Fellas, I am curious what roads (other than SP) had auto boxcars with opening end doors. I was searching on google and while I saw model images, I was not able to source any prototypical information

Fenton, Have you considered Herald King? Their set B-194 does a 40' yellow boxcar with black lettering and their set B-195 does a 40' red boxcar with white lettering. I ordered some a

Thanks for alerting me to that reference, Ray. Those photos show two of the three configurations for these box cars (as received with 11+ ft inside height with 14-6 door; as rebuilt to 10-3 inside

Holy smoke, Gary, were these the two Rocket Express models you began in February 2007 or are you doing some more? On a more serious note, has any one tried to contact Rocket Express of late? On two

Thanks Richard and Tim. I was thinking War Emergency too, but I didn't see that MKT had any. The underframe sounds like a cool variation, which together with the yellow paint job is going to be a

Good call, Tim. Those 79000 series M-K-T cars had War Emergency single sheathed bodies, but they were rebuilds; the new bodies were installed on 40 ton fish belly center sill underframes salvaged

Ken, it looks extremely similar to War Emergency box cars. I don't know what else it could be. Tim O'Connor

In Tom Dill's Southern Pacific in Oregon Pictorial, there is a picture on page 46 of a Katy single-sheathed box with 5/5 dreadnaught ends and Youngstown steel door. It appears to be painted in the

Steven, I think you are right. I've never seen a WP car in the number series 36026-36050. The information I have came from a PS-1 spreadsheet, but I don't know where the info came from

The book "Wabash/Nickel Plate/DT&I Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment" published by Morning Sun written by James Kinkaid has images of four of these cars.16081 is shown in the middle of

Gerry Glow offers those decals in both colors. ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

Hi Guys, I don't believe that these cars vacated the TS roster. They are still listed in January 1968 as TS cars. In fact I have seen a couple of these cars on the ground as sheds, there's at

I need to buy 1 set of Champ Decals L48 Modern Gothic Letters in white. These are 3/32". Please contact me off line at pennsy6200@... . Dennis Williams

Jon, the Santa Fe Ga-54s are perfect for your 1941 date, as they were built by General American in 1941 and IM’s P/L scheme is the one applied to the cars when built new; thew were the only Santa Fe

On 11/18/2013 11:34 AM, Brian carlson wrote: IM seems to have a bad grasp on what will sell and what will not. I have been waiting for a set of FTs, in original

Don't feel bad I had approx. two dozen on order since the announcement first came out. I got zero. Brian Carlson

On 11/18/2013 10:35 AM, Ed Hawkins wrote: OK, which cars are good and which have bogus lettering. I haven't paid attention to these and of course when the reviews

Elden, I echo your comments about the new InterMountain A.M.C. (nee AAR Alternate Standard) hopper car models. In my view the models are exquisite and true to the prototype drawings from which they

Maybe Ted is close enough to being back in business to release the MKT decals in black and white as it sounds like a few sets are needed. Thanks to all who replied Fenton Wells -- Fenton Wells 5

I have assembled the Speedwitch model but have held off painting it because it has the black decals for the yellow car. The yellow scheme is very iffy for my 1955 railroad and I would prefer white