Tim, That 1950s era X31A floorboard I mentioned to Staffan? I have sliced it into thin wafers. Next step, make boards out of it... for... you guessed it, an HO scale PRR X31A! Given the trouble

With the moderator's kind indulgence: Clearly the index now belongs to Kalmbach and they can give or sell it to whomever they chose or just kill it if that is their preference. From comments on

Seems to me that this car could be a good start for models of ICC-104 cars if a new dome is mounted on the tank. Your thoughts?

Nice work on the wood, but the underside is wayyyyyyy too clean. Those plain bearings threw off a lot of gunk. Steve Lucas.

Lou, thanks for that information. I imagine (in the absence of more facts) that Gas-Oil Products could buy the propane from any source it chose, and then have the cars bring it to their distribution

Staffan, I would be amazed to find out that railroads bothered to repaint the bottoms of floor boards on a box car. They may not even have bothered to repaint the steel underframe, except

Gas-Oil Products had two home points -- Oxford, PA and Miami, FL. -- which were lettered on the cars.  The Oxford distributor was on the PRR's Octoraro Branch.  Freight on the branch came through

Seeing Mr. Glow's decals for an orange tankcar, and the Atlas scheme for Hercules Powder got me off my duff to ask a question about a tankcar I recently bought. It is lettered for Hercules Powder but

Bob There's probably a few others who enjoy doing this... :-) http://www.steamfreightcars.com/images/modeling/models/oconnor/dssa17065floor.jpg But Jack's probably the only guy who knows what type

no personal knowledge. It was done at a customer request with his supplied data. Hopefully he or someone can chime in on this one. Jerry Glow

Nice looking car. Any ideas on what routes it would have travelled from loading to unloading point? I assume this car was leased to a distributor rather than to a refiner. Tim O'Connor

Gentlemen,   I'm ready to decal an Overland 8k GATX tank car (basicallythe WWI-era car), and need some help/advice on lettering.    I've noticed in photos--Ted's Tank Car handbook in

What is annoying about this, is that they didn't provide any warning that they had the intention to do this. For example, Kalmbach could have put up a notice on the main page of the index a couple of

Ron, can you post any photos of this? Long time no see! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni PC Technician Information Technology P.O. Box 141000   Nashville, Tennessee 37214 tel:  615.902.1365

One other item of note (I don't have the Culotta article, so I can only guess he has a sophisticated method of what I'm about to describe) is that the IM car sits roughly 6" too high because the

I purchased the index from Data Train of Texas also and still use it today. In searching for information, I always got more results using the Datatrain Index but mine only went to 1994. It covered

Shame on Atlas! Since the second run of these 11,000 gal. cars Atlas has done a very decent job of posting the date a particular style of paint and lettering began to be used by each shipper the

At the request of a customer and with supplied builder photos, I've made a new decal set for the Atlas LPG tankcar prototype which was built in 1947 putting it in the "wheelhouse" of this group.

There is at least one Kalmbach employee who frequents this list. How about a response on this subject? Also did you guys notice how easy it is to TRIM your responses so a person doesn't have to

Jim, There are two "B" end photos of composite BX-58's on page 106 of John C. Dobyne III's Santa Fe Boxcars 1869-1953, a Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society publication. One car is