Bill McCoy wrote: Yes. Those are transferred Pacific Lines cars, and the reweigh date is representative of the time period. Tony Thompson Almost enough info, Tony. When did they transfer

Denis Blake wrote: "The 2011 Savannah Prototype Modelers Meet is scheduled to take place March 25-26. This meet is hosted by Bob Harpe and is held at the Port Wentworth, GA Community Center. There

Ben I hate it when that happens. I changed the date of my meet a couple of times because I found out it conflicted with different things. One was Easter and then the other was Mothers Day. One of

Bill McCoy wrote: Yes. Those are transferred Pacific Lines cars, and the reweigh date is representative of the time period. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

Denis Blake wrote: "The 2011 Savannah Prototype Modelers Meet is scheduled to take place March 25-26. This meet is hosted by Bob Harpe and is held at the Port Wentworth, GA Community Center. There are

The 2011 Savannah Prototype Modelers Meet is scheduled to take place March 25-26. This meet is hosted by Bob Harpe and is held at the Port Wentworth, GA Community Center. There are several

Just curious i don't know much about this car . Doug kinder

A new IM release announcement shows a S40-5 stock car lettered for T&NO, TNO 15503-15767 with a reweigh date of EP 2-57. Is this accurate? Bill McCoy Jax, FL

The LCIX cars look a lot like (identical to?) cars built for Mathieson for dry ice (MAWX/SHPX). But Liquid Carbonic also had reefers (RB). I have color scans of DICX 208, 320, 340, 374, 379, 381 and

I agree they're incompatible - they'll couple, sorta, but may swing over to one side (don't remember which offhand) and cause derailments when going around the opposite curve. -- Jeff

Rich, I don't have handy access to the 8-10-35 Railway Age issue but could look at it during my next visit to the Museum of Transportation. If you are referring to the cars built by AC&F in

Gentleman. I know this is an old subject but - Does anyone know what color the Liquid Carbonic cars were? Further. In the Car builders Cyclopedia from 1937, pg 194, figure 165, there is reference to a

Aw shucks... Thanks Doug. To clarify one point though, my buddy Huang (the guy with my photo on his dart board for those that sat in on my clinic!) DOES understand our desire for fidelity and was

It still amazes me how many have commented on this new freight car, without reading/understanding the comments that this is an early test shot and that much work still needs to be done before a final

Bill, Thanks for resolving this. I'm looking forward to this car! Ed Edward Sutorik

So, now that I’m (somewhat) recovered from the meet and I have a moment to breath again, let me answer some of the comments regarding the test shots of our new meat reefer seen at Cocoa. First, by

ACFX 4839 appears to be very close to the Warren and Columbian cars modeled by Sunshine. The AESX cars have later all-welded underframes and different vents etc. on the domes, as they were used

Hi Ed, If you have the RP Cyc #14, open to page 78 (the lead page in the article). You will see that the roof does indeed have boards, not metal. Further, Ed and Pat sent me the original scan of the

I'm still interested in reconciling what looks like t&g planking on the roof of the model with the statements (supported by a roof shot) in RPC #14 that the roof surface was relatively smooth sheet

Darrall Swift wrote: Depends a bit on what you mean by "match," but no, I'd say none of the photos you cite show the same car body. Two reasons for saying so: tank aspect ratio (length to