Tony Long commented, "That first car is a CRI&P car that might be from Peninsular Car Co. with CRI&P designed swing motion trucks. Notice that telegraph poles are painted white on the upper and not

Not intending to be rude. go to the search box on Groups.io ad start with "Gilbert-Nelson" You can branch off from there. Brian Carlson

That is much more healpful, I have followed this group for many years and I would have only known to search for routing. But I'll look at the other listings as well.

Try Crystal Clear sold in Walmart and Lumber supply. Decal carrier is Lacquer and an over coat of new lacquer should un-yellow the decal. If it is a Walthers it is usually the paper.

Rick, The thing is, it has been discussed repeatedly so it is all over the archives… not in just one location. For starters, if you want to try to find the information, search “Boxcar

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 08:47 AM, Brian Carlson wrote: Boxcars were quite free roaming as has been discussed on the list for years. I would agree with that statement if you added the caveat "From WWII

I think it is more helpful to guide new members to the discussion rather than be so rude as to tell someone it was discussed years ago, and not tell them where!

A B&M boxcar in Seattle or LA doesn’t mean the contents were from an industry on the B&M. Boxcars were quite free roaming as has been discussed on the list for years. Brian J. Carlson

I've seen pics of BAR and B&M boxcars in LA and Seattle. Stuck in my mind as always wondered what would be shipped from corner to corner of the US like that. They may have been WWII photos, but can't

Brent: Thanks for the feedback! To post or email a drawing, I convert the hi res tiff we make in the scan to a jpg to limit its size. If you cannot read the small dimensions on the jpg version, let me

A buddy of mine built the car from ACL blueprints, so I assume he was correct in building the screen door on the left. The attached photo also shows it on the left, with the solid door closing the

Tim and Friends, Actually there were two different underframes applied to WP 1952 and 1953, apparently for evaluation. I have the general arrangement drawing in the book FREIGHT CAR DIAGRAMS, BOXCAR,

Thanks Ike ! Brent Dr. J. Brent Greer

Tim, This is an old vintage plastic modeler trick. Once again we learn from our military brothers. Rob Manley "Better modeling through personal embarrassment"

I think a better way to phrase the question would be: "What determined whether the solid door was on the right or left?" Examples of both exist, but I've never paid enough attention to determine

Thank you, Jeff. That is more information than I had before and it narrows it down. The instructions have only one photo of a 49500 series car and the handbrake is in profile. Clearly not Ajax but

Ray Hutchison asked: "Looking at a number of early photographs, what would determine whether the door would open to the right (which we think of as being correct) or

very nice model. looking at a number of early photographs, what would determine whether the door would open to the right (which we think of as being correct) or opened to the left as shown here)?

Here's a shot on my 2-rail O-Scale RR of an ACL watermelon car. davo in Orlando

That didn't work, I'll try to upload the drawing here... Ike