Where are you saying these fit in the evolutionary chain, Rob? The first steel frame boxcars used stock mill shapes, either Z, C, or L section, while some of the last single sheathed composite cars

Guys, Does anyone know of a good source for Lehigh Valley decals? I've got a Stewart fish-belly side hopper that I'd like to paint for Lehigh Valley. Thanks. Jim Hunter

The distinctive fishbelly underbelly underfrmes were used for a caboose rebuilding program starting in the late 40's and into the 50's resulting in what became the de facto standard steel caboose of

This is one of a large number of single-sheathed cars which were upgraded to all-steel by MoPac at the DeSoto (MO) shop in the early 1950s. The original ends remained. Some cars had the Murphy as

The Missouri Pacific boxcar photos are up. They can be seen here.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/photos/album/619899423/pic/list

Rob Kirkham wrote: I don't know the answer to your question, Rob, but SP and several other railroads which had received USRA single-sheathed cars did not duplicate them in subsequent years but

A while ago I was able to make a trip into Sandon BC and take photos and measurements of the freight cars there. Now I'm writing a description of two of the cars. They were from the CPR

Lots of cool models thanks for sharing. I really liked Jim Dalbergs's Lackawanna TOFC with the canvas roof. Might have to steal that idea! Scott

I uploaded a few photos of a single door Missouri Pacific boxcar I took a couple weeks ago.Their waiting for moderator approval. It was found on the siding of the Dardanelle and Russelville Railroad

Richard, thanks! To add data points, the 1955 Illinois Central Annual Report has a color photo of a whole string of white A.E. Staley tank cars in Decatur Illinois, next to a gigantic grain elevator

The RPM-East 2011 event wrapped up a couple of weekends ago. There are two Internet sites that feature images and video taken at the event. A number of the display room models were digitally captured

I have photos of Type 27s with both black and aluminum tanks leased by SHPX to Staley in the '30s and '40s, so the IM cars are definitely authentic, though I don't know how long those leases

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hi all; I thank you all for your responses on container cars, and now wonder if you can provide any insights into what RRs were using the following

I have two Intermountain Type 27 tank car paint schemes - black car, and a silver car. And I have a Proto2000 Type 21 paint scheme - orange. I'm pretty sure there were orange cars, and WHITE cars in

I have lots of builder's photos of later Type 27s built for Shippers Car Line that match the specs above. These cars were built in 1937-'41 and numbered in the 20xxx through 226xx series. I also

Gentlemen, I'm having a lot of fun rebuilding an Intermountain car this week with all the brass and metal parts, etc., but I looked close at my prototype photo and found that I goofed up.  Turns

I ordered my various Walthers UP CA1's February 25th of 2005. And I received them not a whole lot later than that. Check out 932-7541, 2, 3 on the Walthers site. Ed Edward Sutorik

Hi Greg, Today's lunch-time surfing turned up

Hi Greg, I've been mulling this over, because I know I have seen the Western logo in print somewhere. There have been brochures and/or old magazine ads from Austin-Western for sale on eBay

You can look at the trucks and see if the are marked B&O or C&O.  Their twin hops got mixed up during the joint operating era.  C&O was buying deadlined B&O hopper cars from the B&O and rebuilding