He wants to use a Viking replacement roof, although many modelers don't know, or have forgotten, that all of the early run Proto 2000 box cars (and all of their end-door box cars) have a bogus roof.

Except for the double rivet seams, the P2K cars match the 87100 series. The factory painted cars are in this series. I used one of Tom Madden's roof castings for mine, it turned out well. Tim

... only by modelers who haven't a clue. There have also been published references to corrugated ends that call them "Youngstown" ends, apparently because they look kind of like the doors. I think

The original question and series he's referring to had Viking roofs. Hardly present on a P2K or Athearn hense his question. Jerry Glow

Mark, The exercise that you are entertaining might be better for the 87100 series. Bear in mind that the P2K car is not really suited for either series depending upon the final result that you are

Good question Jerry. In my case I used the Life Like roof and replaced the car sides. You could canibalize just about any roof you want as long as it fits. I'm sure Life Like and Branchline or even

What if anything do you have beside a replacement roof? I bought one from Stan Rydarowicz but the Nov '86 Mainline Modeler article indicates (and shows a pic) that they had double Creco doors. Jerry

Twue, twue. But Birmingham is further to the east. :-) Tim

Actually, the Frisco ran through Alabama into Northwest Florida where its southeastern-most terminal was in Pensacola. A recently repainted 1:1 scale 2-8-2 (converted from a 2-8-0) prominently graces

Missouri produced lead and zinc ore concentrates, lots of cement, fire brick clays, sand of various types, and was a large producer of lime (quicklime). The Frisco ran from Oklahoma to Alabama,

Doug Harding wrote: As long as PFE owned express reefers, some of them had wood ends. There was no "transition" to steel ends except for new construction. I think your friend has zero problem

Steve and Tony, A "cars on hand" report from Forrest, IL on the Wabash, shows three CN and eight CP box cars set out for grain loading on 9-30-52. One of the CN cars was used for brick loading at

A friend asked me: Do you know when the transition from wood end express cars to steel end express car took place? Also, how long were wood end cars allowed for interchange after the transition to

I sent Schuyler a builders photo of these cars off-line. Chet French Dixon, IL

Dennis, I have the PM book in my hand and look at the same company diagram, and yes, it says "Murphy". But as Fritz said, "Murphy" was often used pretty loosely... When I was doing the research

Dennis Storzek wrote: Not sure this description is at odds with calling it a "slough track" though I recognize it's a little more specific. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

Thompson <thompson@...> wrote: But the "sluff" track can be any convenient track. These are specifically placed between the ladders. My best guess is they are, for want of a better name, "hand-off"

Steve Lucas wrote: Steve, in the list of cars in a conductor's time book I've looked at for 1948-1952, I was struck with the observation that in among all the other other cars were two

Don-- I have two of these Roundhouse milk cars, and brake fluid worked well to strip the paint off one of them. The paint came off by scrubbing with an old toothbrush after a few hours'

Many were the roads that kept archbar trucks and K brake systems on company-service cars. Furthermore, unlike within the US, these were NO restrictions on the use of cars equipped with either or both