I just happen to have one of those... like a lot of Sunshine kits I bought it because I had the opportunity and I just liked the car. But it worked out nicely in this case. I have three other

Dave, Having read all of the Southern Pacific Lines Bulletins provided to the employees, their was very significant stress during the first year (at least) of USRA control to fully load all of the

Dave; ETO (European Theater of Operations) General Arrangement Drawing indicates an empty weight of 65.6 Long Tons,(2200 lbs. I believe) giving an actual weight of 144,320 (calculated) lbs. Link to

Does anyone on the list have one of the accurail aar 40 gons that can tell me the height of the sides and the dimension of the floor? Thanks Kevin Sprayberry

Anyone care to comment on the possible overload of these flats (140000LB Capacity)? The 1905 vintage PRR consol (class H6) weighed 170,000 lb empty (locomotive only), and these seem beefier. (The

Another gon with drop doors are the Santa Fe's Ga-22 and Ga-25 composite gons, done in resin by Sunshine complete with drop doors cast in white metal for weight, their Kit # 61.1. The one piece ends

Andy, Walthers lists the DA kits as out of stock, but several other on-line vendors seem to have them. Walthers and other vendors also have DA GS gon parts in stock. Regards Bruce Smith Auburn,

Tim is correct about the number series. W&R had a hard order for 50 of the cars before it decided to import them. Some DRGW modeler has long gondola drags to run. gary laakso south of Mike Brock

I have several built up resin, resin/plastic and plastic kits that I just can’t justify running on my layout anymore. If you’d like a list and/or photos please contact me off list at:

Lee 70000-70699 Interestingly, at least 20 cars were refitted and classified as class GB for the 'bullion trade'. These are the cars W&R imported just over 10 years ago. Tim O'

Gary, Which number series are you referring to for these cars? Lee A. Gautreaux - The RailGoat http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/

Andy, You might want to poke around here as well: http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/gon/index.htm I don't have as complete photographic coverage of the steam era SP cars as I do

I also found my Intermountain Caswell. I was looking for a kit... that's why I couldn't find it yesterday. I found an RTR car that I had never even taken out of the box. Definitely one of IM's

I dug out of both of my Detail Associates kits... both are #200 composite side. Looks like it's ebay to shop for a steel side. Are the DA cars OOP now? Red Caboose kind of rained on their parade

Rock Island's GS gondolas use what the folio diagrams refer to as a Creeping Shaft mechanism to control the doors. They had as many as 6700 (1930) mostly composite GS gons built in the 1920's by ACF,

Tom Olsen wrote: This statement depends on era. In the era of monthly publication, the effective date of an entry (found at the very end of each entry) was usually the preceding month of the

Tom, Reading 50-ton offset-side hoppers in series 86000-86699, built 10-55, were the first new Reading hoppers with the speed lettering. Regards, Ed Hawkins

Group, Sorry for the wasted bandwith with the incomplete message. Ed, you stated that the Reading "speed lettering" of the Road Name began to be applied to Reading boxcars in late 1956. My question

Ed, You have said that the speed lettering on the Reading box cars began to be used in

Buddy, My January 1938 ORER (effective October 1937) shows the following information: "XM Box #3000-3249, 237 cars included in this series: "VA" Ventilated, steel underframe, 13 cars - See Note