Thanks for that info, Tim, even if it does eliminate any justification for G&W rollingstock with my 1948 cut-off date. Leo Landry is one of the nicest people one could meet but the poor

Ed - All of our SS box cars that have Z-bars have undercuts. In general the undercuts are 0.10", just enough to give the proper look. A scale Z-bar would have a cross section too thin to survive

Yes, the Speedwitch K104 series for the 36' Fowler Patent boxcar has undercut z-bars for the side bracing. The sheathing for the master was obviously built board-by-board as well and it's a beautiful

Doug said: the early 50's the roads will be Milwaukee.CNW,CB&Q 0>etc . I'll agree with Tony about the time frame issue! The 1950s time frame for example would also include the Red Caboose welded

Thank you Jeff.It won't be the first error I have found on wheel reports.I was even more confused when I checked a 1949 ORER.The design seems to be very similar a Pennsy covered hopper.Thanks again

Armand, Looks like the Rutland wheel report is incorrect, 70276 was an N&W HC-3 covered

Thanks for your response. It answers two of my questions. As for the third, you made me go back and take another look. On the N&W boxcar, the roof, ends, and sides look like dark masses. There is

I believe it's practically impossible on an injection molded single sheathed boxcar to reproduce the undercut to model the Z-bars that were commonly used. But I'm wondering if this is also the case

Don The Genesee & Wyoming owned no freight cars at all in 1959, but by 1963 they had acquired 100 40' box cars w/ 7' doors (from ?) and 50 unique roll-up roof covered hoppers (rebuilds). By 1965 they

It's too bad the vessel in the background isn't more visible; it *could* be related to <http://www.maritime.org/wapama.htm>; hordes of similar vessels plied the Pacific Coast of North America and

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Tony ' You are right about the time span. I was thinking that i could use the 8K tank cars to model the 30's to the early 50's . I am a novice when it comes to railroad freight i'm learning by

Doug Kinder wrote: Doug, your goals sound good except maybe for the time span. To paraphrase Tony Koester, if you model 1930 to 1950 you are just modeling 1930 badly. What he means is that

Hmm ... the 1/53 ORER shows N&W 67000-series cars as hoppers. Could the series be 47000? Those were boxcars, of two different types. What do its roof/ends/sides look like? T&P 40000-40499, '37 AAR

I want to say thank you and sorry for not posting my name with my post . First off the time frame i would like to depict would be early 30's to the early 50's the roads will be Milwaukee.CNW,CB&Q etc

Last night I was looking at a video taken on the C&S in Denver in the late 1950s. I saw a few boxcars I would like to get more information on, and identify possible models of them. I was able to get

My original message was written months ago; I'm in permanent jail. Yes, I agree it's better to seal all surfaces. What about silk screened car sides like the one included in the old Mainline kits?

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Tim, This is a neet photo. The car has had some modifications to it as it does not directly match the DRGW 70000 series cars or the smaller cars that were similar to the 70 ton cars only shorter. I

That's a nice photo illustrating the versatility of general service gondolas. Try loading that lumber in a hopper car! Also, how many details can you see in this photo that would send an OSHA