Tony: I have tried to, but they look odd. I think Richard has said most steam era modelers need to weather a more of their fleets heavily. Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Tony If you use PhotoShop you can color correct them to get the color you want on those fine PFE reefers. Denis Blake Marysville, OH

And ohmugawd, there's some kind of boxcab diesel switcher behind the curved building over on the left. At least, I think so. What else could it be? Certainly not a steam era freight car, I'll

No, Ed, it's on the right(ish). I guess the foam got to my brain. Ed Edward Sutorik

I do some poking around the site and came up this amazing photo. http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/bedt/BEDTAerialPhoto1949.html Denis Blake North Hamlet Shops, OH

Note that the PFE reefers are so dirty as to resemble the box cars in B&W. How many of you have modeled reefers this dirty? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

Al does excellent decal work all around; I'll upload a photo to my album of an HO Imperial Oil (Esso's Canadian licencee) tankcar lettered using his decals. With the closing out of C-D-S, Al's decals

And it even has the mandatory CN 40' steel boxcar! :) Seriously, it's a nice mix of cars. Steve Lucas.

Paul Kattner wrote: Very nice find, Paul, and aerial shots are always interesting. (I wouldn't call a nice illustration of free-running box cars a "dog's breakfast," though.) I note that only

Also the Soo Line "sawtooth" boxcar one track out from the left end of the near building. Dennis

GREAT picture! I see over on the left one of the GN boxcars with the orange sides. Neat! And over on the left is an SAL 40' double door box (see Red Caboose). And that's just the

This is an interesting photo of the B&O's 26th St terminal in New York which shows a dog's breakfast of boxcars and a few reefers. The AT&SF plug door reefer is especially

Thanks, Richard! And...I just happen to have one of Al's decals on hand. Bill Darnaby Al Ferguson at Black Cat Decals in Canada has an excellent

All Given the fair number of recent comments on STMFC regarding the PRR freight car in Jim Lancaster's image at: http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/cp/cajon_pass_6-64_05_jl_ps.jpg (from his

Bill, the bad news is that Spencer Kellogg sold its tank car fleet to General American in the World War II period and, though it leased the cars back under SKX reporting marks, eventually those

Frank Fertitta wrote: Paint thinner. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax,

I've been using straight xylene for old and new Floquil with no problems Jeff Coleman

Thanks to everyone who helped with this.   Tony, are you talking Lacquer Thinner?   Frank

I can't say since I never saw those cars freshly painted... I once painted an SP 50' combo door box car model (built 1960) with Accupaint Alkyd Brown because it was a good match to a photo of a new

I have started carving on my SC&F Standard Tank car with Spencer Kellogg decals. The photos in the instructions have K brakes which made me wonder if the cars made it to the AB cutoff ('53). I don't