Larry, these are single sheathed cars, built by Pressed Steel Car as part of a 1000 car lot (583702-584701) from 7-10/29. Many of them ended up as fodder for steel side rebuilds post-war, but

Cyril, that post was a bit misleading. Mather began leasing stock cars before the turn of the century, but the 40'4" IL cars modeled by Life-Like were built in the 1920s and early 1930s and

Tom the CB&Q did not begin using the Chinese Red paint until 1958. I don't believe the leased their Mather stockcars until that time. So the numbers may not have been assigned to stockcars in

If they started building these cars in 1915 (as indicated in the post from the Santa Fe Modelers), does anyone know what railroads leased these for the period from 1915 to 1920? Cyril

Larry FW&D 6000-7200 were added to the FW&D roster in about 1916. They were of identical dimensions to CB&Q XM-18, DS cars built 1911-1914 by Haskell & Barker Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

As you now know from other responses, the models you have aren't appropriate for July 1950. The MSCX reporting marks were used by Mather on cars that were between long term leases, of which there

When looking for some Taylor trucks back in the spring from my local hobby shop, I was told that ECW had closed up shop. Dave Pfeiffer

The Cumberland Northern operates pretty much weekly, and some of the equipment has been doing so for over 50 years now. Just last Wednesday we had the first recorded instance of a metal

Looking at some photos, these seem to be a lot like the Proto 2000 trucks, except for the spring plank. I recall someone once said those were Scullin trucks. Tim O'

Larry, I have four pair of Eastern Car Works #9053 "Bettendorf friction bearing" trucks that have both two-widely-spaced-visible-spring and three-visible-spring details, as well as one pair of their

Tom 50000-50139 were Mather double deck cars leased by CB&Q between 1960 and 1967 from North American Car Corp. The Chinese red colour scheme was introduced in 1958 and was correct for these cars,

Larry Jackman wrote: Larry makes a good point. If you do it weekly, how do you catch lost cars? And doing it weekly makes a huge job, compared to doing it daily. I don't see that waiting makes

See http://atsfrr.net/resources/Sandifer/Clinics/Stk/Mod/P2K.htm All of the road names were accurate at some time, but these cars were leased to various railroads at various times so all road names

I finally dug out all the P2K Stock Cars I have and decided to put them together. It is not too bad, I only had 6 not built. Since they have been stored for a long time ,and I am far more educated

Cars get lost in yards and a 6AM check of every track in town would keep it only to one day. Also Did I tell you about a car they had in a train ready to leave town and they could not find the way

Hi Folks Work is progressing on pinning down the sheathing type (single- sheathed, double-sheathed, steel, other) for box, auto, and ventilator cars listed in the January 1938 ORER. There remain

In a message dated 8/23/2008 12:25:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wakeene@... writes: My question is what amount of operating time/distance are we looking at that will result in worn

Hi Chris, would it be possible for you to provide the pictures a bit bigger ?? The motives deseerve more then 448 by 330, IMHO... best regards Bernd many miles away from any RPM meet...

Here are some more photos of the St. Louis RPM... http://www.pbase.com/cttmopac/2008_st_louis_rpm&page=all In addition, Perry Lambert has phots

Hard to tell from the Fallen Flags image, but I happen to have a 2/59 in-service photo of exactly the same car, DAX 309, thanks to the redoubtable Col. Chet McCoid, which shows the trucks better.