My Red Caboose box car is finished and on the layout. Thanks Ed and Richard, without your help it'd only have been stripped and repainted by now : ) Clark Propst

Brian REALLY needs to do this truck! It was incredibly common and the Accurail just isn't cutting it for me anymore... :-) Or... doesn't True Line Trains of Canada make this truck?? I can't find a

Gene Most of the releases have used original lettering - late 1940's. Also the undecs w/ decals have original lettering. Tim O'

Clark, The roster default is Youngstown doors unless otherwise specified. The reason is that the vast majority of 1937 AAR box cars had YSD. Trucks aren't listed on this roster. Regards, Ed Hawkins

Thanks a lot Ed, I'm ready to add the doors and weather. I looked at the PDF at that site, link below, I didn't see the trucks or doors listed. Hence my questions. Is this link to the wrong

Ed, Thanks for the info. I found the RMJ article on the Trainlife site. I am familiar with that series of articles but for some reason was thinking they only covered the RR owned cars and the

Andy, There were two orders of CSX 1958 c.f. covered hoppers: CSX 100-119, ACF lot 3538, 8-51, and CSX 120-139, Pullman-Standard lot 8161, 2-53. The IM model must represent a repainted car, likely

The 1/53 ORER lists CSX 100-139 as covered hoppers (LO): IL 29'3", IW 9'5", IH 8'7", outside length 35'9", width 10'1", height 12'9", 1958 CU FT, 70 tons. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

IIRC, Clark, the car you're modeling was numbered 901??, and in that case, according to the L&N diagram book, the doors were Youngstown corrugated and the running boards were Apex (90750-90999

If you zoom in on the Ed's Trains photo (which you can do with IE8, look at the lower right corner) the build date is under the a in Soya. It's fuzzy, but I'd say it says 6-51. No guarantees.

Clark, Presumably this kit is RC's 1937 AAR box car (the old IMWX kit). The information you seek is contained in the 1937 AAR box car roster on the STMFC. There were two types of doors used

Intermountain's new releases for this month include a Central Soya (reporting marks CSX) covered hopper. I once worked at a former Central Soya plant so I would like to include this car on my 1953

I opened the Red Caboose L&N box car kit box and out fell the sprue with two kinds of doors.. I forgot about having choices! I've seen too many guys use the ol' coin toss and be wrong. Would someone

This may be slightly off topic, but it is railroad hobby related. The NMRA 2012 National Convention Committee is looking for some help with new and different clinics. The convention is being held at

Nelson, Ed, and all others, The heart monogram was used between 1956 and 1960, only on new cars. I have not found any evidence that it was used on repainted cars. The first 40' cars to receive the

The herald is the 'flag in heart' version, so the correct build date would be 7-57. I guess I need to sell the car. Thanks for the clarification, Ed. Nelson

Thank you Richard! I'm going to go put the car together now... Clark Propst

Hello Bob, The 1906 Car Builder's Dictionary is also available free in PDF and other eBook formats online at: http://www.archive.org/details/carbuildersdict00smitgoog This site features half a

Apparently the current or next release of this car has lettering/stenciling appropriate for post-1956. Is there or has there been a version of this model lettered/stenciled appropriately for 1950 or

Nelson, What car number and Wabash monogram (heart or flag) is on your model? With your cut-off being 1953, this car isn't what you want if it has a heart monogram. It's possible that the graphics