One thng about the good old days when there waslittle data available for the modeler was that there were a lot more derelictcars around to get data from. The reuse of retired cars for storage,

 I don't believe that John Nehrich and the RPI groupget nearly enough credit for the ,"Great Awakening".Armand Premo

I was the Manager of Grain Trains in 1978-80 on UP. All the cars assigned to unit grain trains were covered hoppers, all from UP when we started the shuttle grain program, running from Western Kansas

I find the emergence of interest in prototype freight cars in the modelrailroading hobby interesting. I came to the topic much later than manyhere, but can retrace the developing interest through

Yes, the name of the article was "Five Boxcar Improvements", and it appeared in the April, 1982 issue of RMC. Scott Haycock ---In STMFC@..., wrote : "Dennis, did this article in turn inspire your

There was quite a bit of interest in the SP GS gons on the ATSF Richmond sand house trestle which I posted at http://northbaylines.blogspot.com/2014/04/locomotive-sand-at-richmond.html. I did some

---In STMFC@..., <fgexbill@...> wrote : "Dennis, did this article in turn inspire your article a few years later: "Five Changes..." about the changes a modeler could make to a Athearn 40-ft steel

I used the Accurail kit to model this car, but as I look at the photo, it appears not to have a Hutchins roof. Bill Welch

Last month I posted some fleet distribution data. Today I have posted the contents of my source document and a brief synopsis of the 1944 freight and passenger tonnage ratings for the Barstow-Oakland

Bill, good memory! Dennis's article would be in RMC April 1982, a classic that I still frequently consult while chopping away at 17 blue-box and yellow-box Athearn 40-footers. (Am too cheap to give

Claus Schlund asked: "Am I reading the dimensional data correctly - this is an 8' 6" IH car? The lettering is a little unclear, but that is what it looks like to my eyes, anyone know for

 Hi List Members, Am I reading the dimensional data correctly - thisis an 8' 6" IH car? The lettering is a little unclear, but that is what it lookslike to my eyes, anyone know for sure?. -

Dennis, did this article in turn inspire your article a few years later: "Five Changes..." about the changes a modeler could make to a Athearn 40-ft steel boxcar to make it more prototypical in

None, not that I can think of, ever. Which is why that article was such an eye opener... before that, everyone just sort of assumed that this sort of in depth information was simply unobtainable, I

Ben If you want to "roll-your-own", a starting-point for a font to approximate the CN&L railroad roman-style stencil might be: Baskerville Old Face. ...some tweaking in vector drawing software (e.g.

Ron Merrick wrote: "The cars were near-duplicates of an N&W war emergency HT class.  You may find an MM article on these cars, written by Martin Loft[o]n."   This is a bit misleading - Martin's

Ted bring two copies of that photo. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Richard Brennan asked: "So... Prior to this 1978 article (in the 8th issue of PMM); How many 18-page write-ups of a single prototype class had been published... anywhere?"   Not of a single class,

Is it a ‘for sale’ photo? If so, keep on the top of a pile at the St LouisRPM ; )) ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

As I mentioned a while back, in TT we have a version of the Accurail s/s boxcar. As I have done a Hutchins roof, I was thinking of assembling one as a Columbia Newberry and Laurens boxcar as per