Bruce,The data I have for roads in Northern NewEngland have more CN cars in consists than Pennsy cars.ArmandPremo

Bruce, In the post war era, the US roads were notorious for being tardy in returning Canadian cars. Usually because they were in better shape. There's lots of letters in the archives of CN and CP

Armand, Canadian cars were specifically excluded from the analysis because they are NOT free rollers. Because of customs rules, they have to be specifically carrying cargo to the US. Once here, they

Go to the equipment pages of the NPRHA website http://www.nprha.org/Pages/Equipment.aspx Select freight cars and go to the second page of box car diagrams (scroll down to the bottom of the first box

I was looking this morning and the Microscale Placard set 87-975 includes an "Inflammable" with the word in all caps in red. The contributor was someone named Dr. Richard H. Hendrickson. Bill Welch

I still have one or two Westrail kits, and though Richard did not specifically include Duryea underframes in these kits, he included simple instructions and line drawings to simulate the

And, I believe Micro-Scale has appropriate decals in one of their placard sets. Jim Kubrick Morgantown WV On Friday, July 24, 2015 8:13 PM, "Guy Wilber guycwilber@... [STMFC]" wrote:

ok...thanks very much for the info...(I didn't know about speedwitch and just now placed an order)

bill stanton wrote: In the transition era, the AAR definition of an automobile car was a double-door box car. All box cars, even automobile cars, were "X" types. So even when a railroad bought

The article shows 40’ cars. Don Burn

I thought the automobile cars were generally 50 ft and did not have an XM car type...

Bill, There is an excellent article on 1937 AAR based automobile cars in Prototype Railroad Modeling Volume 2 http://speedwitchmedia.com/product/prototype-railroad-modeling-volume-two/ The

bill_stanton wrote: Plenty were built new in 1937 and even in 1936, following the new AAR standard, but with double doors. So most if not all of the DD 1937 cars were built that way. Tony

Does anyone know when railroads (e.g. northern pacific) started putting double doors on 1937 AAR 40 foot boxcars (since these originally had single doors, right?)? (I'm asking because Intermountain

Ben Hom wrote: The PFE reefers in question were rebuilds that were sheathed with plywood in 1947-48, and as the plywood began to fail, resheathed with tongue and groove in the 1950s. The old

Mark Mathu asked: "Athearn/Roundhouse has a 40' wood refrigerator car with steel ends in their product line. This appears to be the old Athearn blue box wood reefer tooling. Is that assumption

Didn't Richard also have a Duryea underframe in his West Rails line? I'llhave to check this weekend. Greg Martin Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs throughit. Norman Maclean

Thanks. I wasn't sure if there was some other reefer in Roundhouse's old line, or if perhaps Athearn picked up some other wood reefer tooling somewhere along the way. ---In STMFC@...,

Yes it's the old Athearn blue box, MDC roundhouse didn't make a 40' reefer and if it were a new model I'm sure Athearn would have announced it Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

How can you tell? The "pictures" are so scetchy nowadays one can't see what they are. Staffan Ehnbom