A lot of it depends on which part of the country you're modeling. In the upper Midwest, pulpwood never moved on bulkhead flats. The standard pulpwood log here was eight feet long, and were always a

Paolo Roffo wrote: Ordinarily rough lumber moved on flat cars, finished lumber in box cars (often with double doors when available), but there were exceptions. And there are lots of photos in

Can anyone supply a formula to duplicate the box car brown color Fox Valley used on the Pre-War M-53. I would like to use Floquil or True Color paint as both are solvent base paint. Thank you for your

Hello all - I'm new to this list, so pardon me if this has been covered before. Before the advent of center-beam flatcars (let's say early 1950s), how would finished lumber en route to a distributor

Eric Thur wrote: "First, for both kit versions, when drilling the Right side grab irons, the "top two" grabs get drilled "Above the bolts", The "Bottom four" "Below the bolts. This can clearly be

My photo of SP MW 5868 looks nothing like Jerry's sample. In the photo I took, "SP MW 5868" is left of center (and the access port), without periods, while "SCALE TEST" is on the right. Centered

The MoPac ones are indeed orange, for my timeframe of mid-60s. I did one from the Walthers car. Ron Merrick <snip>

Bruce Smith Wrote: "In addition, they had a recently released READING 36' XMp with wood or steel doors and with roof hatches/floor hopper for Hershey Cocoa service" All, If you are planning on

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Bill; I got both the G28 and X26 and both body castings are very nice. Nice fine rivet work. One-piece bodies. You may want to substitute details for

I have a picture of SP 5868 and several of SSW 99203, both of which are this type car. Contact me offline if you want me to send them to you. Thanks! -- Brian P. Ehni From:

They seem to be fairly generic with minor differences. MP had some see: http://www.forums.rrarchives.com/download/file.php?id=4102 From what I understand, they were orange in earlier times. I did a

Thank you Bruce and Eric I am personally pleased to see the 36-foot cars. These shorter cars and the 50-foot cars together made up about 14% of the XM car fleet in the USA in the post-WWII era. I am

Over the weekend, I picked up a white metal kit of a HO Scale Test Car that was manufactured by Stewart Products of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Does anyone know much about the kit, or prototypes it

Bill, While I did not attend the recent PRR meet, I did attend the RPM-Valley Forge event a couple months back. I posted a similar message to the 1914-1941 group and must have forgotten to post it

Bill, Folks, A number of STMFC listers were there including yours truly. Lots of interesting stuff going on and great models in the model room. One of the highlights was indeed F&C with 2 new PRR

Just curious if anyone on the list was at the PRR meeting this past weekend and if so can they report on new Funaro & Camerlengo kits? In addition to the new PRR kits they are advertising I see they

Just as a FWIW, A couple of months ago I sent an e-mail to Mike asking about contingency plans if Yahoo goes down the toilet. Does anyone EVER look at the ads they append to messages? I doubt

Bill – I don’t want to dampen your enthusiasm but there are few economies of scale in urethane production. New patterns would be required for each scale. Once the problem of making one scale is

I am looking for a person or group of people in another scale to piggyback and share expenses for a PRR urethane freight car kit I am trying to get started with a high end manufacturer. It is not

Brian Ehni wrote: Threads often get hijacked, but this is the first time I can recall a thread post escaping to another group! The Rapido Canadian step issue is under discussion on the Passenger Car