Jim, Very nice "unofficial" site. How about a gallery of completed models? Joe Binish

Hello group, I have about a half dozen Westerfield kits (CP, MP, SP, & TP) that I wish to sell to make room for... what else... more kits. Please contact me off-list if interested. Thanks, -- Bill

Jack and group, Gid you order them direct or is their a discount hobby store where you ordered yours from? I'm fairely new to the hobby so I have a related question. Besides couplers, to make

I have created an unofficial Sunshine Models website. It contains my All-time lists plus current price lists, PDFs of recent flyers, info on upcoming meets, and links to other steam era resin kit

George, At one point I did some research to see what unmodified (or least modified) 40' USRA cars were still listed in the 1/53 ORER -- either with composite sides or steel sides. Below are my notes

Does anyone on the list have, or know someone who has, the ICC Valuation Reports for the UP subsidiaries (LA&SL, OWR&N, OSL etc.)? I have the parent railroad report but not the subs. And yes, I know I

Thanks Bruce. As it turns out that is exactly the answer I was hoping for. Under the circumstances maybe I should go out and buy a lottery ticket today as well. Pierre Oliver

Pierre, Both are. It depends on era <G>. In the early 1950s, some of "our companies" reefers got silver roofs. Up until that time the roof was always red. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn,

I'm about to start some of the reefere kits mentioned in the subject line. There's a discrepancy between the instructions and the PDS regarding painting. The instructions call for the roof to be

It appears that National Steel Car's PR dept has too much money. Nevertheless, it's an interesting website; STMFC folks should try the "Heritage" link. http://www.steelcar.com/

The CB&Q liked the USRA composite gondola design very much, but AFAIK all the originals were gone by the 1950s..... I haven't studied the OERs to see how long theirs lasted. They made copies which

George, The PRR listed 6 G24 (USRA, 50 ton) class gons in 1958 and 1 in 1963 in the ORER. All of these cars would have had steel sides. I do not know if these particular cars had rebuilt ends (some

I should rephrase what I asked. Did any road run USRA gondolas in 1958 with rebuilt steel sides. Not looking for complete rebuilds. Just a railroad that replaced the wood sides with steel.

Hi, I saw a photo of UP 49191 and noticed yet another application of a vertically-ribbed end, in yet another variation: this one seems to be a 5+5 outward, with blank spaces at either side (no ribs

The only pix I have is from a book Santa Fe Railway Passenger Car Reference series - Volume One head End Cars by Ellington and Shine.< The pictures in the book are of the early 1888 or so wood

Agreed - I'm no more interested in depriving a good source of its revenue than the next guy. I still wonder whether the list of photos is permissible however. It is something they give only to

NP B&O NYC GN and many others........ Terry Wegmann, principal of N&G Signal Co. has finished his latest HO semaphore, the GRS 2-A Top Of Mast single semaphore. Assembled and painted (and operable

Well, OK, I apologize at the flame. This just is one sore subject with me, and most anybody else who is involved with trying to keep an archive whole, complete, dry and accessible. SGL

This SP drop-bottom gon is very similar to 40' Enterprise GS gons built for CN, and 36' cars built by the Eastern Car Co. in Nova Scotia for the Intercolonial Ry. and GTR (taken into CN stock

Has anyone come across any color data for any of these cars? Max