A fine build. And I really like your track scenery too! (Sidings with weeds, I love that.) :-) On 9/20/2022 11:10 AM, Charlie Duckworth via groups.io wrote:

Charlie, My bet would be dirt over B&O freight car paint for that roof. Note the roof under the longitudinal running board. And btw, this is one of the arguments for "getting it right" with respect to

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Charlie Another stunning model. Paul Doggett

Ken, There are no specifics within the text or drawings, but I would venture to say that that latitudinal running boards would not have been required on a tarred canvas roof. Regards, Guy

Guy What if the caboose roof was tarred canvas? -- Ken Adams Covid Variants may come and go but I choose to still live mostly in splendid Shelter In Place solitude Location: About half way up Walnut

Good looking car Charlie. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Howe Truss New Orleans, Texas & Mexico single sheathed boxcar from Sunshine Models. I came across a photo of a MP SS boxcar in the color guide that had an unpainted galvanized roof with the seam caps

Thanks Ray, I have an email into Jim Singer as I want to buy a copy of this photo.-- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Thanks for that image, Jason. It's the same car type: note the Pressed Steel fishbelly side sills. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

Near as I can make out, the car number is 67394. And it's definitely got a radial roof. I'vce attached as clean a copy of the image as I can grab. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

Ray and all, I can't make out the car number in that photo but I do know that GM&O numbered all of their MoW and related non-revenue equipment into 66000 and 67000 series numbers. If you

I agree Ray but it’s the only photo I’ve seen of a broadside of this modified type car. Let me know your thoughts on the roof please. Radial or flat?

Late... but relevant. I took the I mage Claus posted and tried to correct the color. I was able to get a tiny bit of blue into the sky w/o losing the BCR, corrected much of the contrast problems,

1967 repack date and absolutely no dimensional data. This is a MOW car. In revenue service, none got GM&O paint, and none survived past 1954. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

And in GM&O lettering. Didn’t think any of them made it that way

Awesome Owen. Thank you so much. Fenton

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