Greg, Thanks for confirming my guess. I changed the IH in my email to conform to what UP painted on the car. Somebody made a mistake LOL. Tony On Sunday, May 6, 2018 10:44 AM, greg kennelly

This is a link to a very informative article by Steve Sandifer and Donald Lake. Other contributors were Keith Jordan, Mike Blaszak, Charles Schultz, Doug Harding, Clark Probst, Linda Sand, George

Good morning all, Tony asked "Would anyone know the number series of the UP's B-50-17 cars." Here is a service abstract for the B-50-17 series compiled from UP records and the ORER. Eric

Folks, Some of you noticed that the messages from the group are now coming frommain@RealSTMFC.groups.io instead ofRealSTMFC@groups.io. One the new features of

Tony, The 1-1-53 ORER shows the same series, 180000 - 182346, with 2261 cars.  The IH shows as 9'-4" and the capacity is listed as 3466 CU FT compared to 3463 as stencilled on this car.  My best

I suspect that everyone who has responded to this question is correct in their own way. I believe that most, if not all, stock cars found their interiors painted in the same color as their outsides

Jon & Eric, I checked on the group’s home page. It appears that a subgroup was created. And, that is likely what caused the change in the email address for the “Main” group. But, only our

On 5/5/2018 6:30 PM, Eric Hansmann wrote: Same here. All/many of the emails are coming as main@RealSTMFC.groups.io????? -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in

Hello Garth, aside of many times being the only way, scratch building often is a reasonable way, too - means better than kit bashing. My friend Bernhard currrently is scratchbuilding a Canda truss

>>Does anyone make a good 40' truss rod flat car in HO? >>Richard Townsend Nobody makes a good trussrod anything these days except in resin, and none of those manufacturers have made a trussroded

Would anyone know the number series of the UP's B-50-17 cars. It looks like the number starts with a 1, then possibly an 8. The third digit is too faded to make out but it appears that the last three

Richard, La Belle offers a two-for kit that builds two slightly different cars. Ulrich used to make one, but it hasn't been produced in many years. I recently saw a mint kit

Bill, you are quite welcome but the real thanks should go to Gary B. for allowing me to share them with our group. From his own words "He put them out there to inspire modeling and interesting

Mine has a wide slot too. I usually just hold the blade tight against one side of the slot when making cuts. I've toyed with splicing in some styrene in the slot to make it narrower but havent needed

If I just HAVE to have that image on the screen, I use the “Snipping Tool” that comes in Windows 10. I can then save that image as whatever I want. It does allow me to crop the image to my

Steve Sandifer can say more, but my understanding is that lime was a stopgap. Steam was more effective and essentially standard. Tony Thompson

FWIW, I am led to believe the stock cars were disinfected with lime between runs and so typical stock cars typically had white residue inside that sometimes bled outside. MBC Michael Carson

The oxide color suggests that it was painted when new, but never repainted. The paint loss over time is apparently from repeated steam cleaning until the majority of the slats are bare weathered wood.

I took this picture last year during the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society convention in Tulsa. This is the ONLY stock car interior I have ever seen (unless I was a bull in a previous