I included both P&LE and PMcKY reporting marks and lot numbers for same. Jerry Glow

Barry, the decals belong on models not in files : )) Clark Propst

Here's the art work Jerry has on his web site for this car. http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/PLE.jpg Charlie

Would be easy for anyone with Web skills to write a 'robot' that searches the Ebay completed auctions every 15 days and extracts the price data and stores it into a file, such as an Excel

#458 is for a P&LE box car built in 1949 -- CDS lettering sets tend to be highly specific to a prototype

Al Brown writes: "I'm uploading a photo of this car to a new album called "UTLX X-3" in the photo section, currently awaiting our moderator's approval." Photos uploaded to the photo section are

Hi Clark Over this side of the puddle it is a case of buy it when you see it, you may never see it again. Hence hundreds of decal sets, far too many of everything else bar time. Upstairs,

There was an article about the Harlem Transfer by Charles A. Conway in the 2007 Model Railroad Planning. It was a switching layout that fit in a 4'x8' space with sharp curves and only rail connection

CDS did a very nice lettering set for this car -- #457 Tim

Clark Propst wrote Even when I am building cars as fast as I can, it seems to take me forever... assembly is the LEAST time consuming part of the job. 1. research, photos, reading, specs -- 1 to 4

Victor,   The 1948-49 Monon conductor logs I have show WAB to Lafayette Jct, CIL to Louisville in 7000 and 9000 series DTI gons.   I don't have shipper or consignee information, but I know that

From another MoPac modeler - I too did one of those cars. It was probably my first rebuild car, since I did that one before I did the first of the Sunshine rebuilds. I solved the problem of the

We each have our reasons for buying, building resin kits. I would be the last one to deny anyone in the business a fair price. But, here's how I look at it: I have become obsessed with the car's

I have found the answer to my own question, I have a #457 and now know all the differences. Up until a month ago I had massive files of all my hundreds of decal sets, freight cars, locomotives

Is there any significant difference between CDS #457 and CDS #458, apart from the car no, as I have #458, but not 457. Barry Bennett Coventry, England

The kit's instructions include the "Added Modeling Notes" and item 6 has me perplexed and it reads: "6. Substitute the sheperd's crook castings to support the corner walks." What am i suppose to be

Richard - thanks for the NYC information; I built this car years ago when it was first released using the poorly done decals by Tichy. When I saw Jerry Glow had made an improved P&LE/PMcK&Y decals

That's it, thanks. Joe

Interesting discussion! Out of curiosity, has anyone on the list tracked the eBay pricing for finished models of various Sunshine car types over the last year or so? I realize there's a lot of

Joe; How about "The urban scenery of Severna Park".  Model Railroader, December, 1975. Steve Stull