Paul, I had forgotten about the SPHS offering these cars. I also forgot whether or not I ordered any. I am an SPHS member. I'll keep watch of the SPHS site. Lived in El Paso for 25 years. In that

Thank you, Tim. Gene Green

Ed, Please contact me off group. I have a question I wnat to ask you. Thank's, Fenton srrfan1401@... -- Fenton Wells 3047 Creek Run Sanford NC

IIRC, the truck in question was under a L&N box car. The only image of that I have is in Ed Hawkins' article in July '91 RMJ. The photo is half-toned and too small to ID the trucks. Richard, can

Gene, The SP Historical Society has the exclusive for the early (1949 re-weigh date) scheme. We are waiting delivery from Intermountain, hopefully the end of nexk week. I had a few at the SP Mini Meet

Brian, I'll second Tim's statement that we need this truck done to your standards of quality and detail. The Accurail truck was state of the art when it first appeared, but nowadays a truck

Unless Dennis Storzik tooled the truck for True Line Trains, the Chinese did an incredible job of almost exactly copying his truck. Brian Leppert Carson City, NV

My Red Caboose box car is finished and on the layout. Thanks Ed and Richard, without your help it'd only have been stripped and repainted by now : ) Clark Propst

Brian REALLY needs to do this truck! It was incredibly common and the Accurail just isn't cutting it for me anymore... :-) Or... doesn't True Line Trains of Canada make this truck?? I can't find a

Gene Most of the releases have used original lettering - late 1940's. Also the undecs w/ decals have original lettering. Tim O'

Clark, The roster default is Youngstown doors unless otherwise specified. The reason is that the vast majority of 1937 AAR box cars had YSD. Trucks aren't listed on this roster. Regards, Ed Hawkins

Thanks a lot Ed, I'm ready to add the doors and weather. I looked at the PDF at that site, link below, I didn't see the trucks or doors listed. Hence my questions. Is this link to the wrong

Ed, Thanks for the info. I found the RMJ article on the Trainlife site. I am familiar with that series of articles but for some reason was thinking they only covered the RR owned cars and the

Andy, There were two orders of CSX 1958 c.f. covered hoppers: CSX 100-119, ACF lot 3538, 8-51, and CSX 120-139, Pullman-Standard lot 8161, 2-53. The IM model must represent a repainted car, likely

The 1/53 ORER lists CSX 100-139 as covered hoppers (LO): IL 29'3", IW 9'5", IH 8'7", outside length 35'9", width 10'1", height 12'9", 1958 CU FT, 70 tons. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

IIRC, Clark, the car you're modeling was numbered 901??, and in that case, according to the L&N diagram book, the doors were Youngstown corrugated and the running boards were Apex (90750-90999

If you zoom in on the Ed's Trains photo (which you can do with IE8, look at the lower right corner) the build date is under the a in Soya. It's fuzzy, but I'd say it says 6-51. No guarantees.

Clark, Presumably this kit is RC's 1937 AAR box car (the old IMWX kit). The information you seek is contained in the 1937 AAR box car roster on the STMFC. There were two types of doors used

Intermountain's new releases for this month include a Central Soya (reporting marks CSX) covered hopper. I once worked at a former Central Soya plant so I would like to include this car on my 1953

I opened the Red Caboose L&N box car kit box and out fell the sprue with two kinds of doors.. I forgot about having choices! I've seen too many guys use the ol' coin toss and be wrong. Would someone