Pierre, The photos in Gene Green’s reefer book show the cars as orange –light orange, not orange orange – if you know what I mean? Roofs and ends werebox car red, except of the later

Is he still out there with Cessna Manufacturing? Al Kresse

So would I. Al Kresse

Help received and contact made successfully. Thank you! Bill Welch

I would like to try to connect w/James Kincaid about General Steel Casting Bulkhead flats. Not sure if he is a member here. Perhaps someone here knows how to contact him and could provide him with my

FYI Intermountain makes a postwar welded AAR underframe (not the entirefloor). The AAR and PS designs are noticeably different but it really onlymatters if you hold them upside down... :-) Tim

Bill, the 516 is a tabbed-sill, 8 foot door, 50 foot PS-1. The 50 foot double door WP PS-1 cars are just a re-run - new carnumber. Sadly, Kadee hasn't done any of the WP "bold yellow" repaintsyet, as

Walter, my bottle is every bit of 10 years old and might be 20 years old....worked fine last year. Craig Zeni Cary NC

Tim, IIRC, the Kurtz Kraft/Cannonball PS-1 is too wide. Back in the old DING someplace there was a photo comparing the ends to other early PS-1 models, but I am unable to locate

I have a (bad?) habit of buyer models when they are released, and sometimes they languish in my unbuilt kit stash so I’m cleaning out a few more kits I probably won’t get around to building. I

Bill Welch wrote: "Thanks Ben, that means the Accurail u/f would[n't] be good for this either, correct?" Actually, the McKean underframe didn't carry over. The Accurail models use the same underframe

The car Kadee is showing is a 40-foot car numbered #516, although as I look at their photo a second time maybe it is a 50-foot car. BTW, Kadee is doing WP DD 50-footer set for a September 2017 release

Thanks Ben, that means the Accurail u/f would be good for this either, correct? Bill Welch

Here's a link to a web site with some information including freight cars. http://tidewatersouthernrailway.org/ Bob Witt

Dave, How are those statements refuted? Yes, some newsprint was made in NewEngland. But MILLIONS of tons were required for the USA, and more than 80% of USpaper production was other than newsprint -

Bill Welch asked: "Didn't [the Kurtz-Kraft] kit become a Cannonball Car offering?" Correct. It's still available from Model RR Warehouse, though you'll have to dig through their website to find

Bill Welch wrote: "Based on research of a friend I have decided to use a PS-1 underframe for the Monon #37 model I am building. Anyone have an InterMountain PS-1 underframe they want to part with.

After looking at these

Tim: You misunderstand the nature of my surprise. Of course those two railroads carried a large quantity of forest products and their derivatives. What I did not expect was that the ICC data would

I'm surprised anyone would be surprised by the amount of paper andpulp handled by the BAR as well as the MEC - pulpwood, chips, lumber, paperand pulp were mainstays of both roads. Potatoes were