Nelson, please yield to the temptation to buy the car. You like it. There have been many (I lost count) emails giving you rationale with various levels of a) plausibility and b) fairly hard

Just bought a Tichy Georgia rebuilt box car kit. The roof looks like a XLA? I have a Speedwitch model that has a Hutchins roof. Photos I have show, maybe, a radial roof?, what could be the Hutchins

Interesting antidote, Dick, but I don’t model the M&StL. The Q was primarily an East-West road with terminuses in Denver and Kansas City for Everywhere West. Chicago to Kansas City and interchange

Unless somebody can provide justification as to why this car would pass through Burlington, either between Chicago and Omaha or between St. Louis and Minneapolis, I can’t justify adding it to my

It’s interesting that the streaking/fading down from the lettering is rust colored - not white. I just weathered a batch of cars with a white fade last week. If I’d seen this photo when Garth

Fresh stencils all around that seem to coincide with the 7-25 reweigh stencil. The car should have been weighed again no later than summer of 1927, but I'm guessing the photo date is very close to

Cheap electricity came to the Portland area with the Bonneville Power Administration in the 30's. That might be what stimulated the market for electric stoves. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Photo: NYC Boxcar 161603 A circa 1931 photo from Ball State University: https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/swift/id/1166/rec/6 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: NKP Boxcar 28676 With Banner A circa 1926-1930 photo (reweigh date 7-25) from Ball State University: https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/swift/id/1067 This photo can be enlarged quite a

Tim O'Connor wrote: Of course. But even if segments of such routes are approved, the railroad can refuse them because there is a reverse haul in the example you constructed. I certainly did

Good to hear from you, Michael, and thanks for the confirmation on interchange in Ft. Madison. Nelson Moyer

Nelson, just a quick note: In your 1953 timeframe, the ATSF regularly interchanged with the CB&Q in Fort Madison in town just east of the two depots. Fort Madison's Shopton yard would send one of

-- Michael Gross Pasadena, CA

Yes Eric it affected the Southern SU boxcars and vent cars as well, Although some of the pulp wood racks made from SU boxcars were upgraded with AB brake systems Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye

Eric Hansmann wrote: "Here are some L&N ventilated boxcar quantities to fill in a few years in between Ray’s info. 1943 – 2,096 cars 1951 – 992 cars 1953 – 37 cars I suspect the pending K

Yes, really. I can think of unworkable routes without even trying. I'm shipping from Chicago to Buffalo. PRR Chicago to Pittsburgh. B&O Pittsburgh to

Here are some L&N ventilated boxcar quantities to fill in a few years in between Ray’s info. 1943 – 2,096 cars 1951 – 992 cars 1953 – 37 cars I suspect the pending K brake ban of

Hi John- Sorry! I really stepped in it with this one. 85450-85949, built by ACF in 1927, did not have end doors. They did have Dreadnaught ends and Camel doors. I will have to go back and update the

Jeez, guys, just order it from McMaster Carr. Nice clean flat sheets in a variety of sizes and thicknesses. https://www.mcmaster.com/lead-sheets They also have lead shot and lead wool... search those

Criminy, just Google it: "states where lead tire weights are banned" More info than you can possibly need. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA