I do not remember if any of the cars w/welded roofs were painted BCR, I need to look at the photos I have. Bill Welch

Where any of the butt welded cars know to be painted BCR? George Courtney

Fine build Rich. Hope to see it among the models you bring for display at the Modelers Retreat. Lester Breuer

No problem, Garth. I model 3 era's in particular, mostly 1955 though Rich Christie

Rich, Thanks for settling the conversion date as past our time frame, and confirming my notion about kaolin. I also photographed a different car here in Charlottesville around the same time, Southern

I have noticed this curious item as well, but I'm not sure it existed when the cars were in revenue service. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Garth, Those were converted in the 60s for Kaolin clay service. Most of these cars had vents on the ends right below the roof. There were two series' of these particular cars 34000-34124 and

In the 1990's there was a whole string of ex-MDT ice reefers parked at the east end of the NYC (Conrail) Selkirk NY yard. I wonder what became of them? The set included a

George, I used Tru Color TCP 214 GN freight car red over a primer coat of Tamaya Fine Surface Primer. The Tru Color paint holds much better with a primer on resin. I had problems with paint coming

Thanks Bill. My first resin build many many years ago was a single door version. It was the original Westerfield hard, brittle resin castings. I had to glue some of the parts back together when

Very nice! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Richard Remiarz <rremiarz@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date: Friday, February 14, 2020 at 2:18

Great start on your stash Rich. I built the single 6-foot door version but had forgotten this version. Very well executed model Bill Welch

Nicely done Rich! What brand and color paint did you use? Thanks for posting George Toman

Looks like the lever is to engage the wheel that rides on top of the railroad wheel and is connected to the generator that runs the circulating fans in the ice bunkers. Rich Wilkens

Rich That’s. Great looking looking build. Paul

Just beautiful! Regards Johannes modeling the early post-war years up to about 1953 Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Februar 2020 um 21:18 Uhr Von: "Richard Remiarz" <rremiarz@...> An:

Well done Rich, finish looks good Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

After spending most of my time the last couple of years building structures, adding scenery, and weathering/upgrading some RTR freight cars, I have finally had some time to start building resin kits

I need (7) Accurail #122 brake sets to finish a production run of kits. Accurail sold me the rest of their inventory and the part is now discontinued. Please contact me off-list if you can help.

Charlie, just sent in my ressie. Thanks for making this known, would have missed otherwise! Bill Jolitz