Thanks, Matt, that does nail the routing. It's similar to what we see routinely for produce reefers. Chris Frissell Polson, MT

Richard: All I have specific to that question is from one wheel report filed in Missoula, MT (4 August 1969, but germane to the discussion despite the late date): CMWX 1009, load of wine, 25 tons,

NYC served the many meat branch houses on the west side high line in New York City. So yes the NYC handled meat, it pretty much had the bulk of the meat traffic to Manhattan/New York City. But it

Both of the lists came out of the same official YVT file. I also noticed the differences between the two. I wish the file had more but that is all I have found. The Yakima Valley Museum has this

I think the new Kadee 70 ton Barber S-2-B is almost exactly right for the SP flats (the prototype had S-2-A-0 trucks, whatever those were). The Red Caboose Barber S-2-A is a decent model too, as

Rich, A picture of MKT 97193 definitely shows a rectangular panel roof. Also, be aware that there are at least two distinctly different looking "dartnot" ends -- for example the ends on the Rock

Bill at Red Caboose informed me that he intends to run some SP F-70-7 flat car KITS this summer, with Accurail "Bettendorf" trucks. These kits have been hard to get the last few years. No word about

Rich, Tony didn't say, so I will add -- I think the F-70-3 can be kitbashed very readily using the Red Caboose F-70-7 flat cars as a starting point. I recall Dan Smith saying he intended to do this. I

Matt Herson wrote: This sounds like a shipper-specified routing. And remember that SP had a very friendly relation with NP, so that connection would have been acceptable. Why the shipper

Have finally located the reference to a CMWX traveling on the NP. The citation is from Russ Strodtz from a posting on his Rail Freight Group. "For example I've got a copy of a bill in front of me

Tim and Gene, Thank You. I have found something that looks similar: http://www.molocotrains.com/freight-parts/ca-0302-freight-car-appliance-kit-ajax-universal-2.html Any suggestions? Mark

Is Champ still selling their decals? I placed an online order last month and did not get a reply. I wasn't sure if it was them or my lack of computer skills. Bill pardie [Non-text portions of this

East of the twin cities? The only major cities east of the twin cities are Milwaukee and Chicago, and one would think wine traffic to those destinations which originated south of the Bay Area

Brian: Matt Herson called it to my attention first, and since I've seen other bits of evidence from photos and wheel reports that in small numbers, but over many years, some of these ex-Pfaudler CMWX

Ben, I'm not in HO scale myself, but you might look for someone who has an Overland Scale Models HO LV caboose to "borrow" to make a mold of the three tiered steps. The HO model had the cast type

Tom, and Brian, you both are no doubt correct about some of the meat going to the NYC. The figures that I had seen from a presentation that Jim Singer did at Naperville a few years ago confirmed that

Roger Hinman wrote: The car numbers shown for WP are also bogus in 1929, and in fact the ORER for that year shows NO express reefers in either freight or passenger entries. Makes me wonder

I just did a quick comparison of the two lists and the only differences are cars for D&RG, MDT, one lot of SLSF and the WP. I was a bit astounded to see 50 MDT cars under control of the REA, but the

The price of Champ should be based on what Walthers got for their decal business...... ....from what I understand, they offered the whole works.... screens, plates, etc... to whoever would back a

Brian, As a young boy I recall standing on the platform of the new Marshalltown depot in the early to mid-Fifties waiting for Number 6 to take us north to Minneapolis. More than once a freight train