Tom Christensen is correct that the ends are 4-5; I missed that when making a quick scan through my steel auto car files. Unfortunately for your purposes, Tim, they're round cornered; the O-24s

Rich Orrm wrote: Thanks for the links, Rich. I see what you mean, and the photos are quite clear. From a modeling perspective, the rivet rows DO correspond to what would be present in a 4-6

Tony, I'm the first to admit I am not that conversant on rivet patterns. The builder's photos which I copied and enlarged to see the overlapping seams are

Denny Anspach writes: "It is now just six (6) weeks until the Cocoa Beach meet, and of course that means just six weeks to GET GOING on your DT&I gon projects!" Well...OK. OTOH, I am still working

Elden, can you elaborate on the approved official uses for this info? KL

Tom Do you know, were the 4/5 ends S-corner or W-corner? I am already planning on cloning some 4/5 Sunshine ends to model SP A-50-12's, so I could make a couple of extras and do one of the ACL

Tim O'Conner wrote "Evidently that makes two roads that owned these cars (ACL and MKT) that Proto 2000 (and Walthers) has ignored. Weird! I mean, why not?" Tim, If you count locomotives then Proto

Tim O'Connor wrote: "I have a photo of PRR 73713 that is riding on WEIRD trucks -- Crown trucks perhaps?" Not Crown trucks. Look closely at the trucks - they have a leaf spring package and the

Friends, it is just six weeks until "The Bash at The Beach" begins. For those on the list who participated in the 2010 Shake/Take project (DT&I 40' drop end gondola), it is also just six weeks for

The ACL cars ( O-22 14100-14199, O-24 14200-14499) had 4/5 ends and alternate center rivets.   Tom Christensen Evidently that makes two roads that owned these cars (ACL and MKT) that Proto 2000

I wrote: But re-reading Rich's post and looking at a poor Xerox photo of one of these cars, it looks like it is NOT the ACR pattern as normally meant but is a kind of double panel, with normal

Rich Orr wrote: Just a tiny nit to mention: Standard Railway Equipment Company did not term itself "Stanray" until after the time span of this list, though of course there is no confusion about

There were some, Scott, (e.g. C&NW) but not the ones I listed. Richard Hendrickson

The PRR X38 were built in two groups with differences between the groups. 58XXX series were built in 1940 with 5 panel sides (2 left 3 right of the doors) 5/5 ends AAR side sill X29 type roof and

Rich, The PRR X38 has issues with the panels on the left side of the door, just as with the Santa Fe Cars. There were two types of roofs used on the PRR cars as well, the later group matching the P2K

Well, the Katy cars and the MoPac cars both have fishbelly underframe. Note that I'm not entirely positive about the number of panels, but for cars of this type I'm not that demanding as to the exact

Richard Wilkens wrote: Yes. Certainly the most comprehensive one, though assembling all the old Interurbans paperbacks would collectively produce a lot of info too. Tony Thompson

Hi Tony, What Sacramento Northern book are you referring to? The one by Demoro? Thanks, Richard Wilkens

Group, I'm looking for construction location (specific plant) of the following: ACL 9200-9299 phosphate B&O 450200-450499 gondola B&O 450500-450749 gondola WM 50701-50800 gondola There is a good

According to CP records, the 293935-294228 series cars were renumbered from the 290000-290299 series in 1957-58, and were originally built by Canadian Car & Foundry in 1952-53. I believe, but can't