Bill, Shay, Even though it was designed for the IM car, I highly recommend Ted's (Speedwitch) FGE set. It can be manipulated to make other number sets and while the Sunshine lettering is OK, next to

The only picture I've noticed was in Railmodel Journal, October 1999, C&NW #143380. The article is from Ed Hawkins and includes appliances information (e.g. type of running boards). Tim

Thanks Richard, Train Shed Cyclopedia #12 shows type 27 cars with the valve as you indicated. So I guess I will fabricate a mounting bracket and mount the valve on the diagonal frame member. Bruce

Tim, I don't know precisely when the change took place, but CNW box cars built by AC&F in 1942 had sides & ends painted Wardway or Glidden Synthetic Paint and roofs painted Sherwin-Williams Reddish

Mystery (to me) solved! Thanks Richard and Brian Bill Welch

The decals come with the aforementioned Sunshine Models kit. Bill Welch

I have had good success writing to their publishers and asking them to forward a stamped envelope with a letter. (Learned this in elementary school, now that I think of it . . .) Also works with

Hi I am looking for picture and information on CNW boxcar series 142100 to 143698 even numbers built by GATC in 1946 for a modeling project. When did the CNW from brownish to reddish

Brian is correct. "RD" was a very common abbreviation in conductor's train books, interchange records, and other documents for "SFRD," and the numbers above are all valid SFRD numbers. Richard

Hello Bill and Group, All of these numbers could be SFRD

Thanks Bill and Bruce, I thought the lack of a side sill on the prototype car was interesting as the few pictures of the cars I had seen all had side sills or were truss rod cars. I saw the Kahns

I guess this maybe plausible but there are entrees for SFRD. I have not had time to check the car numbers however. The RD #'s are 14425, 3535, 8681, 14296, 9459, 31979, 7549. 10385, 31100,

Bill could RD be shorthand for SFRD? Maybe some car numbers match up? Brian carlson

I haven't tried it with Athearn current production, but in the past I have used Walthers decal setting solution, Solvaset, on their cars for this purpose. It takes a little time to soften up the

I have been loaned a copy of a Fruit Growers Express Co. "Icing, Ventilation and Heater Service Record Book" dated May 16-June 2, 1950 and recording the cars iced on the ACL at their Sanford Fla.

Shay, I'm not sure where you got the idea that the IM car was based on the 32100-35999 series FGE reefers (except perhaps IM's erroneous paint and letter). The IM car is supposed to represent the

The InterMountain kit is based on FGE/WFE rebuilds after 1948 from cars with 8 inch sills, originally built beginning in 1926. The car in the photo you are referring to is from the FGE design built

I would like to contact Edward S. Kaminski (ACF book author) and John White (Am Rr Freight Cars authors). I believe John White is down at U of Miami, Oxford, Ohio? E-mail, tele, or old postal

I was looking at some Accu-rail car kits that I purchase a few weeks ago as kit bashing fodder and came upon a wood reefer lettered for FGE and numbered 35204. For some reason this number jumped out

I talked to Martin Lofton yesterday and he was relieced from the hospital and is resting at home. He said he didn't get much sleep there. He sounds great and is feeling good and is talking about going