That was Intermountain, and it hasn't been released yet. Richard Hendrickson

Related question, maybe: Which manufacturer was it, that announced a War Emergency boxcar last winter? I vaguely recall seeing a test shot at Cocoa Beach ... has it been released? -- Al Brown,

Dave Evans writes: < very big snip> "A lot of anthracite was used for east coast heating, so I doubt small mine operators would have been trying to sell a few loads of hard coal to California

Tom, I don't know about any of that, but Bill McClung did notify us this week that the undecorated 57' PC&F refrigerator car kits were ready to ship -- direct from RC. Tim O'Connor

The July RMC "Industry News" column mentions the Red Caboose - InterMountain partnership discussed here recently: InterMountain will be responsible for manufacturing and distributing Red Caboose

Steve Lucas wrote: Steve, I don't know much about either of the Canadian roads' lettering. Were they really fonts, or is this a shorthand for railroad- designed lettering? Tony Thompson

Bobby Pitts has done a model of the bromine car. Seeing that tiny jewel amongst his collection of rail whales is pretty amazing. Bobby's display of tank cars is one of the highlights of Bob Harpe's

Hi Ben,              If you need something while sitting in the sand pile, just post me a note off group and i will try to get it for you. Fred

I know someone who just finished the Rutland Railroad Historical Society's site. He's a web guy and might be interested in taking it on if there was interest? Alan -- -- Alan

Tim-- The C-D-S sets were very useful for most Canadian cars. But they often used generic fonts for the dimensional and weight data on CN cars. CPR used a proprietary font in the steam era known as

As life has a way of doing, Rob has been under a lot of "outside influence" which has been in competition for his free time for well over a year now. The company he works for is located in Cedar

In that message, he set up another email address and asked people to send him material for the site. Did anybody do that? I'm a relative newbie, so unfortunately I didn't have anything to

Spammers don't pick sites to pick on; They have tools which discover which sites are vulnerable automatically. Unless you or your provider have time to actively administer the software used to run

It is always interesting to read the STMFC digests, even more so with the current discussion threads of "Prototype for new resin kits" and "Why so little discussion on coal car models?" We have a

John Golden wrote: "Are you doing any modeling over there?" Nothing fancy - no resin kits and a few styrene model detailing projects. Here's what I brought along: Walthers/Train-Miniature X29 basic

Rob Adams took over the site. See message #72908. Paul Seattle, WA

As a follow up to a previous discussion I was able to order Champ's station symbols and dates. I have plenty of their capy data scraps, so I guess I'll be in business. Clark Propst Mason City Iowa

Coal cars can be either FB gondola or HB gondola cars.  If you had amechanical car dumper, a simple FB gon was the way to go . . . hopper cars were just more flexible. Al Kresse

I have asked him and he said that he had someone in mind.  I am still up for the task.   Dennis

Alan, I seem to recall that someone did take over the site; I can't recall who it was; Ted had indicated with his Speedwitch Media obligations, he really didn't have the time to maintain the