Ah, the old problem of unequal wall section. People who design injection molds have it repeatedly reinforced that unequal wall sections are bad, bad, bad... because they see the results of

Which shows it to have been on a Pere Marquette car in the 54000-54299, 54500-54599, or 55300-55399 series; see Million and Paton, Pere Marquette Revenue Freight Cars, Hundman Publishing,

The best shot of the ends in question is on auction 260351141923,

Quite right, Al, but the Vulcan inverse corrugated end doors were made by the Chicago-Cleveland Car Roofing Co. and had wider and deeper corrugations than the Murphy vertical corrugated auto car

Thanks to everyone for their comments. As I'd written, the issues were confined to two cars. To be fair about things, the car with the sagging one-piece body is an 80' resin fish-bellied passenger

Gene, Steve, and Group, Just dug out my IMWX kit and can pass on the following lettering... Class B-50-21 Numbered 82697 The kit is supplied with both Youngstown and Superior doors (7-panel) to

Rob - Michigan Central used inverse versons on some of its 1916 auto cars, trademarked Vulcan ends. See our kit 7903. - Al Westerfield

Rob, the Pere Marquette car had a four panel Hutchins end. The vertically corrugated end door on the adjacent auto car was a Murphy end door made by the Union Metal Products Co. (later Standard

Gene, According to Tony Thompson's SP Boxcar Book, B-50-20 were built in late 1940 and early 1941 by three different builders (500 each for General American, Pressed Steel Car and Bethlehem) numbered

Gene, A thorough coverage (23 pages) of SP's 1937 AAR box cars is found in Chapter 11 of Tony Thompson's Southern Pacific Freight Cars Volume 4. Answers to your questions are also in the 1937 AAR

There are more photos in the series - this is an interesting view of I think paper rolls inside a CPR car - #260351176657 -------------------------------------------------- Sent: Saturday, January

It turns out there was a whole series of photos of this wreck, the Canadian Pacific Railroad Wreck on Hogback, Lyndon, VT. July 24, 1923. The car that attracted my interest is clearly owned by PM,

Actually, another view of the same car is shown in E-Bay auction # 260351130267 - showing a car number (illegible to me). Rob Kirkham -------------------------------------------------- Sent:

This E-Bay auction (no relation to me) has a train wreck photo showing what are to me quite unusual ends on an automobile car - vertical ribs. Is the car identifiable by that feature? The wide ribs

Sorry but I should have added that I searched the archives and found 3 messages, none of which answered any of my questions. Gene Green

I am looking at a Pressed Steel Car Co. ad in the Oct. 21, 1944 issue of Railway Age on pages 10 & 11. The ad has a B&W photo (What a misnomer that is. It is shades of grey, not black and white.) of

check out the WrightTRAK Mechanical reefer at www.wrighttrak.com Denis Blake

Mark - It required only a new decal and building an old model. You will notice that I have issued only one completely new kit in the last 18 months and that one was promised (and started) over 2

Joel 1. Athearn PFE (plastic) 2. PacificHO-SilverStreak-GoldenSpike FGE/BRE/WFE (plastic) 3. Wright Trak FGE/BRE/WFE (resin kit) Thas it. (2 and 3 are basically the same car.) Tim O'Connor

Gentleman:Who offers in HO a mechanical reefer for the 1955-1960 era? Thanks Joel Norman