What I find interesting is a not frequently seen, apparently yellow diamond. Best end shot of those cars too. These cars were rebuilt from single sheathed auto box cars and were classified as "steel"

Eric, the question of how many safety valves keeps coming up on the list and has been answered repeatedly. It's very simple. The rules require one safety valve on cases of 6,500 gals. capacity or

Not true, Gene. CGW owned 200 flat cars numbered 3800-3999 which were built to the AAR standard 50 ton design. Some were used in piggyback service and, later, some had end bulkheads

Lionel at one time produced some relatively nicely done scale proportioned cars. One (I will describe by the catalog description since I haven't compared it to the prototype) was a PS-4. The trucks

FYI. The M&StL had 250 53'6" 50-ton AAR flat cars; 150 flats 23501-23799 built 1945-1948 and 100 flats 23801-23999, both series odd numbers only. Some were painted black, others box car red, both

All, I am building Sunshine Kit 87.4, which I purchased from Sunshine in 2009. The Kit comes with a Resin cast Dome with Two pressure Relief valves opposite each other. Another of the exact same

I have a copied photo of Southern 272250. This is a builders photo in poor shape and I was wondering if anyone had a better copy of this photo that they would share with me. I am particuoarly

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Eric (rgmodels@...) asked: "anyone know of any illustrations for the D&RGW standard gauge box cars #66000 - 66999" Steam Era Freight Cars

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Tim; As a Proto:48 modeler, I have to disagree with either AAR flat project being more risky than the NP/CB&Q/SP flats. The HO paradigm you apply here doesn't seem to transfer all that well to the

Bill, I have saved emails from Richard regarding Type 21's for every year from 2000 to 2012. Almost all of them were on STMFC. The archive search is still available isn't it? Is there some specific

Rob UP only had the 50 ton AAR flats, and AT&SF only had the 70 ton flats. C&NW and NP only had the 50 ton cars, and NYC only had the 70 tonners. 20+ O scale brass flats -- quite the investment!

Those are good choices for a PLASTIC model but I would think kinda risky for a brass importer -- precisely because some plastic kit maker might come along and do it. Maybe something less common but

anyone know of any illustrations for the D&RGW standard gauge box cars #66000 - 66999 or the narrow gauge pipe gons they were converted to #9600s other than Sloan's book. eric

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Rich these I would sign up for if you did the UP and ATSF would be looking at around 10 of each, flat cars are really hard to find. Assorted numbers of the others especially CNW, NP, and NYC and yep

I know Richard once was involved in a discussion some years ago regarding 8000 and 10000 gal. type 21 cars, but I don't remember why or when. I've got a batch of P2k 8000 gal kits and, if I remember

HO, Rich. Jon is working on an O scale tank car. Pierre Oliver