Bill, thanks for the reviews, now how do I get my mitts on these kits? Joe Binish

Michael, You wrote: Refer to page 90 of the April 2002 CRAFTSMAN for a Philip Hastings' April 1952 photo of three tractors on a 40 footer. The March 2002 RMC issue has another photo of this car on

Try Mainline Modeler 12/1992 -- I have notes showing RMJ 3/1991 has a photo of an X29d in MS paint but it might be a model photo. Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Sterling, Massachusetts

b.hom@... writes: Hi Listers, In his message, Ben Hom discribed the above lettering schemes for PRR Merchandise Service box cars. At least one X40b 60' box car was painted in the MS3

Again, thanks for the notes on the RI auto cars and the Sunshine meat reefers. Your experience will be very useful when I get around to building these cars. I'm impressed by how rapidly you're

Jeff Aley says ... FL that thank Meanwhile, Jeff, I'll be the deputy who checks to see that the flat cars are appropriately equipped with "little buggers"; aka, air brake system air release rods.

during Ed 2000 as gearboxes, For those of you out there who are still paying attention, there *is* a horizontal shaft brake wheel that is "similar" to the Universal vertical-shaft wheel pictured in

Paul Lyons comes through with the blow by blow and the bottom line is ... yes, Virginia, it is possible to "spot weld" the edges of resin castings with CA and then later break the joints by using a

Two days ago there was the question of why tractor loads had to be for six tractors on a 50' car. While I am sure the tariff made this the most cost effective option, could tractors be shipped in

Bill Darnaby, in a series of welcome reports on the building of various resin kits, has often mentioned temporarily joining various pieces with AC cement in order to ensure that they are of

I recently finished assembling an Armour and a Swift 36' wood reefer. The Armour car is a Sunshine "private stock" kit offered at Naperville and similar to 24.20 but with rebuilt wide tongue in

I recently finished assembling a 40' and a 50' single sheathed automobile boxcar by Rocket Express (kits RI-1 and RI-3, respectively). These cars are 1930 era 12' door auto boxes with end doors and

Guys, I wanted to forward this to the list from my brother who is not a member of the list. It is a reply to a message from Ben Hom. Ed Martin Writes; Ben and All, Greg and I discussed this

Ben Hom (b.hom@...) writes: << MS1 (1947-1948): Classes X40b (100 cars), X41b (300 cars), X29b (some cars - total undetermined). 23 ¼" wide aluminum band with 4 ¼" white

I came across the below linked photo in the abpr archives at www.railfan.net when I was putting together a post to a different list. The photo just seemed to sum up about all one might wish to

Jan (webercanyon) asked: Were any of the PRR X-43C boxcars painted in the Merchandise Service paint scheme? Ian Clasper answered: X29, X29b, X40b, X41b - yes, X43c, I am almost certain that the

Rodger- I use the same process as Bill to get dead even sides. I sand on a glass palette, the backs of the sides till the surrounding flash is super thin. This does two things, it get gets the sides

The answer is both, depending on when they were built. The CofGa 50' cars built in 1937 had square cornered ends, while the later cars had round cornered ends. W corner posts and round cornered ends

John Golden wrote Not really. Many railroads bought small numbers of 50 foot steel box cars before the war. And there were far more single sheathed wood (and even steel) automobile & furniture 50

Guys, This recent discussion on CofGA 40' and 50' cars brings up an interesting note. I'm sure a lot of other roads had pre-war 50' cars, but it seems like the southeastern roads each had a few types