That depends on the car in question. The Ralston GS gons certainly did have doors over the trucks, as did some Cambria cars of that era. The broader point about the volume used by the customer is

That looks like it will be a nice model in either HO or N if the do it right. If you look at that prototype photo you can see the Tatum slack adjuster there on the right side sill of car near the

Marty, no I was asking about the plain B&O capital dome in a circle. Bruce, thanks for confirming that the plain B&O capital dome should be on the cars in the as-delivered scheme. And Denis, good to

Let me remind folks that WrightTRAK has custom decals for these M53's that cover ALL the paintschemes as applied to these cars. Denis Blake 2011 Central Ohio Prototype Modelers Meet, May

Gene, Are you referring to the plain B&O capital dome that is seen on the left side of these cars? Yep, it is missing from the artwork! But hey, that's what decals are for ;^) and at least this

Dave Sieber wrote: "Three prime examples from my replace-the-running-boards bin: Kadee #s 4822, 4917 & 4924, as WP 19521, 21068 & 20834 respectively; the prototypes were built 10-51 in PS lot#8027,

Plain bearing trucks are correct for the as-built B&O PS-2 offered by Kadee. Bob Witt Larry Kline wrote: with plain bearing trucks, has the wrong trucks. >

Gene, If the lettering you're referring to is a small round "T" in a circle to the left of the number that indicates the car is suitable for B&O LCL "T"imesaver service. So it wouldn't have been on

The first photo I sent of RPRX 571 was taken at Fayetteville, NC by Col. Chet McCoid in 10/51 (Bob's Photo Collection). The photo below of MUNX 3483 was taken in 1940 and is from the Joe

Clark, I'd be curious where Bob got "lots of pictures" of the 37' Mather reefers in Rath service. I was a consultant to Red Caboose on the HO scale model and found very few photos of the 37'

--- In STMFC@..., Tim O'Connor wrote: "Many of the PS-1 box cars have incorrect running boards" and Benjamin Hom wrote: "Which PS-1s? Which road names?" Gentlemen, Three prime examples

Dennis, Thanks for the short and logical historical update.  Al

I have a friend that models in 1 1/2" gauge, he's building a Mathers reefer and has some questions I how you fellas can answer? So I can pass them along to him and take the credit of course : ) Any

Or utilization at all if there happens to be no coal to haul at the moment. Yes, you can rotary dump a wooden gon; I just saw an image on Shorpy a while ago of a wooden gon in a rotary dumper, but

So the goal is higher utilization of empties on the return trips?  If you look at the coal cars going up to Toledo, at best, a sixth of came back down with iron ore and every so often some few more

Three of the B&O M53 box cars show up on the Landmesser hot box list so I "need" some. I immediately pulled out RP CYC #9 to compare FVM illustrations with the photos in the M53 article. It appears

Ahhh, I thought have thought to do this earlier. I just recently purchased this slide on E-bay, and the seller still has his illustration up. This is one of the few (maybe only) photos I've ever seen

Walt Lankenau asked: "Question: the announcement shows two of the earlier paint schemes with a brownish body color, and the later large "B&O" scheme looks more reddish, like oxide red. Did B&O

Excellent! We've heard rumblings about an injection molded wagontop on this list for a while, now. Question: the announcement shows two of the earlier paint schemes with a brownish body color, and the

The 1905 era gons with drop doors didn't have doors over the trucks, so weren't "self clearing" and still required men to shovel about half the load out through the doors. The quest for a self