Brian Carlson asked: The General-American Airslide was a proprietary design with special hatches. I don't see why the Jack Frost cars would have different hatches. All an Airslide needs to be

Or do until they've been on the layout for a few years. I washed some loads from our club layout recently. We then began hauling coal instead of gravel. The dust is a killer. SGL Yes,

I've noticed big variations in quality of Sunshine kits for a number of years in appearance, fit and instructions. I think this is due to different men making the masters. This is kind a a shadow

Hi Tony and others, I just noticed that Tony was on line now and had just posted my inquiry on the Espee site. Please forgive the duplicate posting. I'm modeling 1926 and in looking at pg. 83,

But radial is so much easier to type than circum... whatever. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon www.sunshinekits.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Jim Gates wrote: Good point, Jim. That situation also means that lots of pretty old tank cars were pressed back into service, so one could justify some fairly elderly cars as well. Tony

Gordon, A Standard Oil Distributor in North Carolina in 1942 would be part of the Standard Oil of New Jersey system. See http://www.us-highways.com/sohist1941.htm. So the facility would have an

Hi All, I received 2 of those messages today and 1 last week..... Bob Slavinski ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Sat, July 10, 2010 1:04:01 PM Subject: Re: [STMFC]

Brian, The GACX 42380 leased to Jack Frost Cane Sugar had the standard hatch arrangement used on other Airslide cars. Builder's photos of this car will be published in my Part 3 RP CYC article on

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Kurt Laughlin wrote: You're entirely right, Kurt, and I've reflected on this too, but so many people use "radial" that I'm afraid I've slipped and said so too on occasion. At least there WERE

Gordon Andrews wrote: You're right, Gordon. The tank cars serving all the various Standard Oil companies around the country at the time you're modeling were from Union Tank Line, lettered

Gene who please? Not me. Gene Green

John, No need to worry about going to jail for your comments. It is perfectly acceptable to criticize a manufacturer's PRODUCTS. Indeed, we encourage comments on accuracy, fine-ness

Folks, Please do not click on the link in today's STMFC message that was sent w/ no subject. It is SPAM, sent from a STMFC member's computer. Messages from that

B ryan,            You can find a lot of these on the fallen flags website. Fred Freitas ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Sat, July 10, 2010 11:17:23

Tim, do you have a URL link or source to BAR 5387 in the SoM scheme? That would be an interesting car to model. bb

My layout has a location for a Standard Oil Distributor. (Sanborn Map shows four vertical tanks so it wasn't huge. My time period is 1942. Location western North Carolina. Needless to say I don't

Steve, why not? BAR and MEC were Class 1 railroads and their cars travelled all over the country. The MEC never used the red/white/blue "State of Maine" scheme. The BAR applied it to some 1932 cars

Eric, That was quite a discovery - not only finding the two steam-era boxcars in 2005, but also seeing that BAR still had some of the ARA cars in service in the post-roofwalk billboard car number