Guys, I certainly don't want to get into an argument regarding color, so I'll leave it to those with the book America's Colorful Railroads by Don Ball Jr. to determine the interior color of MP hopper

I have never seen a photo of a panel sided gondola in BCR. I believethose that survived were rebuilt before any were painted red. They weresuch distinctive cars, if anyone would have seen on painted

Add the outside hung brakebeams and I agree, much earlier then dated. Howard Garner

I’ve already painted the entire car black, but will go back and repaint theinterior. ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

Full size: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/ajaxhelper/?CISOROOT=p15799coll65&CISOPTR=9477&action=2&DMSCALE=100&DMWIDTH=5000&DMHEIGHT=5000 Regards, -Jeff

Clark Mid1950's should be black. I don't believe BCR was used by the MP on gondolas until the early or mid1960s. Charlie

The AMC designs tended to be AAR designs with a few Specialty changes. Al Kresse

Yes Al, but weren't they also AMC design cars? Bruce was interested in the AAR design twins, of which the Kadee model is one example. The Kadee and Atlas and Athearn models represent slightly

Also note the raised hand rail adjacent to the brake staff. I'd say this is a lot closer to 1915 than 1930. Dennis Storzek

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Group; Nice F29 and load shot

Bill Pardie wrote: This was true in some but not all of his kits. Sometimes he put in decals too. I decided to sell them as-is, so some buyers did get more than others. I am still in the middle of

I was fortunate to be able to pI was very fortunate in being able to pick up some of Richard's sunshine Santa Fe refer kits in the auction of his kits. I had set these aside but yesterday pulled them

Clark: As this car is in my "On The Way To Completion" stack I have another question on the painting. I have a photo of a MP gondola from an elevated prospective. This shows the interior of the car

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Folks; Just from my perspective, I wanted to pass on a few highlights from the PRRT&HS annual meet: Funaro & Camerlengo B&O N-12 hopper: Really nice

Bob, You have found a photo of a ventilated Fruit Car which were used in thetraffic in the early days. Based on Coupler I suspect it is late 1890sto 1915. Tom VanWormer Monument CO thecitrusbelt@...

Clark, That information is incorrect. MP painted open-type cars (flat, gondola, and hopper) black until 1961, which is after the period of the STMFC discussion group. The change occurred soon after

This is a link to an image from the USC Digital Library. It shows a scene from a Southern California citrus packing shed from sometime between 1915 and1930. Given packing house developments in the

Was looking for a rainy morning project so I dug out a F&C MP panelside gon kit. I seldom read kit instructions especially F&Cs, but I didnotice they said the MP started painting these cars box car

Thank you. I now have found that tab, lower edge, center. Best to ya, Mike Bauers Milwaukee, Wi …………...

Mike, When viewing these images, make the view box bigger by grabbing the box at the bottom. Once you make the box bigger, click on the magnifier. These images are scanned at such high resolution