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

For those of you who have placed a Resin Car Works order orplan to place one soon, we have posted an update on the RCW blog. We appreciateyour patience as we work to fulfill the orders that have

Garth Groff sarahsan@... [STMFC] wrote: STMFC, For those interested, the 50 MD&S covered hopper cars in question were built by ACF as lot number 4948C with the builder photo of MD&S 6000

Microscale decals has added a sheet of Chalk Marks in three scale to their line: Microscale Decals: Boxcar Chalk Makrings Microscale Decals: Boxcar Chalk Makrings Quick

Dennis, How ironic that I just found a floor plan sketch (Chf Engineer's x-drawings (8.5 x 11) to support AFE's) of the third pump house on the branchline. It was being replaced with a new one with

---In STMFC@..., <timboconnor@...> wrote : attn: Bill Welch ! Talk about rare and obscure Y'all shortlines, this one might take thecake! Only found one ORER entry for 1955, before this car was built,

Interesting. That could be come a decal project Hubert Mask MAsk Island Decals Inc. On Dec 1, 2016, at 11:24 PM, Tim O'Connor timboconnor@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:

Fellow modelers, I've just added a number of new items on the Yarmouth Model Works website. You can see them on the website proper or on my

Google can be your friend Tim: HawkinsRails.net - Macon, Dublin & Savannah HawkinsRails.net - Macon, Dublin & Savannah hawkinsrails.net / shortlines/ mds Macon,

Bill, Tim and Y'all, My 1958 ORER lists 27 cars in MD&S series 6000-6049. They are found as a sub-listing at the end of the Seaboard roster. One might expect to find 23 more cars with

My next sale is of miscellaneous resin kits plus one plastic kit. you can see this week's list at sunshinekits.com/sale5.pdf. Next week probably Westerfield kits. I'm, slowly downsizing. Jim

Since this car was originally built in 1944, could it have been a War Emergency that has been extensively rebuilt with new sides? The hopper bays and slope sheets and other details seem consistent

attn: Bill Welch ! Talk about rare and obscure Y'all shortlines, this one might take thecake! Only found one ORER entry for 1955, before this car was built, and nolisting by

Steve, Thanks very much for your informative reply. It sounds like the SC&F cars aren't good choices for the UTLX fleet. Any idea whether the cars represented by kits 2002 and 2005 would be more

To be precise mine is "40-foot High-Side Gons of the South." Freight Cars Rule Bill Welch

Carmen use a device called a Time-O-Test that replicates air brake applications and releases for air brake testing a cut of cars. It's connected between the ground air supply and the car air brake

Kit 2003 could be used for UTLX. They purchased 200 carsfrom Standard (Tank) Car company in 1917 numbered 7850-8049. At some pointin the future, probably by 1930, or so, they would be renumbered

Tangent's latest release has motivated me to take a look at my tank car roster. In paging through the archives, I wasn't able to pin down prototypes for many of SC&F's eight current offerings. They