Very close to dead on right. But the major error is the MIRROR IMAGE roof ! Oops. The *almost* dead-on right award goes to several Athearn models including the R-40-23

Richter Vinegar had four of these, painted school bus yellow, from the late 1960s until about 1980. They cycled between an apple processing facility in Scottville, Michigan (about ten miles east of

At one time, the Southern owned and moved a considerable number of stock cars. In addition to cattle, several hundred cars of horses and mules were sent to Pinners Point, VA for export to Spain

Oops! You're right. The diagonal panels are reversed.

Aleene's Tacky Glue has a long and storied past. Originally designed by 3M to glue blue foam insulation to plywood, it lost out in favor of tube-loaded products, such as Liquid Nails. 3M sold the

I have used(with good results) Aleene's. I buy the smaller bottle as it will dry out over the years. There is no strength to this product so it should not be used for 'pulling' surfaces. However,

RE: Cattle chewing on coating Note the caption said the coating was tested “on 25 cars for 3 years”. I’m assuming someone would notice if there was a problem with the cattle chewing on the

Garth You are correct they are cut backwards or the wrong way round. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

John, Aren't the roof stiffening panels cut backwards? Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Union Pacific class S-40-12. This is one of the very few models that Athearn got dead-on right (but I think the brake gear has to be rearranged).

Thanks Jack. With that information I was able to Google more information on it. Turns out there is a survivor car at IRM! Pretty cool. Thanks Scott McDonald

This is a former GPEX milk tank car, repurposed after milk traffic largely had left railroads. The Pfaudler glass-lined tanks for milk were also well suited to vinegar and wine, among other

Yes, I know why they have the extra rivets, just didn't know if there was an industry term. The 1943 CBC has a notation of a photo of 187085, noted as, "light weight construction." It also has

Hello, Does anybody have any any information on the car in the link below? I know Speas was a vinegar company in Kansas City. Was this a more modern vinegar car with tanks in it? The car appears to

Sorry it’s sold

Terry Metcalfe's UP Freight Cars book (p 93) mentions that the B-50-24 construction saved over 5,000 pounds over the B-50-19 and that the October 1939 issue of Railway

Is the kit still available?

Has to be a modeler's term. On the prototype they'd be concerned with the structural member, not the attachment rivets. Dennis Storzek

I doubt they had to remove it; the cattle would take care of that :-) The short text included with the image is interesting, in that it mentions hides "sticking" to the slats. I suspect the UP

UP Livestock Car 47630D (Class Not Visible) Photo from Don Strack’s UtahRails Website: https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Union-Pacific/UP-Freight-Cars/i-VCQBnhr/A Click on the photo to