Ed, Supposedly this photo is dated 1955. Also note the use of the old style reporting marks with the new emblem. There are almost 200 cars in series 16000-16200 listed in the 1955 ORER, assigned

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Group, Please pardon my asking these questions if the information has been discussed before, but if so I cannot locate specifics. 1. DT&I box cars built in the late 1940s to early 1950s used a

They are Ed's chips. All I have is the scan.

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim, can you give a RGB value for any of those chips? I'd like to compare your numbers w/ what I'm reading locally. Dave Nelson

Tony To produce a kit for the War Emergency cars would require money and expertise. If someone here thinks that would be a viable investment, why not ask Don Tichy to produce the tooling as a custom

I will add that, while there is a lot of information, there are also a lot of errors, as you would expect when one person tries to summarize so much information, and also that the person responsible

eric petersson wrote: Ah, but that would be admitting your kit was screwed up. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Tim Thank you for posting the chips. They look more like Rich Oxide Brown (AP-54). Hold up on the "zinc chromate" colour! Gene

Jim No, RPI is not a Wiki. It is conventional directory-structure web pages, not user-provided content. And it is the work of one person and while much of it is good, no one but he can fix it when

Hi all Thanks to everyone that responded to my question of correct era freight cars. I certainly did not intend to stir things up with the tanks car question :), I just wanted to make sure that my

Thanks Tony I have a couple of Ed Wolfes books and the Appalachian Coal Hauler book. I spend alot of time just sitting, reading and browsing all three of these implanting as much as I can. One of

Hi Richard You are one of many that have indicated that my date range is a little wide. I have changed that to read "my railroad will be representative of an Appalcahian coal road around 1954" This

There is a I though of mentioning but didn't, primarliy because is seems that the RPI site is the work of one person and the information is not so detailed as could be done if more were involved. If

What seems to have been forgotten at this point is the RPI site. There is a pretty extensive compilation of freight car kits and their prototypes on there. The information may not be 100% accurate,

Because that would be such an insignificant proportion to the fleet on my layout as to be less than a speck of dust (and I don't have many of those on my layout either). <g> I like "different" cars

It would probably be more expensive than gathering good photos and documentation as I suspect it would not be supported by the industry (in the way of advertising). Actually, I'm not sure I'd want

Thanks Tim. I suppose if there was one car I could model that one, provided the ORER only listed one number. Sometimes the entire series is listed, but on 3 cars appear in the quantity column. But

The use of cotton waste evolved into lubricator pads. They were like big sponges with a plastic backing. Inside the journal boxes were a couple of hooks on each side of the axle. The pad was slid