you should all know that Ted Culotta has brought out a much better HO chalk mark set than this new one by Microscale. In addition to that Protocraft Decals has produced Ted’s in O scale norm

Friends, These ongoing graffito are interesting. While it wasn't in our period, I remember seeing a couple of cars which were inscribed by someone calling himself "Mahatma Indeedi",

I agree these are 'pictorial' graffiti, which was relatively rare. Also,bright white is ok for a brand new chalk mark, but I prefer the light gray color usedby Sunshine. A good thing about Microscale

Recently discovered: (1) I need 1 or 2 dry ice reefers; (2) Sunshine made four versions in kit form; and (3) they're very hard to find. Anybody have a couple of built or unbuilt kits in any version

Gee, and here I thought the built date of 3-44 and the shop date of6-59 would have been sufficient to make this all obvious. I was not aware ofany standard offset side cars built during the War

According to a 1970 NSRy roster, these cars were built in 1944. I haven't found out by who, or what years the Norfolk Southern leased them. Hopefully, the build date may provide some clue as to the

David: Gulf did take a few hundred STC cars around 1920, as did RPX (Shell) and SHPX. Do you know which car numbers Gulf used on cars purchased from Standard Tank Car? I have quite a few photos of

Maybe. Could just as easily have started as a regular offset-side car. NS 9200-9399 were secondhand leased cars (probably from USRE, and probably rebuilt by them). David Thompson

North American's tank cars were mostly Pressed Steel cars built in the late 1920s. GATX did have some STC tanks from the various smaller fleets they bought up over the years, primarily the ~3000 STCX

Past and Present Prototype Rails Attendees, please don't forget to send me your two favorite Cocoa Beach dining establishment suggestions as per my guidelines in my December 1 message. I have Nine

R. L. Kennedy wrote a good article on chalk markings. Hereis the link to his article, "Chalk It Up": http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR/general/chalk_it_up.htm Tony Thompson had two

I agree with Michael about using Prismacolor pencils. Theygive good results. Here are some model examples (not mine):

There's a major manufacturer that's going to release a car with factory applied chalk markings very soon. Todd Horton

While I am delighted to see Microscale has added chalk marks, my first impression is that too many of them lean toward chalk graffiti drawings, many of which are too large for anything but a box car

Don if you click on the link Bill provided you would see that Microscale has printed with a blue backing paper. Very easy to see the decals on their website. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

---In STMFC@..., <fgexbill@...> wrote : Microscale decals has added a sheet of Chalk Marks in three scale to their line: Microscale Decals: Boxcar Chalk Makrings Microscale Decals: Boxcar

Ed Hawkins hawk0621@... [STMFC] wrote: Oops, numbers should be 82500-82899. Ed Hawkins

Tim O'Connor timboconnor@... [STMFC] wrote: Tim, As is often the case, the answer is "it depends." Like the discussion previously on the 3,500 cu. ft. CH-41 covered hoppers, ACF''s CH-29 cars

TimO, MD&S was an SAL subsidiary, so this car was probably delivered along with one of SAL's many similar 1958 cu. ft. orders. I can check my rosters; there may also be a mention in RP Cyc. MD&S

Ed With the addition of these 550 cars and 2 owners (plus latermergers, repaints, transfers), hopefully INTERMOUNTAIN can be persuaded to do this version of the CH-29, as well as the version they've