As long as the tank car people are warmed up, I have been researching what the Dow Chemical cars might have looked like in the summer of 1951. I have several photos from Bob's Photo, and one from Jay

I have a Sunshine 42' Mather Rath car that I never did paint because the lettering on the decals was too small and it didn't include the REFRIGERATOR lettering. Now I can get the decals to finish

Randy, I have four photos of SCHX cars. Three are builder's photos which show only the as-built lettering. One is a photo dated 1952 which shows the rather elaborate Stauffer paint and lettering

Randy Hammilll wrote: I don't know much about the cars that made up the Stauffer fleet, and if someone has information, I'd sure like to see it. There were a great many 4000 and 7000-gallon

Tony - Stauffer had several divisions across the country. Would the decals also be appropriate for the eastern division lettered SCHX? Also, the SCHX cars were all either 8,000 or 10,000 gallon

Tony, Yes, you may share your copies with anyone who would like them. After all, sharing information is the purpose of these groups. I continue to be amazed and flattered that this article still has

Great stuff, Jerry. I have an undecorated Red Caboose kits that's just begging to have those Rath decals applied. Richard Hendrickson

Rich, Ben & Rich: Thank you for the replies. I will take Ben's suggestion and try to find an issue of "The Keystone Modeler" issue 37 for the in-service photos of the PRR X30 Paul C.

eddie_walters wrote: Mark or anyone is permitted to share copies with individuals for their personal use--in the copyright law, it's called "fair use"-- and If Mark doesn't have digital

Mark - As one of the younger modelers here (I was 2 1/2 when those articles were published!) I missed them when published in Mainline Modeler - and the back issues are no longer readily available. Is

Mark Feddersen wrote: I could only find a couple of top-down views of jacketed tank cars in Ed Kaminski's books, but none showed a top weld seam, so my view would be that it's not needed.

There is a 3/4 view builder's photo from Bill Lane's collection on Rob Schoneberg's site

C&S 20000 to 20349 were built in September 1907 by the Ingoldsby Car Company. I will send you a scan of the car diagram off list as soon as I get a chance. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

Clark means double sheathed. I know we did TH&B on this car a number of years ago, and it looks like we are scheduled to do it again in a couple of months: #4640 THB/Toronto Hamilton &

Paul C. Koehler asked: "Does anyone on this list have a good side view of this car for lettering purposes. Mine is now painted and I would like to decal it correctly." Rich Christie replied: "Paul,

Accurail's car, if available, would not be an accurate model because the cars were revised with different door tracks. See photos of our models 3851 and 3852 (no longer available). - Al Westerfield

They do? What Accurail series are you referring to? SGL Accurail makes a USRA DD box. It's your only choice now anyways : )) Check with them or 5th Ave Car Shops. Maybe they letter one? Clark

Of TH&B's original 1000 cars, roughly 200 were listed as of the beginning of 1948, with 100 still listed as of the beginning of 1950 (all of these cars were from the 4000-4299 series, rebuilt sometime

I was at Mark's this past week and saw all those tank cars, impressive. I'll forward your email to him, we'll see if he has answers for your questions Tom? Clark Propst

Accurail makes a USRA DD box. It's your only choice now anyways : )) Check with them or 5th Ave Car Shops. Maybe they letter one? Clark Propst