 ·

Re: Rapido reefer

The only problem that I have with the GARX wood reefer is when I went out to shovel snow, I started thinking about the cars and started drooling -- ice cycles formed. I came in, thawed out and then

By James Babcock · #96266 ·

Re: Mentoring please?

Thanks Ed. I was only going by the Youngstown doors shown on the web page. If I'd looked into my kit box (#1609) I would have seen the correct Superior doors. Tim O'Connor

By Tim O'Connor · #96265 ·

Re: Rapido reefer

Bill, Are we going to get a chance to see the final tooling results before we have to place our orders? Ed Edward Sutorik

By spsalso · #96264 ·

UP A-50-12 included in Laramie train moves

Hi Everyone Barring a white-out blizzard, on February 7, 8, and 9, 2011, four pieces of railroad equipment will be moved from various places around Laramie, Wyoming, to Railroad Heritage Park located

By Wendye Ware · #96263 ·

Re: New Index effort

I think you pretty much just did explain it. It was started in response to Kalmbach shutting down their index. They're also more open to what magazines and periodicals can be indexed, including

By Jeff Shultz <jeff@...> · #96262 ·

New Index effort

Can anyone explain or expand upon the new "NMRA-based" periodical indexing system at <http://www.olimpia.com:8084/magazine-index.html> ? This is NOT the renewed Kalmbach system, but is a separate

By dennyanspach <danspach@...> · #96261 ·

Re: Rapido reefer

Yes... and no. Not likely. The biggest group with Duryea’s was the Oscar Mayer cars. We chose car numbers that did NOT have Duryea’s. Of everybody buys a bunch of reefers I might talk Jason into

By Bill Schneider · #96260 ·

Re: Rapido reefer

Bill, In your decisions about paint schemes, are you taking into account that some of these cars had Duryea underframes? Any chance you will do the Duryea variant? Kind regards, Garth Groff

By Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...> · #96259 ·

Rapido reefer

With Mike’s indulgence... We have received many questions about what schemes we are going to be producing on the new GARX wood reefer first shown at Cocoa Beach. Last night we updated our web site

By Bill Schneider · #96258 ·

Decals for the Hormel Shake N Take

Are the decals for this kit still available? Thanks, Ed Shoben

By eshoben <eshoben@...> · #96257 ·

Re: Saving Periodicals (freight car content, "of course")

Al, Amen to that! When we moved from Illinois to New Hampshire, in 1997, the local moving company could not get the local labor to help unload the truck. The driver, his helper and myself unloaded

By O Fenton Wells · #96256 ·

Re: Saving Periodicals (freight car content, "of course")

I've already had that floor issue happen in the basement floor structure: The roughing carpenters only put a single 2 x 12 in under the barring wall holding up a cantilevered second story room

By water.kresse@... · #96255 ·

Re: Mentoring please?

Tim, The 7'-wide Superior doors furnished in the Branchline kits (#1608 and #1609) are the correct configuration for the X43B box cars. Regards, Ed Hawkins

By Ed Hawkins · #96254 ·

Re: Mentoring please?

Chuck The big irony here is that CB&T actually made the correct body version for the X43B -- DP roof, R+3/4 ends, 10p riveted, 7' door opening. But then decorated the wrong body for the X43B! Now,

By Tim O'Connor · #96253 ·

Re: Mentoring please?

Hi - I'm certainly not an expert, but I am willing to help out. Checking out prr.railfan.net (a particularly useful site) here: http://prr.railfan.net/freight/classpage.html?class=X43 The version

By Randy Hammill · #96252 ·

Re: Saving Periodicals (freight car content, "of course")

25+ years ago I began tearing out the freight car articles and filing in folders marked by car type (boxcars, reefers, gons, etc) alphabetized by RR A-N and N-Z). This got me the prototype photos I

By Charlie Duckworth · #96251 ·

Re: Mentoring please?

It's a ten panel car, five each side of an 8 foot door. I'll hate to get the details right then mess it up with my usual paint job but maybe I'll get lucky. It has happened. Thanks, guys. Chuck Peck

By lnnrr <lnnrr@...> · #96250 ·

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