Bill, the diagrams in the Santa Fe Freight Car Folio show these cars as having wood running boards, and in the many photos I have, cars photographed in the late '40s and early '50s all appear to

Bill, the diagrams in the Santa Fe Freight Car Folio show these cars as having wood running boards, and in the many photos I have, cars photographed in the late '40s and early '50s all appear to

Jon, if you're talking about the rumored plastic model of the Tk-G through Tk-J class tank cars, I think the answer is - when pigs fly. Richard Hendrickson

Isaac Herrera wrote: Yes. That emblem was only discontinued in 1936, so by 1941 there would have been a number of these paint schemes still running. But remember, in that era PFE often washed

Hello, my name's Isaac Herrera and I'm new 'round here. I'm currently in the process of building an HO scale freight car roster for an eventual 1941 southern California themed layout. For the most

Is there any current comments on the possible ATSF tank car? Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI user NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS

My next project is the Santa Fe BX-11/12 raised roof boxcar. I bought the kit after a comment made in Naperville that proclaimed this the "Signature" Santa Fe boxcar. The kit comes with both a

Jim, Try Dan Hicks. He has several very nice decal sets for the LV, and I think one that would work for that car. Naturally I can't find his list of decals right now. He doesn't

I've reached the conclusion that I'll never live long enough to build all the cars in the kit bunker so it's time to clean house. I have listed all cars for sale on an Excel spread sheet with three

Come one Come all to the GSMTS this weekend and see a pre-production model of the Fox Valley Models M-53 Wagontop Boxcar. That's right, come get all your questions answered as to "Is this car really

Tom, You are mistaken about the paint dates. The Georgia RR rebuilt USRA boxcars have been discussed a number of times over the years on this list. The general consensus is that they were

Dennis Storzek wrote: Not from all railroads. The SP had been building box cars of 9' 0" or more inside height (with Z-bar bracing) before the USRA cars came along, and after the war (when they

Um, yes. Tichy #9132.

Good luck! Rich Meyer was working on a set, HC-53, when he passed away and the set was never released AFAIK. If you can find them, Champ HH-281 was special 10" heralds for hoppers, HH-171/HH-271 were

Jim, I scanned through the Herald King Decal offerings and I didn't find a set of hopper decals but there might be something in their gondola decals that would work. Might check with

Speaking to the USRA in particular, I believe the use of pressed shapes was driven by the cost and demand for rolled shapes during the war. Once the stamping dies were set up for volume production,

But then again, the ARA reverted to standard mill shapes for the stakes in MOST of the ARA standard twin, triple, and quad hoppers. There was a reasonable amount of resistance to the 9'-0" IH of the

It would seem that some 1920's cars were built with the USRA type pressed frame members, but many were not. PRR added reinforcing "boots" on the ends of the framing on many X26 USRA designed cars, and

Ben-- Thanks for the info. Steve Lucas.

Does anyone know of a source for white Georgia RR decals for the Tichy steel outside braced boxcar? As I understand it the silver paint scheme was not instituted until the late 1950's so not