Hi Ed, I would never have thought of that! I'm sure a kitbash of that sort would gather a few comments indeed! I would be fearful to run display the model without having a photo of such a car on me

Speaking of tarriffs... I've been looking for tarriffs that would cover the Sacramento switching district for the SP and/or the WP for 1950 - but also going back to the 30s. I've tried the

to build as they are definitely quite unusual. half" cars that Ed described. I think you're right about the door Claus; maybe I was thinking about cars with single doors. I think all agree -

Lenny Ohrnell wrote: For the 1950s, the tariff in force was no. 15, but I'm sure all the tariffs prior to and up to no. 18 also included these matters. Those tariff books are around 500 pages

Steve, I think I would go with the KFa. While the KY class may have been a "horse car", it was quite common to move horses in regular single deck or convertible (running as single deck) stock

Andy, Not exactly. There were 25 K7 cars were built new based on the X23 boxcar. The K7a cars were converted from X24 automobile cars. But not correct for his period. We keep lobbying for this

Jerry, Another cause of fires in addition to a heater coming unfastened and tipping over as you said was the failure to shut off the circulating fans. I had one of each a heater turned over and

There are several published photos of the W&LE 27000 series. A carbody in a junkyard is pictured in MM 12/85 p28. The Rensselaer website has a discussion and links to five

Steve, There were 25 K7 stock car, all built for the Vandalia RR subsidiary of the Pennsy. They were the stock version of the X23 box car design. The K7A design didn't come along until the

You are right.... the Pennsy takes up 33 pages in my ORER so I did miss some stock cars including the K8. So here is a revision of PRR stock cars in 1926. Ke 1 car Kf 174 Kfa 2,153 Ky

Thanks, Tim. Your response came as a surprise, as I had intended to e-mail Ron directly but obviously I screwed up and sent it to the whole list. Anyway, that's a model I'd like to have, so I'll

Richard This is the only 50 foot car so far (AFAIK) -- #5260 http://ribsidecars.com/ribsidecars_014.htm Tim

Steve, As far as I know the PRR had only one K7. All the rest were K7a's. The difference is in the convertible second deck. The K7 did not have one. And, yes, I think the BLI car is an excellent

John, Thanks!!!, some plastic rods and glue and I should have a bunch of them to sit around on a dock.   Michael Bishop

I have a print of W&LE 27439, in disreputable condition but apparently still in revenue service, at Toledo, OH in 1948. It's from the Howard Ameling collection. Richard Hendrickson

Hi Claus, I've got photos of 27201, 27342, 27439 and the builder's photo of 27998, not to mention at least half a dozen shots of these cars in NKP MOW service. I'm not sure where the photos

Michael, I Googled: vintage Preco heater, and found two for sale with pictures...one on eBay, one on Craigslist: The one on eBay: http://tinyurl.com/dkozxp The one on

Hi Ed and list members, Ed Mines wrote: I've always thought these W&LE single-sheathed box cars would be fun to build as they are definitely quite unusual. Altho the ones I have seen were

I think we may be in violent agreement. Any truck will tend to rack somewhat as it enters a curve. Up until the introduction of spring plankless trucks, the two sideframes were held in alignment by

Thanks to all for the greet info on the potato shipping. Does anyone have or know where I can find a picture of one of the heaters that the Santa Fe might of used. Michael Bishop