Group,I am seeking information as to the type and capacity of the following tank cars :GATX 32071 ,4251 :SHPX 25306 ,3285 : UTLX 99988 ,92725 :PGX 54 :PQX 54.Any help will be appreciated.Armand

CDs. what you are looking for other than by labor-intensive means. Hi Claus This is superb! Thank you very much for doing this and making it available to us all. Best wishes, Larry Ostresh Laramie,

Stephan, I hope you won't take Richard's criticism personally and leave this group. Richard is a actually a gracious gentleman, and is very generous sharing his vast collection of photos, data, and

I'm relatively new here, and posted the first message in this thread. Since my first kitbashing project is (was?) to be a rebuild of an Varney boxcar that I built in the 1950s, I had doubts about

--- In STMFC@..., "jmsmith871" <jmsmith87@...> wrote: in part.... > > There are some HO boxcar kits that I assembled in the 1950s that are > now in poor condition. I would like to

Robert Federle wrote: Read the goals of the list. This group is specifically NOT just to have "Fun" doing what we want. It is about prototype freight cars, and of course you may have noticed

Sure did, and specifically in Tacoma. See: http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/southsound/southsound.asp?now=26-June-2001 Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla. produced. inspection, coast cars least, by

I agree. With the cost of some moddels today what better way to learn and practice technique than to dig out an old car and see how prototypic and / or realistic you can make it. I have been an

wrote: Richard: I apologise for my sensitivity and my heated remarks but I was simply responding to a fellow who asked about using old fifties kits for modelling purposes. My silly old tank car was an

I agree with John. Sure some old models are not accurate but modelers can still learn from them. It's good to know what is wrong, what is right, and why we care. And looking at Stephan's model, well,

Right, the only purpose is to discuss exactly prototypical and dead on model freight cars, which of course don't exist, so where does that leave us. It is a matter of degree, and yes the goal is to

Atlas did two Hooker schemes for the 11k LPG/Ammonia tank, 1067-x are lettered Tacoma and 1074-x are lettered for Niagara Falls (can you say "Love Canal"?). I don't know if either one is prototypical,

Mike, While I think Stephan's response was a little oversensitive, Richard's was, to be honest and even in considering, dismissive and scornful when that was not necessary. Stephan was right in

Stephan, I'm sorry if I offended you. However, let me quote a part of this list's statement of purpose: "Emphasis is to be placed on the study of the prototype with a goal of producing models of

Now that Stephan Parachuk's model is in its photo album, we can see that he did a good job of adding brake rigging, nice trucks, and vertical staff handbrake. His photo angle minimizes visibility of

Ed Sutorik wrote: Hooker's plant in Tacoma, about which I gather you know, is by far the best bet for the Northwest. I seem to remember being told that Westvaco also had a west coast plant. Why

Stephan Parachuk wrote: . . It is now in the photo area. For reasons unknown to me, I am not receiving notice from Yahoo of new photos waiting for approval. That's the good news. Stephan

wrote: Richard: Is there something in what I wrote that makes you believe I don't know it's bogus? I said, "it's kind of silly". Since the photo I sent in hasn't been posted yet how can you be so sure

I bought awhile ago that three car set of tanks that Trix produced. They are very attractive models and I like them; but, on inspection, all the cars are lettered for chlorine service and all are east

I mean I could just as easily have said Missouri Pacific. And then you would have been correct. George Simmons Grandson, Son, Nephew & cousin of MP employees Dry Prong, LA