Not sure about Boston,but they got to Vermont.Armand Premo

Victor, In general, with automobile cars (or any 40' double door car) with the right door centered on the car, opening the left door completely would obscure the reporting marks if they were on the

Am building an HO Speedswitch Media Wabash automobile boxcar. (By the way, this is wonderful kit, but I would have preferred the ladder stiles on the ends to be molded on. I have already broke one

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I have some ancient Champ decals; the envelope is marked "HO/OO".  This may explain the size discrepancy. John B. Allyn

John, WE know that SAL Ventilated Boxes got up to Chicago via the C&O in the summers with watermellons, so why not Boston.  Yard clerks at the Russell Manifest Receiving Yard said they came back

I believe that was the one - I can't (or want to) remember after the experience. Thanks for the kudos Jerry Glow The Villages FL http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/decals.html

Champ's not the only culprit. Even some of Sunshine's is not sized properly. My GM&O "supplemental set" was done for just that reason and I eventually made it a complete set. Jerry Glow The Villages

Is that a SAL "vent" box I see off in the distance... just barely left of the telephone pole? John Degnan Scaler164@...

Very interesting freight car shot, many PRR but look toward the rear!!! Mark Morgan PS Grandpa now http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5786323249/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Richard I don't know if you can draw a parallel but the CB&Q ordered 200 dump cars from the Ingoldsby Automatic Car. Co. in 1904 and they were built by Pullman. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

Naperville/Lisle is Oct. 20, 21, 22 with a last breakfast Sunday morning the 23rd. Jim

In what era did Champ put out the PFE set that didn't include any R- class markings? When I saw it I thought, "It's one thing to leave people to get a stripe from a striping set, or a DF emblem from

The release rod is quite visible in the lower photo on page 95. The upper photo shows the other side of the car and the brake reservoir hides the rod. Many freight cars had the rod accessible from

For my first attempt (on a Front Range box car) I had no idea how to model the brake components so I used an Athearn box car as my template!! Needless to say, I built a nice mirror image of the brake

Looking with a magnifying glass, it appears to say "Defect Card". All freight cars have some provision for a defect card, usually a round or square tube, into which a car inspector can slide a

Jerry What set did you use? I'm guessing you tried to use HC-93, to letter a rebuilt USRA hopper that Overland offered as a company sand car (OMI 3129)? It's true the right hand side data looks

Tim is right. The sets Rich produced in the last few years before he died were vastly better those produced from the original Max Gray artwork, and even the latter were often progressively

Champ developed the ability to make very tiny print, although it was not perfectly legible. I think that the older sets inherited from Max Gray were guilty of oversize lettering as well as the

When again is Naperville 2011 at Lisle? Al Kresse