Got all three numbers today, via a listing on eBay. Good deal, less than retail. Thanks to two off-line responses from this list. I appreciate the help from the list. SGL La vita e breve, mangiate

Schuyler, The Erie cars are located between the ice cream and the manure on aisle 4. Virgil Young Amarillo, TX

Yes, I have several photos of ex-Mather cars with NISX reporting marks, but all from the '60s. And I think I was aware that North American leased stock cars to the NYC just before the Penn

Ben I agree with you about the difference in quality, but Athearn has already released many newly tooled cars in the R-T-R line that are very high quality -- those you mentioned plus a number of

It's like selling manure and ice cream in the same aisle. The ice cream is the refrigerated stuff. Could we pay attention to the original request? Where can I get the ERIE 3 bay car? SGL

Tim O'Connor wrote: "BTW they're not Genesis, just Ready To Roll. Evidently Athearn is discontinuing Genesis freight cars. Some former Genesis cars are being released as R-T-R." This is unfortunate

Schuyler The ERIE GV 2893's had evenly spaced hatches and 70t ASF A-3 roller bearing trucks. If you change the hatches the Athearn car is a very close match, as Ed says. BTW they're not Genesis,

Richard, I have a scan of NISX 167, a 40ft Mather stock car lettered for North American Car Co. I also have a shot of a 50ft rebuild of a Mather stock car, NISX 3147, painted green with a NYC herald.

Ben, That's not what I said. I said the opposite of what you said I said... (say what?) Scott Pitzer

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: "Athearn did these in ERIE paint, gray, with the large ERIE lettering. I was apparently completely preoccupied, probably with something worthless like work, when these came

All I know is that model isn't Genesis. It's "modern state of the (blue box) art." Scott Pitzer

I was reviewing the St. Lious Mercantile listing of AC&F orders for the CPR this afternoon. I obtained photocopies of builders photos they had of Canadian equipment a few years ago. But today I

Yes, I am fully aware of that and also what the differences are (at least some of them). But as you say, best game in town, and it is >extremely< unlikely that anyone will ever do these in

Is there any way to tell a GV-2 from a PS-2 (any capacity) by looking at the ORER data? KL

Schuyler, Just so you are aware, Erie didn't have any 2,893 c.f. PS-2s. Rather, the railroad had 100 GV-2s (21800-21899, built 7-57) of the same capacity built by Greenville Steel Car Co. There were

No, no, and no. The models don't accurately represent any prototype stock cars, as far as I can tell; for one thing, stock cars had long since ceased to be built new before the late style

Hi Richard, I kinda thought that might be the case. They must have been pretty rough and run down by the mid 80's. I appreciate your clarification. Cheers Dave

Guyz,            Try the easy way = download to computer, then put it on a CD. You can always go back to print a specific page.   Fred Freitas

Ampersands were on their way out when railroads started to use IBM cards for train consists. If you look at any teletype list gernerated from IBM cards or any computer file, you will see just ATSF,

There were three cars. Are you talking about the reefer? SGL