If anyone knows how to reach John Franz (may be related to Ivan Franz) please let me know off list. Thanks. - Al Westerfield

Ed Hawkins has already noted a few instances where there were visible structural differences. Aside from that, I defy anyone to tell the difference visually between a 10'4" and a 10'6" IH AAR box

ARmand, C&O 3000-3299 ACF blt 1940 Roffs: Murphy Improved Solid Steel #15 Guage PM 83500-83649 GATC, PM 83650-83799 P-S (GRECO doors) and PM 83800-83999 ACF blt 1941 Roofs: Murphy Improved Solid

The dates on some Paul Dunn negative sleeves are bogus. At times they conflict with the reweigh date in the photo. original envelopes, I can say that Paul?rarely put color data on the envelopes.

Brian, Sorry for the extra bandwidth, but after sending my reply I realized that the IM model (having ends with round corners) cannot be used to accurately represent prototype cars with

Kurt, The Keith Jordan article in MM IS the type 21 underframe, but it is not the "War Emergency" car. It is now ably represented by the P2k 10,000 gallon car, so the Tichy kitbash is

Brian, To answer your question, it depends. The IM model can reasonably accurately represent nearly all cars listed in the roster. Cars built for Erie and EJ&E are considered exceptions and cannot

I've been looking over Ed Hawkins Modified 1937 AAR roster on the Steam Era Freight Car Web Site, and noticed the inside height varied from 10' 4" to 10 6". I know IM has an HO model of the Modified

Kurt, Folks, If you look in the archives, you will find that Russ Pinchbeck wrote an article on "Canadian Car & Foundry's "War Emergency" 10,000 gallon tank car" Railroad ModelCraftsman, July 2002

Can anyone tell me which roof types were on the following cars : C&O 3200s ,PM 83600s ,Erie 82500s ? armand Premo

Sunshine Models with its XM-29 boxcar, suggests the use of "A combination of Badger Dark and Light Tuscan Oxide Red is an approximate match." gary laakso south of Mike Brock

Can someone suggest a good paint brand for CB&Q's mineral red? I also like this color in the link, any idea what it is?

Thanks Richard. KL

Kurt, the modeling article never materialized, for reasons I can't recall at the moment, though I did, in fact, build a couple of models using the Tichy kit as a basis. Yes, USG-A tank cars were

Many thanks Joseph. Guess I should try the archives more often. Pierre Oliver

If I read archive message #54605 correctly, it should be black. Joseph Jacques pierreoliver2003 <pierre.oliver@...> wrote: So the questions for today is; What colour is the

Looking my files I have two RailModel Journal articles on prototypes for the Tichy USRA tank car, both by Richard Hendrickson. Part I was 10/90, Part II was 4/91. At the end of Part I it was

Please, excuse that misaddressed message. Staffan Ehnbom

Hi, I want to do the RR roman scheme and I have the decals for that but just do not know where to place them beacause the diagram sheet I have only has the chinese scheme. Can someone send me a