Steve, What is there to think? Pierre has not yet produced anything under the Abacus brand yet. I have high hopes that his models will be equal to Speedwitch, or perhaps better. Paul Lyons

Your thoughts on Abacus Models, gentlemen?   Steve Lucas.. “When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to

Chet, The only paint specs I have located for DT&I gondola cars were for series 9100-9299, built 7-52, AC&F lot no. 3607. Entire car painted black with white stencils. Regards, Ed Hawkins

In a personal communication with Jim Hediger at MODEL RAILROADER (Jim is a well known DT&I modeler, and I believe his family worked for the DT&I), Jim -with his permission- states the following: Jim

STMFC, Reading had 4 series of 52'-6" drop-end gondola cars (railroad classes GHH and GHJ) built in equal numbers (500 each) by Bethlehem Steel Co. or by the railroad in 1941-1942. The car no. series

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO Chet; All my photos show DT&I gons in black, but I could swear I had one in red; like PRR FCC shade red. Ed; Were those DT&I "G31 clones" (9100-9299)

Gentlemen, Were the DT&I 7000 series gons painted freight car red during their entire life, or were they painted black during some period. I am mainly interested in 1951. I knew they were FCR in the

As mentioned earlier, Bethlehem's main freight car facility was the Cambria plant in Johnstown, PA. Corporate simplification in the early 1920s brought about the dba change from Cambria to Bethlehem,

Gentlemen In the Rooney Bin I have posted a couple pix of a 1922 wreck at Lavic CA which lies east of Barstow on a sharp curve (still there). The pix show end views and details of the subject AT&SF

Al I will be working on the hotel asap. We made arrangements with one last year and it worked fine. We will be doing the same this year. DB 2011 Central Ohio Prototype Modelers Meet, May

Dennis, Sounds great.  Hopefully, it gets above freezing by then.  Any special arrangements with local hotels as yet?  Great that it doesn't conflict with the C&Os Spring Work Session this

I believe they got more aggressive with C&O after WW2 (probably had an open military vehicle assembly line?) in the open car business.  They also had their own line of high strength low alloy steel

Bill, Bethlehem Steel sure did!  For the C&O Rwy it was ACF Huntington first, Raceland Car Shops second an Bethlehem Steel third for building hopper cars. Al Kresse

Don't forget about Bethlehem Shipbuilding, which built passenger cars until 1939 or so. Keith Burkey

Guys I inadvertently typed the wrong dates for the meet. May 19-21 are the dates for the meet. Sorry for the confusion on my part. I need a break from good ole NS. Denis Blake 2011 Central Ohio

Due to a major scheduling conflict with Mothers Day of all days, we have decided to move the Central Ohio Prototype Modelers Meet to a date 2 weeks later than the planned date. It is now scheduled

Bill, Bethlehem Steel was the car builder. No subsidiary that I know of. Most of the Bethlehem facilities in Johnstown, PA were associated with the construction of rail cars to one extent or

Bill Welch asked: The predecessor company was Cambria Steel Co. purchased by Bethlehem in 1923. Bethlehem also supplied freight car "kits" to railroads to be completed in the railroad car

Thanks Tony and Richard. In fact I have an ad from TCI&RR Co. with a picture of an L&N example of one of their 1000 cars that were basically clones of the the USRA 40-ft composite gon, sans the

According to Wikipedia, Bethlehem Steel was one of the largest freight car manufacturers from 1923 until 1991.  Their plant was at Johnstown PA. Tom Warne