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Kurt Laughlin wrote: You're entirely right, Kurt, and I've reflected on this too, but so many people use "radial" that I'm afraid I've slipped and said so too on occasion. At least there WERE

Gordon Andrews wrote: You're right, Gordon. The tank cars serving all the various Standard Oil companies around the country at the time you're modeling were from Union Tank Line, lettered

Gene who please? Not me. Gene Green

John, No need to worry about going to jail for your comments. It is perfectly acceptable to criticize a manufacturer's PRODUCTS. Indeed, we encourage comments on accuracy, fine-ness

Folks, Please do not click on the link in today's STMFC message that was sent w/ no subject. It is SPAM, sent from a STMFC member's computer. Messages from that

B ryan,            You can find a lot of these on the fallen flags website. Fred Freitas ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Sat, July 10, 2010 11:17:23

Tim, do you have a URL link or source to BAR 5387 in the SoM scheme? That would be an interesting car to model. bb

My layout has a location for a Standard Oil Distributor. (Sanborn Map shows four vertical tanks so it wasn't huge. My time period is 1942. Location western North Carolina. Needless to say I don't

Steve, why not? BAR and MEC were Class 1 railroads and their cars travelled all over the country. The MEC never used the red/white/blue "State of Maine" scheme. The BAR applied it to some 1932 cars

Eric, That was quite a discovery - not only finding the two steam-era boxcars in 2005, but also seeing that BAR still had some of the ARA cars in service in the post-roofwalk billboard car number

The more I think about this, if only a couple cars in a train had their doors open it would be rememberable. I watched a DVD on the RI in the 60s a few days ago. With an hours worth of trains rolling

I found BAR 5403 in Bradford, PA back in 2005 and took a few images. They are posted here: http://www.hansmanns.org/relics_of_rails/bradford_boxcars.htm Eric Eric Hansmann Chagrin Falls,

Bill Kelly wrote: Bill is correct about dome steps and platforms. But ALL running boards had to be "other than wood" after 1944 for new construction. That 1844 AAR order does not state

I vaguely recall this came up before in discussions of the Atlas 11,000 gallon ICC 105 tank cars, as the model's prototype was built 1947-1951 but some of them had open grid running boards. Tim

YES Some BAR cars received this scheme . Ted's book shows three 5061 (photo 7/1955), 5369 (no photo date), 5523, (photo 6/58) Only 5061 is a square corner car. MEC didn't participate in the State of

Guys-- I never thought that I'd have to pay such close attention to the P&L scheme of a road the size of the BAR or MEC. Which leads to another question-any chance that either roads' 1932 cars would

The correct date for the mandatory use of metal running boards, dome steps and dome platforms on tank cars built new is 1 January 1948. Rule 3 paragraph (r) (7) of the AAR Code of Rules for the

Many BN cars received from the predecessor RR's have stenciling applied to the center sills with the former number (such as "former CB&Q 52013"). Most of the time, just one stenciling per car, so

i meant to post this last week, but never got around to it. The Grapevine Vintage Railroad has a few freight cars as a 'tourist attraction' at the Grapevine, Texas, station and one of them is PCX