I have a document from the Colorado & Southern (CB&Q subsidiary) instructing agents to use reefers for LCL if the travel was in the direction of the reefer's home. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

What the ?? The IMWX and Red Caboose 1937 AAR box car are the SAME MODEL. The DPH cars with Viking roofs are certainly IMWX models and the roofs fit perfectly. Intermountain's "1937 AAR" carbody

Part of the reason may be that catalysts were discovered in fossil beds in the northeastern US including New Jersey. I learned about that years ago reading one of John McPhee's books on geology. --

AHEM. The Buffalo Creek box cars were XM. They could be loaded by ANY railroad in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Eastern Canada, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware. Pennsylvania, New

I can’t speak to 1955, but in the 40s and early 50s ATSF used SFRD reefers commonly for LCL service. The largest percentage of LCL traffic was from east to west and was clean, dry, and usually came

Coil-elliptical, or ordinary Bettendorf (look very much like Tichy trucks) On 11/9/2021 9:18 PM, Jim Mischke wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Nice work Ray. What are you doing for decals? Colin Meikle

Very nice cars. I particularly like the SOO car. Can you describe where you apply the Pan Pastels? I am concerned that when I use it, so of my effort to match the prototype body colour is compromised

Thanks, Eric. That pretty much my thinking, but it doesn’t hurt to check with the experts. Nelson Moyer

Unfamiliar with the definition of "record rights" in the Southern refrigerator empty routing. Does this refer to the previous load carrier routing? For PFE, which town/location named Meridian would

When the harvest season changed, FGE and WFE mtys were gathered at various locations and run as entire trains W to E or vice-versa. I assume (do not “know”) the routes used may have been FGE/WFE

Lovely product from Speedwitch, and a gorgeous build! Michael Gross Pasadena, CA

Rich Another excellent model. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Rich Very nice I really like the weathering and chalk marks. Paul Doggett England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I typically paint the trucks with the car color. When a prototype car is painted, over spray would cover at least some portion of the truck side frames. Weathering will alter the final appearance. The

Greetings, Next up from the AZ built cars is CB&Q 15508, a Speedwitch XA-9 Auto Car kit. I finished this car earlier today. and brackets. The cars was painted with TruColor TCP-240 CB&Q Frt Car

Greetings, Earlier this year we headed down to AZ when the weather got cold in Minnesota and I brought a handful of resin freight car kits along. I built several cars and was able to spray them

Jim Mischke, If you have an ice rack on your layout then using "a rack full" as some kind of multiplier of reefers makes a lot of sense - the question then would be 'how many rack loads to use'. If

The CGW Chicagoland mini-kit also used elliptical coil trucks, which a good reason to add some CGW cars to your roster for truck variety. Nelson Moyer

What color were trucks for these NYC and MILW gondolas under conditions stated? NYC 751000-751099 wood floor rebuild in 1945, presumably repainted then, as it would appear in 1953. MILW