Tim, Remember Byron Rose's wonderful 53' flatcar? It was my second resin kit, and I did the whole underframe faithfully, except for the retainer line. I just couldn't fit the piping

Tim O'Connor wrote: And Richard wasn't the only one . . . I have huge admiration for Jack's underframe modeling, but it's one of those things that I have simply put to one side, so that other

Ah! Andy, at this point in my life I'm not sweating stringers -- Eversince IMWX screwed up the stringers on their otherwise perfect 1937 AAR boxcar (and copied by other manufacturers!) I decided that

Rob, I have sent you the data off site. Eric Eric Lombard Homewood, IL rericlombard at gmail.com elombard at uchicago.edu

You could use the F&C PRR FM flatcar with the AMB wood deck it builds into a very nice car very easy. Aaron Heaney

Hi Rob, The July 1935 ORER shows 3430 cars with hopper doors in series 230000 - 234999 and 50 cars without hopper doors in series 234000 - 234599 - the number of cars in this group is shown as an

Gentlemen, per the Detailing Chronology on page 58 of RPCyc #1, the underframes on early PS-1s built through 1949 had AAR welded underframes with two stringers; the Pullman-Standard proprietary

Andy, In an old message from the freightcars group, Tim O'Connor noted that the 1948 C&O PS-1s had AAR-style underframes. These would have been C&O 15000-15999, with 6' doors. Perhaps

"I have an ORER vacuum from 1932 to April 1938" Rob, I can give you the data for one issue each for 1933, '34, '35, '36, 37. I'm not at home at the moment and will do so later today if someone else

Rob: OFF-LIST, I sent you an excerpt from my 1935 ORER about 45 minutes ago. But, in the past I have experienced a glitch or two with Yahoo mail when switching from group to private. Please advise

Westerfield has 1935: https://id18538.securedata.net/westerfieldmodels.com/merchantmanager/product_info.php?products_id=1013 Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

Rob Kirkham wrote: Presumably on account of the Depression, the ORER greatly reduced frequency from about 1932 until 1937, barely an issue a year. And though it had been monthly before 1932, it

Hi there – I’m trying to complete a history on these cars. Unfortunately, right around the interesting time when the railway was starting to re-build the cars (without grain hoppers at the side

Demetre Argiro asked: "I want to build a flat car with a load of steel plates on it. I have everything but the car. What I want is an approximately 40' car with a real wood deck; something suitable

​Sunshine had quite a few interesting flat cars of this size, but of course, the problem is availability now that they are out of business. I tried to stick to cars currently in production, or

Bruce beat me to the Tichy kit recommendation, but you can add the Sunshine kit of the Santa Fe Ft-G. If you want a longer flat, you have a lot of additional choices for the post WWII time frame.

These were probably loaded cars supplying the cement necessary for the production of concrete blocks. The different roads of the cars could be explained by the block company shopping for best price,

I offer the chad boas flat car that gives you three options of decals to purchase for the Southern railway. One of which is black as delivered Visit my web mask island decals.com Hubert Mask.

I would like a recommendation for an online reference site where I can punch in a car and get data that includes its build date. as an example, I would like to know about PHMX-4409, a car I have

Garth: By far the most efficient way to get a bead on the history of a reporting mark is through Ian Cranstone’s exhaustive tabulation which can be found here: http://www.nakina.net/index.html In