Photos: Dold Meat Reefers JDPX 721 & JDPX 718 (Undated) Photos courtesy of the New York Central System Historical

Photo: ERDX/A&P Tea Co. Reefer 12000 Photo courtesy of the New York Central System Historical Society: https://nycshs.omeka.net/items/show/126375 ERDX reporting mark assigned to Eastern

Photo: Swift Reefer SRLX 7116 (Undated) Photo courtesy of the New York Central System Historical Society: https://nycshs.omeka.net/items/show/118303 Wood sheathed meat reefer. Bob

Photo: Armour Reefer 3039 (Undated) Photo courtesy of the New York Central System Historical Society: https://nycshs.omeka.net/items/show/118243 The reporting mark appears to be MARX, which was

I'll tell you what it lacks, tack. I thought tacky glue would remain tacky after it dried, like the glue on scotch tape. No such luck though and it's slow to dry like all water-based adhesives.

Caboose Stop Hobbies in Cedar Falls Iowa has this collection of resin kits. I was there today and took photos of them for posting. They host a Zoom Wednesday (today) evening. She will feature these

The Westerfiel;d kits make up into nice cars. Need we more? Bill Pardie

Tim, I notice that the PRR car has the holder on the right side, relative to the 'A' end. Was that common or just a PRR thing? Scott Haycock Modeling Tarheel country in

Forgot the image! Scott Haycock Modeling Tarheel country in the Land of Enchantment

Good morning, Here is a grab of the defect card holder I'm modeling. The car is a P-S built C&NW Emergency box car. I'm thinking of making a fixture to make these from some 0.0015

Chuck Comparing with photos, the Champ decals roadname and some other lettering is clearly better, but neither one of them is 100% accurate. The cars were 70 ton

Tim, that PRR car has a very interesting sill, what was it rebuilt from? And that NYC car, at first glance I thought it was a PS, but no! Brian

Tim, I went back to look at my notes and I used Champ HC-70 “ Pennsylvania RR Covered Hopper” on the second H30 built (254268) with possibly some savaging from other sets to complete the data

And in many cases, the "lower left corner" defect card holder was just a very small tack board. I think the tube style ended up being the most popular (i.e. cheapest) and the

Scott, For 40’ steel box cars, starting in the mid-to-late 1930s Defect Card Holders of the various steel specialty types (Apex, Motor Wheel T-Z, Cheeper, Real, and a few others less common) were

exactly. which car has which decals? -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Pretty sure Tim know that. I think he was pointing out there were subtle differences in the typefaces on chucks models which were both is CK. I assume it was different decals. Brian J. Carlson --

Yes, there were three different styles of lettering in PRR years, with variations within. As-built: Circle Keystone, then 1954+ Shadow Keystone; 1960+ Plain Keystone. Most manufacturers have

Thank you, sir. I did not know that.

Rapido offers undec kits as well, which is where this part of the thread started.😉 Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Gary Roe