I suspect that the "change" is that the brake wheel on the caboose is on the left meaning that the ladder has to be on the right. Moving from car to car would be not from ladder to ladder but from

jeez... seems like Ted C is just cruising... hardly anything on his plate. I don't see -why- he can't just crank out the EFC volume we're demanding! -------------------- Richard Brennan - San

I have the January 1959 issue of MR magazine, containing a construction article about a Canadian Pacific caboose by Jack Work, drawings by J. Harold Geissel, pgs. 74 thru 82. I, awhile back,

Ed Hawkins wrote Ed, yes, Intermountain removed the top stiffener for the SP kits, and as you say, this end is correct for some GN cars too. The original end is wrong only because of the

David Powell wrote: Sorry, Dave, you are right. My error. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Tony, I'm not debating whether the prototype ends existed or not. There were two distinctively different versions (actually 3 including some post-1955 cars for B&O) and they were described in my RP

I checked. I have RDG 109132 from Red Caboose, an XMc.

Andy, not quite. GN 11319 -lacks- the thin upper stiffener (I wouldn't promote it to 'rib'). On page 35 you can see GN 11620 has the stiffener with the topmost rib having the straight bottom edge.

Tony & All. It is NOT RMC on eBay but RPC(Railway Prototype Cyclopedias). Dave

The comment by Dave Powell about the set of RMC volumes on eBay reminds me that if you browse Amazon.com or other used book sites, you can find Ed Kaminski's ACF book, and his Magor book, at

Dave Powell wrote: Ted has been careful to retain rights to the articles beyond their one-time use in RMC. Thus RMC has no such plans because they would have no permission to do a book. I

Andy Carlson wrote: The same is true for SP classes B-50-25 and -26, both 12-panel cars. I agree with Andy that these DID exist, unless I am somehow misunderstanding Ed's description of the

Sorry, I put a smily face(:] after that remark. I didn't mean to imply anything but that I've lost my November copy of Railroad Model Craftsman. Any misunderstanding is purely because of my

And you can bid up to a whole 10% less than the buy it now price, oh boy! So, oh gurus of the prototype, is it worth $600 (~$40/issue)? Dave Smith -- David L. Smith Allentown, PA dlsio4@...

Ed, I simply replied to your statement that the GN 12 panel cars had a straight bottomed uppermost main rib. I gave the number class where GN 12 panel cars had a fully tapered "rolling pin" uppermost

There is a complete 14 volume set of RPC on ebay right now; #320102905305 Dave

Did I miss something or is the articles by Ted Culota going to be made into a book? I ask RMC awhile back about such a book and they said there were no plans for it so I went ahead a purchased all the

Definitely not the Des Plaines kit, as the NC&StL rebuilt gondolas did not use the original USRA side framing. If by NYC rebuilt USRA gon you mean the USRA gondolas that were rebuilt by the NYC

The Branchline kit is Lettered for Reading Class XMy. 10'6' 4/4 IDE ends, 8' door, 7 panel Superior Doors (The box artwork shows Youngstown) Murphy rectangular panel roof, with a 10-48 built date, and

Andy, Sorry, Andy, but the defense doesn't work in this case. There were a substantial number of 10' IH postwar AAR box cars built circa 1945-48 having the full top corrugations. However, in these