Brian Carlson asks: Bob. I’m working on one of these. What paint color did you use? Uh oh -- a COLOR question! First, let's skip all the usual prototype color

Photo: Ballast Cleaning Train With PRR Hopper Cars A photo from the Historic Pittsburgh website: https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A200905.233.HF/viewer Scroll on the photo to

 Hi Garth and List Members, If you closely examine the image you sent out to us all, one can easily see that the stake pockets near the center of the car have been modified for some specialized

This is the first time I have heard strawboard, it makes sense that the Cherry paper mill in Tama, Iowa, was making that product . In the late 40 the school toured the plant. They had many bales of

Claus and Jim, Thanks for your help with the P&LE flat car ID. One problem though. The 1941 car has only seven stake pockets, while the car in the earlier photo Jim presented has 12. A rebuild is a

Thanks, Tim! Great idea. I think you can guess I am somewhat obsessed with these cars. Elden Gatwood

Guys; Here’s a good photo of 6889 in that group of five. The wheel car is behind it. What an incredibly cool car! Elden Gatwood

John, I have extra IMWX - Red Caboose roofs you can have. On 7/12/2020 11:05 AM, golden1014 via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Garth, I think this is the P&LE 30' flat in the background. https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A8223.409.RR There was an article about this car in the American Engineer and

Elwood I am under the impression these cars can be modeled with the Proto 2000 models with replacement Viking roofs. That's what I did, anyway. The D&TS photo appears

C&O had 3000 similar skirted quads built in 1916-7, but theirs were all "rebodied" into USRA triples and offset quads a decade later. SSC built another batch of these for several industrial users in

If that group is ex-WM, then the ORER dimensions given are very wrong. If the ORER is correct, then the cars are not ex-WM. 70-ton trucks on a hopper that size are very uncommon.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:21 AM, Donald B. Valentine wrote: Interesting trucks of a design I don’t recall ever seeing before. Wonder what the height of the deck above the rail is for tis IC flat

 Hi Garth, Looking into my 12-1930 ORER, I see that P&LE has very few flat cars - in fact, this is all I could find: P&LE 6883-6884 30ft length 150,000 lb (2 cars total) P&LE 6885-6889 36ft

Good looking build and nothing better than making lemonade out of lemons. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Bob. I’m working on one of these. Waist paint color did you use? Brian J. Carlson

Upon opening the second of my two 1937 AAR IMWX boxcar kits from my deep stash, I discovered not much more than a carbody. No roof, no detail sprue. Then came the recall – the kit was a parts donor

Friends, Did anyone else notice what appears to be a rather short P&LE flat car on the hill just above the gondola? I was able to pull the attached photo off the web site. Can't read the number. Yours

Thanks Eric - I’ll take a look through. It might fill out some of more details on strawboard in general. The ownership part is turning out to be a real rabbit hole - mainly thanks to Barber being

Thanks, Tony. Going out to airbrush now. Gary Ray