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

To: <STMFC@...> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 10:43 AM Subject: N&W hopper conversions

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?

New listing. Don't know seller. Dave Nelson ===================== Title: car cyclopedia; The lowest and highest priced listings that match your want are displayed below. 1. Car Builders'

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

That's one of the photos from a teachers kit on what railroads do which I think includes the East & West Railroad photos also. Richard Wilkens

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/imlsmohai&CISOPTR=3613&CISOBOX=1&REC=18 - Steve Hedlund, Everett, WA

There was(is) a company called, I believe Stran-Steel that made nailable material. CJ Riley   Yes, the diagram for the GN 6000-6499 says "Flooring__NSF__Stra?-Steel" with the

We had some discussion about the AAR standard boxcar and it's revision history almost four years ago. Here might be a good place to start

Hello Chuck, Like you, I remember the salt traffic comong off the G&W quite well, particualrly into Claremont, NH and Middlesex, VT but when did this really get under way???? I do not recall

That's my understanding. Richard Hendrickson