I'll add that there are numerous photos of these and similar cars in the Philadelphia area, so not all the ones handed off to PRR went to NYC <G>. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn,

SAL watermellon ventilated boxes came up the Chinchfield thru the C&O's Russell yard and on up to Chicago and back again in the summers of late-40s thru mid-50s. Al Kresse

John Corns authored two books on the Wheeling & Lake Erie; W&LE vol 1, and W&LE Vol 2. Both volumes contained images of railroads that were merged into the W&LE and a few imags of the NKP years. Both

I agree with Tim and Bruce. A state-of-the-art PRR X31A is way overdue. They were seen everywhere, lasted into the 60's, were painted in a number of schemes, and numbered in the thousands right to

I don't know about any WLE series, Joel, but there was considerable coverage in word and photo in John Rehor's "Nickel Plate Story". Mike Buckelew

GENTLEMAN:Wasnt(Isnt)there a series of books on the history of the WLE before and after the NKP take over??? Thanks Joel Norman

Folks; The G31's were painted just like the Tangent model, as-built. All initial paint and lettering were identical, but for the builders' stencils, where applied; The "w" in a circle came

Lee, Those watermelon cars did get around. There are several photos in Richard E. Prince's book RICHMOND-WASHINGTON FAST FREIGHT LINE of them in RF&P trains. Apparently they came off the ACL or SAL

Dean, no 8K gal. AC&F Type 21s were built new for UTL, so the cars in the 77000 series were acquired second hand. They were on the UTL roster as early as 10/38, so you're okay there, but not

On Santa Fe's Alma branch Burlingame had about 2,000 people in the 1940s and three bulk oil jobbers. Eskridge with a population of about 550 had three. Alma with about 1200 people had two oil

Dean: Kaminski's ACF tank car book shows numerous ACF Type 21's on archbars. One model that I know P2k did was SUN OILS. However, I believe the UTLX cars were acquired second hand when UTLX purchased

You mean not complete "without" them don't you ?

I have a couple of P2K tank cars (8,000 gallons) to build, and was thinking they might be a good way to show off the Tahoe arch bar trucks, with semi-scale wheels. These are in the UTLX

I found a photo of a stack of Mellon's and downloaded it. Then re sized so the Mellon's were almost 12" in diameter. Cut them out and glued to sides of door way. I've got a photo posted on the CofG

Fred, There's a photo of restored W&LE caboose 911 at nkphts.org: http://www.nkphts.org/preservation/pictures/cabooses/wle0911jpg.html This is in the yellow scheme with black lettering, but the red

Lee: In one of the commercially available videos or DVD's there is a shot of one with the ventilator door in place running eight cars behind a Cab-Forward. Paul C. Koehler _____ From:

I have a friend who is building one of the Smokey Mountain CofG ventilated box cars and would like to build it for watermelon service. He'd like to know if anyone has experience modeling the

Brian lives near Niagra Falls. Make that a pickle BARREL... Ray Breyer

Brian Carlson wrote: Sorry I can't join you, Brian. I've always wanted to do a trip in a pickle. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA

I am starting to pack for Naperville. this year I am bring the NKPHTS Company Store to the train show on Saturday and will probably sell out of my room also. In addition to the NKPHTS stuff I am