Tim, I do not remember all the details, but Ted Culotta posted a photo of the UF to his old freight car web site. It is still probably there. The car car had four cross bearers-one at each panel

--- In STMFC@..., tgregmrtn@... wrote: All you have to do is ask, your in... Greg Martin If it is not too late, may I be on the instruction list also. Jim Dick - St. Paul

Greg, I'd like a slot for the Information only portion.   John Cizmar 

-Bob, I can't recall who recommended it to me, but I've been experimenting with a easily available material. Lipton teabags. Not the regular paper, but their premium line which comes in little mesh

Denny I hesitate to make any generalizations or assumptions about paint anymore. Without a complete specification from a builder or owner, I think it's all guess work. Looking at some photos of

I have a feeling that the very practical answer to the unsurprising (to me) unpainted bottom of car floor boards is something akin to this: The underframe was finished and painted before the floor

Greg The UP circular shows charges ranging from $160 to $650... And even more interesting, within Chicago the charges can vary almost 300% between different railroads -- UP has a hefty $650 charge

All,   See:   http://steamfreightcars.com/prototype/catalog/mvcmc/mvcmcp21main.html   This interesting photo of a Southern gon in Jeff Koeller's Mt. Vernon catalog led me to wonder if these cars

Paul, I did not know that about the NP cars. What is special about the NP underframes? Tim O'

Keith, you probably already noticed but there is an error on page 233 of the SFRD ice reefer book -- the Rr-35 series is listed as 7029-7058 but it should be 7029-7358. I knew something was wrong

Greetings. I have one of these and while assembling looked on this site and the internet. Found in one photo that the car appears to have a steel roofwalk. I have the frame done and am heading

Richard, Excellent! I'm sure you are right. Some entries for similar destinations in the list use "meat products". Probably depended on who typed up the entries. Fuel dealers have the same sort of

In fact, the doors on the Santa Fe cars weren't unique; they were the same composite doors (corrugated steel lower, wood upper) that were applied to the Alton cars, which in 1947 went to the GM&O.

Tim, Pretty good calculating in "today's dollars" considering that the current circulars say that the railroads absorb the first $300.00 for reciprocal switch charges. These are posted on all current

Ed, So, you're not content with the hot air being expended over reciprocal switching eh? <VBG>. Sure looks like a pair of dirty <GASP>, weathered orange PFE reefers to me. BTW, here's a link so

Gee, that was easy! Wish it was that easy to get to Cocoa Beach! Thanks, Clark

Tim, Interestingly, the real odd version?were the Northern Pacific war emergency cars, which Sunshine did do. Abeit, with the wrong underframe. Paul Lyons Laguna Niguel, Ca

Someone (Gene Deimling?) downloaded a classic Delano photo showing the roofs of some C&NW house cars. Look at those reefers on the right side of the photo. Doesn't that round herald look like it's on

I had a professor in grad school who frequently said "The only people who don't make mistakes are those who do nothing at all." His follow-up to that was "Progress is making new mistakes, not

Clark, All you have to do is ask, your in... Greg Martin