Michael, Per my copy of GN Color Guide to Freight & Passenger Equipment by David Hickox, this is a single car as you noted made of 2 1929 Siems Stemble Co. flat cars. They were combined in 1966

Tony I just looked up Media Mail rates -- to ship 20 lbs of books from California to Massachusetts is less than $10. I always ask for media mail when ordering books, if it's available from the

At the following URL a photo of two Great Northern flat cars is shown. I know the photo was taken in 1969 nine years after this groups cut-off date but the two cars look to be 40' flats from sometime

Rich Orr wrote: For the lighter packages, yes, but NOT true in general. In book shipping, we look to see where the "crossover" is with UPS, often around two or three books. Tony Thompson

Generally, USPS parcel post is the least expensive. I ship everything by Priority mail with tracking. Rich Orr

In addition to weight of 13 oz, a first class package cannot be longer than 12" in any dimension. First class is the cheapest way to go whenever possible! Priority Mail/Fixed Price boxes are all 12"

Based on STFMC messages over several years, this guy should be on the 10 Least Findable People List, somewhere below Osama Bin Laden, but (nowadays) somewhere above J.D. Salinger. Scott Pitzer

Ed & Group, In the mid-1970s -- well into the future for this group -- the Kansas City Railroad Museum requested a flatcar from the KCS to use as a stage for a weekend event. The car we received was

Single car shipping, the goal should be to keep the weight below 13 ounces, above that there is a big increase to Priority Mail, and about $2.00 more. 1st class is also non-zone rated, which means a

Ed Mines asked: "Can you guys recommend the most economical way to ship kits? I'm shipping a P2K gon in it's original box and 2 Athearn gon shells. The P2K box is a little longer than usual so I put

Has anyone else seen a flat car with floor boards missing? In revenue service? In the steam era? About 1980 I saw a car like this in a small train switching my then employer GAF. We were not the only

In a message dated 9/28/2010 8:09:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, STMFC@... writes: _Re: Bob Liljestrand's (aka Bob's Photos) Current Address, Telephone _

Thanks to all who made suggestions. Will concentrate on the USPO and use a minimum sized box. Never had this problem before. Damn P2K box is pretty long relative to other demensions. Ed

I have a 1926 builders photo of RDG gon 25020 (24500-25499) and a 1957 McCoid photo of RDG gon 24198 (23500-24499), both with Taylor trucks. These are 70 ton, 46' IL USRA clone class GML gons. The

Max & Bob, Bob Liljestrand moved to Kentucky several years ago. His current address is P.O. Box 52, Wallingford, KY 40193, phone 606-845-3323. Regards, Ed Hawkins

I have a card from Naperville 2009 that says -- Bob's Photo P.O. Box 52 Wallingford, KY 41093 Tel: 606-845-3323 I sure hope that he is going to be at Naperville this October!  He's the

it's 606-845-3323, P.O. Box 52, Wallingford, KY 41093. Norm Buckhart [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Bob Slavinski wrote: An ancient address and phone, sir. Bob's been located in Kentucky for over two years. I do think he changed addresses again quite recently, so am not sure I have the

Ed, I've been shipping models now many years now using the mail exclusively. I find the rates fair and the delivery times quite acceptable, even to Europe from Canada. Pierre Oliver

While I was mainly looking at N scale, I never saw a 10 panel version of this car from Atlas, can you point to a reference? Don Burn