Jeff Skeels wrote: "Hmmm.... has anyone tried cutting off the roof of a Westerfield one piece body kit and replacing it with a panel roof." Jeff: See the article in RMC... that is exactly what I

Ted, I'd love to have one of the RPC-6's LMK if still available. John M Martin

Larry, True, but at least I know that the SCHEME is appropriate <G>. Given the paucity of 1944 photographs, I can never hope to document every single car in my 500+ car fleet, therefore I have to be

Hi Everyone, My shop just got the last two copies of RP Cyc #6 covering express boxcars, F3 locos and lightweight passenger car trucks. If you overlooked, procrastinated, or are new to the freight

Hi: The PRR had X53, X54, and X54A RBLs "equipped for the application of heaters." KL

Impossible - everything on the Internet is correct!! KL

We still can make flat kits because we still have some old molds. - Al

Jeff Skeels wrote: Jeff, Despite the sheer numbers, there were not enough road names for plastic manufacturers to release a model kit. Perhaps, some day when the wide distribution of ownership of

Jeff, and others, FWIW, a styrene model is said to be in development, and fairly close to production. Richard Hendrickson

Tony, As best as I can recall only meat PFE's I saw loaded were out of Greeley, Lexington, and Cozad. I do not know if Monfort at Greeley ever did have cars of their own. Swift at Grand Island was

Marty, Just a random thought on that general subject. Have somewhere a drawing that covers the painting instructions for a GN single sheathed box car. They had zillions of the things and most were

Richard and Jeff; Thanks for your help. With all the variations found on these cars, we all could use several of them. Hmmm.... has anyone tried cutting off the roof of a Westerfield one piece body

Bruce, Not to pick nits or anything, but unless the "1943 Scheme" you are referring to is the as-delivered scheme, you do not know the actual date the car in question was painted into the "1943

Well I will answer this question but it is outside the scope of this list which goes from 1900 to 1960. SFRM was introduced on the Santa Fe with the conversion of ten Rr-56 mechanicla refrigerator

Jim Betz wrote: Possibly these are minor, contributing factors. The main reason was to protect against temperature extremes, the exact same reason canned goods are shipped today in insulated

Tim Gilbert wrote: In PFE's case, the local railroad agent would order the cars from SP Car Dept. people, who would get them from the nearest PFE car location, often an SP yard with

Larry Jackman wrote: Larry is absolutely right, at least for PFE heaters. They sat on the bunker bottom. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

Russ Strodtz wrote: The second reason is the right one. PFE was approached by a couple of the packers with requests for more meat cars, but PFE realized that they would only be backups for the

Don Worthy asked: "What was the magazine, month and year that the article is in? I'd like to see if I have it or can get it." Railroad Model Craftsman, April 2006. You could have found it doing an

Marty, Kadee gives us this information, at least in their printed catalogs. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff