Rich - I have the ORER's for May, 1934, and November, 1935: however, I have not found any issue from 1936 for sale. Also have April, 1940 and April, 1941 issues. A.T. Kott

Thanks Richard For now it sounds like my july 1937 entry is the authority for one question and I will write KML about the second. Bill Welch

Thank You Al and Cyril for the interesting information on the cars of Southern Cotton Oil cars, now Norm will have some resources to dig into for help. Cyril if they purchased cars in small lots new,

As another owner of an operating layout with a mixture of rolling stock types, I can honestly say that the LEAST damaged group of equipment on my layout are resin cars. This is followed by the

There's a photo of SCOX 775, an 8000-gallon GATC Type 30, in Culotta, FCRM 2, p65. Southern Cotton Oil 28, 164, and 275, all 6000-gallon cars, are shown in MM 7/98, p 77. Al Brown, Melbourne,

Southern Cotton Oil actually purchased most of their cars new, but in small lots.  They had cars listed as being in service from before 1900.  See the July 1998 issue of Mainline Modeler for some

I am trying to narrow down when two groups of Fruit Growers Express steel rebuilds first appeared in the ORER. Here is what I know about each. FGEX 10850-10999 appeared by July 1937 and was not

This is an amazing review Denny. With two of the upgraded F&C kits, PRR & N&W, I will probably not build one but I do like this engineering and design approach to a kit. I would love an offset twin

Bill, First off, there were no ORER issues between July 1936, and July 1937. The ORER went to yearly July publication due to the depression in July 1932 after being published monthly before

Thanks Bill, maybe this will help Norm track some of them down. Are the three pictures builders photos, perhaps they did purchase some of them new? Can you identify any specific car builder or model

Thanks for the Replies Guys. I beleive i have a good idea of what the kit is like thanks again. Doug Von Kinder

See Message #93398, It may help you. Denny Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento

I haven't had problems with cut levers made from wire. Air hoses are no longer a problem with Hi-Tech rubber hoses! What I see get broken a LOT are sill steps, ladders, brake wheels. And handrails on

The July 1998 issue of _Mailine Modeler_ has a good article about cotton oil tank cars by Cyril Durrenberger. There are 17 photos of various companies cars including three Southern Cotton Oil Co

Tradition?! Pierre Oliver

Jack Burgess wrote: I always thought this was a good guideline: don't touch it unless YOU are a scratchbuilder. I greatly agree with Clark Propst about near-coupler details, air hoses and cut

Norm, I would love to help you with a photo, but I can not. In all my years of tracking down interesting photos of freight equipment I have never run across a picture of any of the SCOX cars. What we

Why do you wait unitl dawn? ;-) Andy Miller

Matt, in July I flew from Bakersfield, Ca. (small airport) to Denver for the Santa Fe Modelers annual convention and took along four powered engines and several freight cars all in my cary on bag and

Bruce Smith wrote: I dispute this, though I have great confidence in FedEx. The package services DO have lots of machinery to handle the boxes and only the most careful and thorough packing