A friend sent me this image showing these cars in the Raceland car shops during the rebuilding of these cars. It shows the curved roofs and upon close inspection, you can see a single embossed

Eric An excellent blog it’s a great weathering job well done. Paul Doggett

Eric looks as if it does have a few thousand miles on it. Nice weathering job and writeup on your blog. Lester Breuer

Eric Nice overview, not everyone thinks they have the skill sets for weathering and your approach makes for an easy ‘dip in the pool’. I remember back in the 1970’s using merely an airbrush to

The radial roof you posted looks very similar to the one used in the Westerfield MP 1901 and 1951 SS boxcar kits. I’d post an image as reference but out of town at the moment. -- Charlie Duckworth

A series of freight car weathering steps applied to one model are featured in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post. Weathering steps designbuildop.hansmanns.org Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

I assume you mean the USRA cars? Tony Thompson

Correction: I was just looking at a Funaro CPR 1932 AAR kit, not the minibox. From what i can tell, rightly or wrongly, both seem to have very similar radial roofs. The CPR prototype specs call

Hi Dave & Co. I feel your pain. I scratch-bashed a model of this car back in 2014. I agree that is a wonderfully unusual car that seems to break all the rules. I once told my friend it was the

I’m interested in those roofs too, as the Alton kitbash inspired me back in the spring. F&C offers a CPR mini-box with separate roof that might be converted to that. It has the same roof panel

I'm not looking to kitbash or scratch build these. My goal is to design this for 3d printing. I've done a dozen or so projects including this ACF welded hopper.

You are correct Brian, it was Steve - I worked with a Bob Kocsis at one time hence the mix-up. Steve mentioned he wished they had more volunteers. Drew Marshall still in South Jersey Get TypeApp for

That would be either Joe or Steve Kocsis. We have lots and lots already scanned. More photo collections are coming. Can’t put everything up at once. Thankfully, we have a good team. Brian J.

Bob Kocsis of the DicoveRY Museum on Lee Street in Buffalo, NY showed me the two rooms (so far) the NKPT&HS occupies on the second floor of the museum and explained they are dependant on volunteers to

Hi Dave, These look like rebuilt SS cars. SAL had a series of XM-1 cars, the B-5 series, I believe, that when rebuilt, showed the bottom of the side trusses in this fashion.

Victor (and others), I would be a bit careful about using boxcar ratios created from ORER listings as the exclusive method for creating a roster. You should be looking at loads arriving on your

Just finally saw the SP car the in question on their website. I built the Westerfield model last winter. Rapido is slow on the draw again.... Clark Propst Mason City Iowa

1937 AAR box cars and several orders of postwar 40 foot cars - Branchline  Kadee  Red Caboose  C&BT -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

Victor, Have you broken down the car designs and quantities from the Wabash ORER listings for your era? I did this for the 1926 B&O fleet to guide my modeling. B&O Freight Car fleet of

I model the Wabash in the early to mid 1950s and have come to realize that I don't have enough Wabash box cars. It would seem I need more 40 ft. steel cars that are accurate. I have a few rebuilds