Tim O'Connor wrote: "...Sunshine has produced a mini-kit to convert the car into a Wabash (DT&I?) version." Wabash and Ann Arbor only, NOT DT&I. The DT&I USRA DS rebuilds retained their 5/5/5 Murphy

Several good books on the Interstate and L&N operations in SW Virginia are available: Ed Wolfe: The Interstate RR, Old Line Graphics, 1994 and Appalachian Coal Hauler, TLC Publishing, 2001 Ron

Hey Ben, I'm glad this car has come up again. I'd wanted to know about the Georgia Rairoad's cars. They sure do look like this model...to me. I've only got a few shots of their cars and several when

This is a reasonably accurate model of the single-sheathed cars rebuilt with steel sides by the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie (New York Central System) in 1934. There's also a Tichy kit that is okay

Bruce, some fine modelers of North American prototypes are in Australia, but of course prototype research is especially difficult to conduct from that far away, and you're asking some very broad

Armand, These have been discussed at length, both here and as a project on the Yahoo Virtual Modelers group. There is of course, more than one kit, so you need to be more specific as well. Kit 4028

Armand Premo asked: "Often overlooked by modelers is the line of kits produced by Tichy. Among these is the USRA rebuild steel boxcar. Just how accurate is this car? What must one do to upgrade an

> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 4:24 PM Subject: Tichy kits

Yes, and apart from the SP cars (and their WP clones, as Garth Groff has pointed out), all of them would involve a degree of modification or kit-bashing that is out of all proportion to the quality

Tony Yeah, I know. In my PERSONAL opinion the Athearn model is junk. Pecos River Brass imported excellent models for SP, ATSF, and UP years ago and these still show up on Ebay from time to time. For

Tim O'Connor wrote: Those superfluous rivet rows are on the top courses, too, Tim, of the single-dome car. But they are pretty quick and easy to sand off. "Varying degrees of work" is

In addition, the single-dome model shares the bottom "course" with the 3-dome model, and therefore has rivets corresponding to the interior bulkheads on a 3-dome car, but which would not be present on

Ben Hom wrote: Exactly what I recommend, and have done with a fleet of SP cars. I've often wondered if Athearn ever noticed an uptick in their sales of 3-dome car bodies (not kits) after Richard's

Tony Thompson wrote: "The easy way is to just raise the dome height, as Richard covered years earlier in Western Prototype Modeler, and as I described in more detail in the SPH&TS magazine

John Huey wrote: The Athearn triple dome is complete fantasy, John, and is not even remotely a stand-in for anything. The single-dome car is a very unusual size, 12,500 gallons, and though quite

Ben Hom wrote: The easy way is to just raise the dome height, as Richard covered years earlier in Western Prototype Modeler, and as I described in more detail in the SPH&TS magazine

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But of course the car that Bruce was specifically asking about was the AC&F Type 21 tank car, introduced (as the type number indicates) in 1921, continued in production through the late 1920s, and