Paul, I have just began the building of TEN of those beautiful kits. I have to agree that they are wonderful. A car that us SP/TNO fans have longed for a long time. Charles Etheredge Austin, Texas

Nice work from Ted York on those ballast cars… Michael Gross Pasadena, CA Facebook.com/ActorMichaelGross

Check out what Ted York did: http://www.tedyorkphotography.com/modeling-tips J. Stephen Sandifer

I have just finished an Owl mountain SP F50-10 flat probably one of the best kits I have had the pleasure of building. Paul Doggett UK 🇬🇧 ---------- [Non-text portions of this message have

Not sure. It was from Ray Breyer's list but he was speaking to orginating I believe. George Courtney

I think it would be a very large share - 75% or more. Ripe strawberries were a seasonal cargo from Louisiana (traveling in express reefers) Probably other seasonal fruits in there too - melons,

Just a quick look at your 1925 showed around 31,000 fresh fruit loads for the Illnois Central. Anyone know how much bannas made up that number? Just curious. George Courtney

And now again to the group (sorry Tim for the dounle post): Tim, Ben, Bill, MANY thanks for your quick and complete help! Now I have everything I need :-) Many greetings Johannes Gesendet:

Johannes Markwart asked: "I have two HO ATLAS 70ton hart ballast cars I want to complete before giving them away for weathering. I have searched and found a lot of postings mentioning their main flaws

Hello friends, at first I would like to thank everyone who did reply to my GN hopper/ gondola question several weeks ago. I have two H0 ATLAS 70ton hart ballast cars I want to complete before giving

A prototypeFOOBIE !! Tim O'

I just clicked the "send" button once. I don't know why this message is being sent endlessly. I am sorry for the waste of space and time. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Bob I’m advised by Hol Wagner that this car was actually a FW&D car which wasborrowed for the Fair and relettered, as it was the oldest looking boxcar --without steel ends -- that the

Interesting David, Earlier I had looked at previous data I had gathered and surmised that if there is an overriding reason to support reefers on the layout, potato shipments looked to me to be the

Beautiful color images! Funny it looks like B&O is the only onewho didn't bother to thoroughly wash their box car before putting it on display. :-) Tim O'Connor

Hello- About 20 years ago I offered various resin freight car kits in HO. Many were for the Great Northern. I have not made these kits for 2 decades now. One of the GN cars was a 40' stock car which

A CB&Q box car at the 1949 Chicago Railroad

Have the Bowser 70-ton Hoppers been retooled since their introduction? Hard to believe they could be as well done as the InterMountain version, one of the few built up models I have purchased. Bill

Ray, I pulled the following information from your post back on Sept 02. ". ORIGINATING LOADS, 1925 ROAD POTATOES C&NW 8744 CMO 2513 CGW 139 MILW 2794 GB&W 2310 CB&Q 4391 C&A

I think the Bowser covered hoppers are mucho improved over their old ones. I just got 5 ACF covered hoppers and am in the process of assembling them. Besides the grab irons, I also noticed that the