I built the Sunshine kit (15.1), and it was cast in the old yellow resin – thick and brittle. The running board supports had to be built up using 1x2 styrene strips, and it was royal PITA. The steel

And ... I just happen to have a few photos taken in 2015 of the old Morrell branch house in Syracuse. It is located on Erie Blvd on the near east side, and was probably switched by the DL&W on the

PHP (Packing House Products) consisted of far more than hanging meat, as Bill points out. There was canned meat, processed meat (think sausage, bacon, lunch meat, etc), meat by-products and meat

Morrell also had a slaughter house in Estherville Iowa, purchased from Tobin in 1953. Tobin purchased it in 1937 for hog slaughter, from the Estherville Packing Co. who built in the plant in 1935.

Hi Bill and Nelson, I dug out my 1954 Moody's Industrial's book. Morrell had three US p;ants at the time. Ottumwa was the largest 1.9 mil sq ft,, followed by Sioux Falls at 1.4 mil sq ft, and Topeka

They are around at shows all the time. Picked one up in October 2019. Brian J. Carlson

I don’t think the Red Caboose Mather reefers have been produced for almost a decade. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Is anyone making inverse ends, specifically inverse dreadnaught and/or inverse Hutchins ends? There are a few cars that I have long wanted to model that require such ends, but AFAIK they have not

There are 5 photos of Morrell 40ft Mather reefers in the Refrigerator Car Color Guide by Morning Sun. If you model reefers you really need this book. Bill Darnaby

I was about to point out that Morrell used a LOT of Mather meat reefers and Red Caboose has offered one for some years that seems to match many photos fairly well. BUT these are 36 ft. reefers. Didn't

I knew, absolutely KNEW, somebody would nit me on that. About as life-threatening as getting the journal box cover misidentified. Let’s just agree on Eastern something, with the onion

It's photos like this that makes one wonder if the ends initially remained FCR, same as the roof. I know dirty red can be mistaken for FC color, but the white lettering and fascia don't look all that

David Soderblom wrote: I agree with the modelability, David, but IIRC that's a Greek Orthodox church. One of the Pittsburghers on the list can correct me if that's wrong. Tony Thompson tony@...

Thanks so much; there are so many scenes that beg to be simulated in scale. I wouldn’t care to do the Russian Orthodox church, but there are all those lovely details: the combination of concrete

Have been systematically scanning my slides going back to 1968. Here's one from September 1962, stopped for a passing CB&Q freight in Edgemont SD on our way from the Black Hills to Colorado and just

My recollection is that the car was a one-of-a-kind with experimental sides. Can't remember how I know this. I've seen this photo or a similar one several times before, maybe in a CBC or Trainshed

Those stock cars of hogs answered the question about livestock in meat trains, and the FGEX produce reefer means that those trains weren’t all meat. I’ll check out the Red Caboose model. All this

Seriously, $79.99 ?!? But I do like the deteriorated and patched flatcar deck in the fg. Jack Mullen

I don't know anything about this car specifically. But I went back and looked carefully at it, and the vertical ribs appear to be equally spaced in each panel. If they're really there, perhaps it

Don't know if this one has been up before, https://www.ebay.com/itm/SRLX-Swift-Reefer-Box-Car-in-California-in-1950s-Original-Slide-e4b/324108985029?hash=item4b7666a2c5:g:YM4AAOSwlPleSaKG Dan Smith