Does anyone know of any modeling information on this lettering scheme?I was checking it out in Ed Hawkins' RPC Vol. 3. page 15. I don't recall of any decals or dry transfers for this car. Thanks in

Thanks for the suggestions folks. Also heard about trying to burn a hole in the resin with a resistance soldering rig ( don't own one). Chuck Hladik

This thread should die but will add one more comment. At any given Coast auction meet there are probably hundreds of "blue box" kit and cars available. Built up cars probably go as high as a dollar.

I second this. I dont know how many youngsters I saw picking up blue box kits at local shops. I didnt ask but I will assume it was because of price and their level of expertise. What better way to

Gize, I agree with the breath of both Jerry and Robert's arguments and I do think that loosing Athearn Blue Box kit will hurt the market a bit in selection of products in kit form Others will

Hi Richard, To be fair, I should have worded it a little better and said that I was "starting to work on a more definitive list". I've already pulled the Wabash cars from the list, and added the

I'm sure there are fortunes to be made by anybody building freight car models ;) Is it Westerfield that has the fleet of gold-plated Rolls-Royces? Certainly for the small market STMFC represents, the

Although I agree with the negatives about Athearn's Blue Box kits, they do provide a basis for lesser experienced modelers than this audience to learn and hone their modeling skills. I can't see the

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Nice recovery, Richard, but I was responding to your comments, which I guess I should have quoted at more length. You said: which lasted into the early '50s, but

Everyone who's trashing Blue Box cars will get broad agreement from me, BUT I have to point out that for SP modelers the tank car is a godsend. Now of course it requires work (and both Richard

I am of course, perfectly aware of the SP's small fleet of ex-EP&SW USRA gondolas. However, the original inquiry was about cars that lasted long enough to be plausibly modeled in the 1650s, and

Tony is correct about this. In fact, the internal diaphragms were shaped exactly like tank ends - because, in fact, that's what they were. IIRC, someone a couple of days ago assumed that the

Patience, Tim - - though Lord knows we've all been waiting patiently for this for a very long time. One is coming, with the tooling far enough along that a model is almost certain to materialize,

Just so, Tim, as I think was sufficiently obvious. Athearn's recent steam era freight car models are excellent, and I can claim some small credit for some of them, having provided photos and

I'd bet that the insertion of new bulkheads was done by removing the rivets on one end head and then re-riveting it after bulkheads were installed. One reason railroads liked riveted construction

Richard Hendrickson wrote: As so often happens <g>, Richard has a hard time remembering the SP freight car fleet. I would call your attention to the data in the table on page 68 of my gondola

I wish to second that motion!   Mark Morgan  

Bob I don't know, and I didn't know they planned to do the M-53, but good grief, why can't we get a good high quality plastic kit? If Wright Trak does it, that makes what - 4 - different vendors

--- In STMFC@..., Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote: Post-1960 modelers have been > deluged with excellent models from Athearn, while pre-1950 modelers > have been largely ignored...

Richard Hendrickson tosses out the baby w/ the bathwater... :-) I suspect you really intended that comment to refer specifically to the old Blue Box kits and not to more recent Athearn models?? Or