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Fenton, fine looking cars. Running boards not always perfect on the prototype either. Thanks for sharing. Lester Breuer

A very nice pair of cars Fenton. Well done. I like that Black roof on the AF-3 . Well done. George Toman

An interesting comment Eric. Because dressed birds were commonly transported in leased ACF 40’ wood ice reefers from the late 20’s on. Many poultry packing houses in Iowa shipped dressed birds

Richard, according to John Golden about two weeks ago “Our old St. Louis RPM website died. The new one can be found at www.icgdecals.com/stlrpm “ Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

You said “team track.” It may be “poultry market.” J. Stephen Sandifer

Thanks Nelson. I keep trying to get better at this

I know the Georgia & Florida had some Alternate ARA single -sheathed boxcars with Dreadnaught ends form a Culotta RMC article. These were the 8000 series. Outside the Clinton, Oklahoma & Western

As I’ve learned in RPM clinics on poultry cars presented by Kristin Dummler and Kaylee Zheng, it was more efficient and successful to transport live birds to market than dressed fowl. Transporting

Nice work, Fenton. I like you cars, so I’m going to finally have to look at adding some Southeastern roads to my roster. At resent I have no SAL cars and only one ACL car. Nelson Moyer

Thanks for your quick replies. I saw the site about a week ago and couldn't remember how I got the address. Now that I see it I know that I got the address - right here!!! Richard

Fenton A good kit bashing job, did you drill holes for the Kadee roof walk? Last time I used one I cut of the fixings pegs and used canopy glue and got good results, I do like the slogan on the

Dave Parker wrote: A few more thoughts: Last, Andy I don't think one should have to count the boards on these SS cars. The MCB/ARA

Hello Steam Era Modeler: We are pleased to announce that Westerfield Models has several Kit Series available again. The #2900 Series has received an upgraded One-Piece Body, parts and new decal

Here are two cars just finished. The AF-4 was first and I didn't do a very good job on the Kadee roofwalk, the AF-3 was second and is much better almost excellent. I'm learning. The AF-3 was a RC 40

A few more thoughts: I can't say I am a huge fan of the Gould/Tichy USRA car. Yes, it's better than the many that have what is essentially horizontal V-groove siding. But the offsets between

The St Louis RPM recently changed their web address due to their host switching to a new domain (IIRC). Here’s the new link. http://www.icgdecals.com/stlrpm/ I do my best to keep an RPM event

Try this www.icgdecals.com/stlrpm Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Can anybody direct me to the website for this meet. I tried the RPM site and there wasn't anything there. I thought that the Meet would have its own site but if it does, I can't seem to find the

Claus it does appear to be poultry cars in the photos. And you are correct, strings of poultry cars did stream into large metro markets, esp those that served a Jewish population. Jewish dietary rules