Alan asked: I've posted two shots of my model to the Files section: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/files/Georgia%20RR%20USRA%20box%

Al Did you consider using an ATA carnet depending, of course, on the value of your goods? They are accepted by Customs in most countries including both U.S. and Canada, and remove most issues

Group, I would like to take this opportunity to let you all know that the GNRHS is now selling Reference Sheets to non-members, and accepts PayPal. Previously, you had to join the society to

The NMRA had set up an inexpensive group rate with a professional firm for taking displays and merchandise into Canada - $100 per company. When most dropped out the program was dropped. With the

Kurt Laughlin writes: "I'd suggest that these people propose the new standards themselves and offer them to the various manufacturers, perhaps as part of their normal contacts. The folks here also

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There is no XF type listing in the 1953 or 1972 ORER's. I think the large "XF" stencil used by Santa Fe and a few other roads was more in the way of "advertising" and was not an AAR car type. If "XF"

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Hello Guy, By far, the best overall publication that would cover your, and perhapsothers, interests is "Additionally Speaking" by Laurie A. Flori, ©2005,ISBN: 0-9773635-0-3 which covers the

I've seen photos of cars on trailers on flat cars on the CB&Q and C&NW in Chicago, the CNJ in Pennsylvania, the PRR, and of course it was common on the SP for a time. A 75' PRR/TTX flat car of the mid

As a followup to this and more generally, most early furniture cars had one door that was wider than used on most box cars. Cars with two doors (or "1 1/2" doors)followed later, generally around

Al and all, The funny part of some of these early auopt carriers was the way they were designed. Until recent years when it was sold out to Hertz one of the better known brands of auto-carriers

Ben Hom wrote: Wow! I've never seen you so tactful, Ben. Accurails are indeed single-sheathed with Z-bar braces. After that . . . Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

Al Kresse wrote: Nope. After 1950 it declined sharply, and by 1959 the railroads were carrying under 10 per cent of the new autos. Introduction of auto racks on flat cars in 1959 reversed this

Bruce Smith wrote: There are two photos of this exact thing, on SP, in my Vol. 3 on flat cars, pp. 302, 303, and they are 1959-model cars. But I don't know how rare it was. Tony Thompson

"Buildings" doesn't necessarily mean houses. They could have been surplus Quonset huts or other prefabricated industrial/commercial buildings. KL

It seems to me that there are a number of influential and respected people on this list that are of the opinion that certain (as yet unidentified) standards are needed to help Prototype Freight Car

Interesting how "XF" morphed from "Furniture" to "Food" in later years. In the future for this list. SGL

I don't have my reference material in front of me but I have inspected several cars at the Perris museum and they had a Murphy XLA roof if my memory serves me correctly. Gene Deimling cannot give