Joel Holmes wrote: Joel, The correct address for TMR is: http://www.canadasouthern.com/tmr/CDS.htm I count three available CDS sets for steam-era freight cars, and the twin hopper is one of

Strasburg is also Rail Road. Richard Wilkens

Whoops--memo to self--finish post before hitting "send" button!! Steve Lucas. http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=83979&lang=en and also cut off all detail below the slope sheets,

Back in 10 BSTMFC, I shortened an Athearn offset hopper car and also cut off all detail below the slope sheets, making new end sills and bracing. The model's structural integrity was.

The Technicolor movie cameras were immense because they had to handle three strips of film. And very costly which is why most films were still shot in B&W well into the 1950s. By contract there was

Bill, You are correct, the system lent itself well to the beginnings of the "color cover era". Before that time, and you can look back to some old Kalmbach books for good examples, color images for

Tony-- Pardon me, my big fingers should have typed "PS-2". For PS-1 boxcars, I usually prefer the Kadee car, having five of them. Steve Lucas.

Actually there were a number of lines that used the two word form and some still do today. Most initials use RR, not just R (unless it is RY for railway). My somewhat tongue-in-cheek point was that to

I was a photographer for The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville from 1976 thru 1987 and remember hearing about a retired staffer who shot most of the Food and Home photos for the paper and used this

At least Webster's helps keep the great unwashed on track, assuming they ever look up things in the dictionary. I get so tired of listening to or seeing the word 'flatcar' turned into 'flatbed

I'm not certain of the motion picture processes such as Technicolor, but in still photography there was a camera that shot three holders of black/white film through red, green and blue filters. It

Jerry Glow wrote: Jerry, the car he wants to model is NOT a PS-2, though it might be good to have a modified set like that. BTW I would be willing to bet that no one but Pullman-Standard built

Steve Lucas wrote: Um, Steve, the PS-1 is a box car. Have we wandered off subject or is something else going on? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest

With the exception of the Long Island Rail Road, I think that this is a usage that ended before the Civil War. John B. Allyn

I would (and have) replaced rungs with stryene rod rathen than removing the ladders entirely and compromising the structural integrety of the model. As for NYC decals, I have a set for a Dispatch

Andy, To be consistent you should be consistent with terminology of the era you are writing about . . . . even if it means fighting with "spell checker" in Microsoft Word .  It never likes "wrot"

Jerry and all that have replied-- So much for using that Atlas PS-1 to model this car...but I just happen to have almost finished an Intermountain ACF covered hopper that may get the NYC lettering.

Andy Sperandeo wrote: Here's a good illustration of the problem, which authority should you use? The Car Builders Cycs have for decades defined the term "box car," not "boxcar." I would submit

My only problem with the two terms is that using the various indices for publications including Kalmbach's you have to search with both terms to get all the results. Don Burn

For those confused about Pullman-Standard covered hoppers, I commend to you Ed Kaminski's book (which Signature Press published), entitled "Pullman-Standard Freight Cars, 1900-1960." It happens to