The CofGa didn't own many cars with with A-3 trucks, but the following 70-ton cars were so equipped: 1375-1474 1958 C/H blt 1953 (PS) 1475-1499 2003 C/H blt 1956 (PS) 22001-22500 triple hoppers

I have a variety of HO scale steam era freight cars for sale from my personal collection. Approximately 400 in total. All are mint, factory condition. Never operated and always stored in their

Brian,   The Monon had several:   3501-3601 low-side composite gons, built PS/Thrall 1952 for re-bar service. 4221-4320 ACF LO built 10/47 4331-4330 PS LO built 3/53 4401-4430 PS LO built

Does anyone know if B&LE, CofG, FEC, KCS, LNE, Monon, or Reading ever had freight cars with plain bearing 70-ton A-3 Ride Control trucks? TIA, Brian Leppert Tahoe Model Works Carson City, NV

John Greedy please contact me off list at atsfcondr42@... Charlie Slater To: STMFC@... From: JGreedy@... Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:03:57 +0000 Subject: [STMFC] Re:

I have a scan of CB&Q 21998, no longer in revenue service. It looks a lot like the XM-17/18 but the ends are 7/7 (instead of 6/7) and it appears to have 4 truss rods. Any idea what class of box car it

Gary - Actually, the needle beams in the kit are beveled to have the queen posts slant towards the end of the car. The reality of model versus prototype means that they can't slant as much as they

I'm no photo specialist, but the impression I have is that the white is overexposed, causing loss of detail and fuzzy lettering. What puzzles me is that the lettering in the (presumably red) upper

Ted Culotta's Steam Era Freight Cars binder has a picture of one of these boxcars on un-numbered page 4 and it has 4 trussrods that point back to the ends of the car. The Westerfield instructions

Thanks John, It sounds to me as if at least 3 out of 4 of these cars were 6300 series cars. I spent some time in my 1943 ORER last night and interestingly had a tough time matching numbers in

Sometimes progress is agonizingly slow, sometimes happens at warp speed. I found a reference library that had the 1931 Car Builders Cyclopedia, they copied the pic in question, and I have it in hand

Howdy!     Not speaking as a manufacturer but a producer of custom decals for individuals and would like to comment on producing decals.     When we are asked to produce a decal set, we

Bruce, Richard, and others; My photo of 6307 is from the Carroll Schmidt collection. The photo is an action view coupled in train. All boards in the "White" banner are clearly visible as are shadows

I tend to think that some manufactures think as long as nothing is misspelled then it's close enough. Todd Horton ________________________________ To: stmfc@... Sent: Wed, September

If you've ever used Sunshine's PFE decals, the lettering is terrible. Fortunately when it comes to PFE there are LOTS of choices, and thanks to Dick Harley there will be even more choices coming down

And the "D" in the brushstroke Dixieland is 18".   Regards,   Mitch Mercante

Frank,   I've measured the decals and the "n" in "Dixieland" is 9".  I'll have to dig out the other kit to measure the brushstroke lettering.   Regards,   Mitch Mercante

The weight and dimensional data on the Sunshine set seem to be "something fairly close" but not accurate, in lettering style. Sometimes when multiple manufacturers are keeping each other on their

Frank, I agree with you, that in many cases I do not find the Sunshine decals to be very accurate. They look good until you put the model next to a prototype photo. One of the worse decals is the

Could someone who has an assembled model or kit with the Sunshine decals measure the lettering? For example, the stencil drawings in Frt. Car Journal No. 63 show that the"n" in Dixieland should be 9"