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

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 01:10 PM, D. Scott Chatfield wrote: Interesting view of a yard in California in 1959. Note that Brock's Law is in force.... Have been systematically scanning my slides going

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

Nelson, Doug Harding can answer this question better. Morrell did daily (except Sunday) slaughter of cattle, hogs and sheep. And besides hanging sides of such, they also had packaged

I see the roof of Levenson Steel poking up. I worked there for a few weeks in the early 60s painting steel for I-7 in eastern Ohio. I was transferred there following 2months doing the same job at

Hi Nelson, Your are correct in that that one plant could not produce 50 loads in one day. Keep in mind the Milwaukee, RI, and Wabash also got a few loads of meat in Ottumwa. Off course the plant also

Interesting view of a yard in California in 1959. Note that Brock's Law is in

Thanks, Bill. I’ve been collecting meat reefers to model these trains, but I only have one Morrell reefer so far. It was built from the old Sunshine kit. It sounds like I need at least nine more for

Thanks for the LCL reefer info. In the next week I am going to take some time to do a bit of “research” with regard to if an LCL reefer service was operated on the Gridley Branch — ATSF

There is also the box near the rear truck. Perhaps a heater, and the pipes on top are vents? Steve Kay