Bob, have any further description for the B&O storage cabinet? I can't quite tell from the photos -- did the cabinet have doors when it was new? You might want to look at those photos again... a

Actually, I uploaded this drawing when we were discussing the Blackstone Models NG cars a couple weeks ago. Try Here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/files/UTL%20Tankcar%20Drawings/ Dennis

I have obtained some undec Atlas HO Hart Ballast cars. I would like to paint these to match some other cars lettered for the Union Pacific. Does anyone know a brand and paint colour that might

Thanks, you've got me looking at X41's for the first time... and I see they have very interesting roofs! And now I see Sunshine has a kit for each of these cars. Cool! Tim O'Connor

Charles, Sunshine resin kits are the only accurate HO Swift meat reefers for the period you mentioned. For the time period: Red Caboose makes an accurate plastic model of a Mather meat reefer. Atlas

Tim: The end door is the difference between and X41 (no end door) and an X41a (end door). As you stated the X41b were single door whereas the X41 and X41a were double door. The X41c was another

Since Ron hasn't chimed in here I'll repeat what I've heard him tell customers at Des Plaines Hobbies..... there are many irons in the fire and a rework/upgrade of the SOO Caboose is on the list but

I have posted two files from John Moore on the Santa Fe Historical and Modeling Society website. 1. Freight Cars not used in Interchange Remaining to be Equipped with "AB" Brakes as of 12-1-52.

81945 is an X41a automobile car with end doors built post WWII (I don't have the exact date but it is between '45 and '48) Rich Orr

Don't know how to download it, but there is a picture of 8 open hopper loads of coke on the back cover of Ed Wolfe's Appalachian Coal Hauler: Interstate Railroad's Mine Runs and Coal Trains. In this

Bruce, why would the 1950 ORER not mention the end doors, nor automobile racks? In fact, there is a note in the ORER (VV) that these cars had an inside height in the center that was taller than the

I think a lot changed with the artificial tree. Not sure when those really took off sales wise in North America, but they were certainly common enough when Schultz did Charlie Brown's Christmas. Of

Likewise, the newspaper article I referenced earlier was of a boxcar load of trees. Rob Kirkham -------------------------------------------------- Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:42 AM To:

Bill,Let me get my oar wet.Wordy instructions just don't cut it.A scale drawing is essential.Photos do help,but most guy rarely read lengthy instructions.Parts should be identified in some

Could someone tell me about PRR 81945 a box car with a dreadnaught end door. It is in a photograph that appears to be in the late 1940's or 50's. I am looking for what era this car would have been in

Scott PRR 81945 in 1950 is a 50 foot double door X41a box car - no mention of any end door. The X41a/X41b series were postwar cars. Many of the X41b's were equipped for LCL and painted in the

Interestingly all photos I have seen show Christmas Trees stacked on flatcars with stakes made from long wood poles complete with bark. Of course these photos date from the 20's and 30's. The trees

I'd a gree that there is a certain metallic sheen to many types of coke, but this tends to disappear when it is seen in bulk. If you want to model coke loads I have had success by dying Woodland

Clark commented: "because they are written just like Stan talks. He did not included (sic) several of the assembly steps" Sorry Clark, too good to pass up... ! (will duck at Cocoa). Sadly, I have

Lou, Thanks, I forgot to add it to my normalizing table. -- Allen Rueter StLouis MO ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 3:42:57 PM Subject: