Hi group, I am looking for the instructions and prototype data sheet for Sunshine Kit #46.17, Swift steel 40' reefer car, 1949 red and white decals. If you can help me, please contact me off list. I

Thats right Tony, by manifest I meant non professional lists of what would in actuality be waybills. Looking forward to your blog! Thanks, Bob

Robert G P wrote: Bob, you probably mean “waybills," not manifests. My blog contains lots of examples of both prototype and model waybills. Here are just two you might

Hello all, One of my hobbies within this hobby is creating manifest of freight trains where I imagine lading and origin/destination of the car. Is there anyone who can point me where I can find

Santa Fe Automobile/Furniture Boxcar 63228 (Fe-P) Photo from the San Francisco Public Library. Taken in 1940 at the Hills Brothers coffee warehouse in San Francisco. The Class Fe-P cars were built

I had missed (or forgotten about) this so thanks for the reminder Bill. Here is the link to the event:

I have just booked a room at the Marriot East in Indianapolis. I think! (On.line bookings are always a challenge.) In any event it looks like more rooms have opened up. Bill Pardie Sent from my

I wish they were larger format images. In any eve, the photos allow some zooming in - and it makes me ask a question: do the car ends of the two cars look different? To my eye, the corrugation

https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/CS.aspx?VP3=DamView&VBID=2A3BXZMRZM9D&SMLS=1&RW=1536&RH=656 A couple more of the same subject Fred Swanson

That last paragraph answers a longtime Q of mine. I wonder what cars were left down there, and if any survive today? Thanks again, Bob

Thank you guys so much for the extra info! I love the histories of the Vessels themselves! -Bob G.P

Ted Cullotta offers a kit for the Erie cars you mentioned and there's a photo of one of these cars with WIF markings in one of his books. Attached photos are from fallen flags.

So... you want to contact a vendor, but you don't want to use the method they have chosen for contact? It's hard to help those who can't help themselves.

I have upgraded a Walthers St. Louis-San Francisco (SL-SF) composite gondola 85374. If you are interested in the upgrade of this gondola including install of resin cast corrugated ends, wire grabs,

Bonsall Scale Car Shops seems to have disappeared off eBay. And I do not do Farce Book. Is there any other way to contact these folks? A regular website, or some other vendor? I'm in need of a

A 1940's or earlier Standard Tank Car 10,000 gal. single dome would be a nice addition to either resin kits or plastic kits or RTR. Would triple dome cars be used for delivering gasoline to smaller

Bob, Nice find. 126439 was built by American Car & Foundry, and if the car behind is 126158, it was too. But I can't quite make out if the third digit is a 6 or an 8. If the latter, 128158 was

All speculative, nevertheless. ;-) -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Tim, You might have missed the subtlety, but I was saying that the car may well have been re-stenciled with the OLD reweigh date when it was repainted with the emblem. Thus the weathering on them

I agree with you Bruce that we cannot assume the emblem was added in 6-47 but the practically identical amount of weathering on the emblem when compared to the reporting marks