Paul, that was the Alton car as built. Clark Propst

Guys; There were a large number of PRR G31D converted to auto frame service, as well as the G27 mentioned earlier. There are some great photos of leased PRR G31D with WAB reporting marks, in the

Thank You, Richard! We are busy with our daughter's wedding, which means my spending must slow down. Mark Morgan PS at work now Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

Mark, not all of the P/L schemes were bogus, but all of the ones you list were. Richard Hendrickson

I appreciate all the answers and realize that the AC&F book should be on my shopping list. One more question, were all of the paint schemes bogus? My roster has: Union 76 U.O.C.X.

-- In STMFC@..., LOUIS WHITELEY <octoraro1@...> wrote: Earlier than your time period, but the October 1948 ORER lists Wabash gondolas fitted for frame loading: 16 cars in the series

Tnanks for your replies so far. As to the PM, I would think them a direct competitor with the Wabash for that traffic.] The Lafayette-Louisvile, Wab/Monon routing is interesting as my fictional

Steve, With all this "chatter" someone said one of these cars had a Superior door. Can you confirm and do you have a photo? Really just need to know which Superior door. i.e. 7 panel, all equal,

Barry,           If a tv show like hoarders was done on us modelers, we would make them seem insignificant. Fred Freitas 50 years building experience and no end in

Barry, I have the same amount of empty boxes as I did before I built the models. So storage problem never goes away. Good Luck ! Clark Propst

I included both P&LE and PMcKY reporting marks and lot numbers for same. Jerry Glow

Barry, the decals belong on models not in files : )) Clark Propst

Here's the art work Jerry has on his web site for this car. http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/PLE.jpg Charlie

Would be easy for anyone with Web skills to write a 'robot' that searches the Ebay completed auctions every 15 days and extracts the price data and stores it into a file, such as an Excel

#458 is for a P&LE box car built in 1949 -- CDS lettering sets tend to be highly specific to a prototype

Al Brown writes: "I'm uploading a photo of this car to a new album called "UTLX X-3" in the photo section, currently awaiting our moderator's approval." Photos uploaded to the photo section are

Hi Clark Over this side of the puddle it is a case of buy it when you see it, you may never see it again. Hence hundreds of decal sets, far too many of everything else bar time. Upstairs,

There was an article about the Harlem Transfer by Charles A. Conway in the 2007 Model Railroad Planning. It was a switching layout that fit in a 4'x8' space with sharp curves and only rail connection

CDS did a very nice lettering set for this car -- #457 Tim

Clark Propst wrote Even when I am building cars as fast as I can, it seems to take me forever... assembly is the LEAST time consuming part of the job. 1. research, photos, reading, specs -- 1 to 4