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Historian and modeler Dick Harley of Laguna Beach, CA,has a number of excellent PFE refrigerator car photos on his website (https://harley-trains.smugmug.com/)as well as other railroad-related items.

Gary Ray asked: "My friend is doing a clinic on US military cars on German railways after WWII. He has models and photos of the 50’ USATC Long Flat (US Specs) but would like to find a dimensional

Do you have 3D surfacing capabilities? Dennis Storzek

I work only in TT scale (yeah, it's alive, barely, but friends of the scale are attempting a revival), one of my CAD/CAM projects at the moment is a transition era refrigerator car. Perhaps someone

Hi, My friend is doing a clinic on US military cars on German railways after WWII. He has models and photos of the 50’ USATC Long Flat (US Specs) but would like to find a dimensional drawing.

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I should also have asked about the car numbers in the photos. NYC had many series of these cars, not always the same. Todd Sullivan Liverpool, NY

Bill, What era are the photos? I photographed some NYC 'USRA' survivors in company service in the early 1980s at Selkirk Yard, and built a Westerfield kit using those photos and some builders photos

Hi George, The black roof is correct for SAL as-delivered 1937 cars (SAL B-8 and B-9 class). If you are modeling a car repainted in the mid/late 1950s, the roof should probably be freight car brown.

gsc3@... [STMFC] wrote: George, From the Pullman-Standard bills of materials for lot numbers 5768, 5803 (double doors), 5804, and 5806, the following paint identical specs were used for all four

C&O (Viking), C&EI (Viking), W&LE (non-standard car)

---In STMFC@..., <tony@...> wrote : Certainly by World War I, and I believe earlier, stencils were used, then painters filled in the "stencil gaps" by hand. =================== It was also

Ted Culotta's STEAM ERA FREIGHT CARS REERENCE MANUAL VOLUME 1 has several good shots of the NYC USTA design steel boxcars. The cars in several shots have been converted to an AB brake system. In

Tony: Based on my rather small corner in space (the NE) and time (the mid-1930s), I am tempted to say "varied from painter to painter". I dunno, maybe the B&M painters were really enjoying their

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Dave Parker wrote: Good point, Dave, and I agree. I only wanted to observe that "non-stencil" letters were not hand-painted entirely. I would add that leaving stencil gaps varies from railroad

I've opened a SAL 1937 car kit and found a black cement roof. I think this must have been swapped with another kit but can't determine which kit. Besides Santa Fe, NKP and perhaps Erie can anyone

I would concur with Tony, but would have said 'then some painters filled in the "stencil gaps" by hand.' I have more than a couple of pre-WWII photos where the stencil gaps can be clearly seen in

Lou Van Winkle wrote: Certainly by World War I, and I believe earlier, stencils were used, then painters filled in the "stencil gaps" by hand. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,