I remember visiting Jerry Porter when he was setting that job up. He was agonizing over the lettering - the numbers in particular - and showed me prototype photos with significant variation in the

Nate, Intermountain's ends are W or round corner with no separate square corner ones available. You want the Red Caboose square corner one. Ed Hawkins had a run made back when Jerry Porter still owned

I recently picked up an Intermountain 1937 AAR boxcar kit and I want to build it for a T&P 40000 series model. The MPHS Eagle article states that the cars had square corner posts. Does the

Very interesting. I thought Simmons-Boardman kept a tight leash on their copyrighted material. This is in the fine print at the bottom of the listing page: "Use our scanned images for research or

Was browsing for something else and bumped into this. I don't recall it being discussed before.

Ed Mines writes: Bob Slavinski replies that he is interested and George Frey also replies the same. OK, guys, I have said it at least 50 times, DO NOT send messages about items to sell OR give away

id love some free kits send them to G\ George Frey 1800 W. Culver ave #328 Orange, California 92868-4217 thank you  George Frey Proud member of 1/87 Military

Armand, please contact me off list. Greg Martin

I'd LOVE some free kits....How do I get them from you?.....Bob Slavinski ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Sun, August 8, 2010 2:55:09 PM Subject: [STMFC] free

Would any of you gents like some free kits? It would mostly be blue box specials but maybe you'd be lucky and get an Ambroid ACF covered hopper or an E&BT square hatch covered hopper. Worst case is

Actually, Wayne, that was common practice at most car shops in the days when many cars in service had wood sheathing. It was especially obvious on refrigerator cars, where the new boards painted

As a student working the '59 summer harvest in Parsons, Ks I saw a string of apparently freshly shopped cars at the shops there.  Individual side boards had been replaced and were freshly painted,

I have two kits for sale as a pair at ebay: a Milwaukee ribbed box car and a Texax & Pacific gondola. They are priced to sell with free shipping in the continental United

Courtesy of Chuck Nauman, below is a link to the Ron V. Nixon Collection photo archive at the Museum of the Rockies and a description of the collection. The photo database is searchable by subject

Dean Payne writes some interesting stuff about members, member's message content, member's expertise etc. However, messages containing views on other member's messages and other member's in general

Can anyone point me to some good photos of P&LE gondolas built as composite gons around WWI and rebuilt with extended steel sides? If I'm not mistaken these cars were 46-48 ft. long and have some

Jeff, don't be so hard on yourself. An equally challenged plant employee use and equally inexpensive instrument to set the machine which made the sheet. I'll bet that there's some differences in

Ben, You wrote: "Wow. You really don't know much about..." in response to his use of the word "apparently"?? Geez... what's wrong with writing "Here's a link to some background regarding the

cef39us wrote: I zoomed the image out and yes, the image has been flipped over, the ladders, roofwalk, door guides and brake end give it away... Alan --

Al Brown wrote: Reminds me of the theory that before 1935 or so, the world actually was NOT in color, but in B&W. That's what all the evidence shows, anyway. Tony Thompson Where is Larry