Hello: We have just posted the 11th edition of the Proto48 Modeler on the web. You can find it at http://www.proto48.org Hope you stop and check it out, Gene Deimling Editor

There are five colour photos of R&S aluminum boxcars and hoppers in the recent new book Canadian Railways from Morning Sun. John Riddell

I recall that Ertl briefly produced some weathered USRA cars about eight to nine years ago. They were only briefly on the market, although one finds them on Ebay every now and then. They were

Jerry; That's interesting, and may generate more sales. Much the way Kadee has done on some of their cars, painted out load limit and light weight data, re-weigh station, and re-pack data would

Clark, I think the magazine was Mainline Modeler, and it featured the GM&O cars but was probably valid for the other cars you mentioned. I cannot recall the month or year.

In 1945 Mount Vernon Car built box cars for several roads I think in batches of 10 each. Sunshine sells the kit. M&StL cars were 1000-1018 even numbers. Alton, Rock Island and NKP also come to mind,

For those of you that did, and those that did not, attend the PRRT&HS Meet, I wanted to share with you a list of what freight cars I was asked about, requested, or even badgered about. This is not

And of course there are the multiple plastic conversion parts/kits as well, such as Bethlehem Car Works H25 ends meant to be used with the somewhat lacking Roller Bearing Models resin kit, but now

Jerry; I wholeheartedly agree! If there was ever anything more embarrassing, I am not sure I know what it is! Those guys in the engineer's caps and vests make me actually avoid telling anyone not

There is a aluminum Monon 4 bay open hopper car on display at Monon IN. Ron Christensen

Märklin in recent years has offered some pre-weathered cars, mostly in sets and mostly in HO, though one or two of their Z scale cars were also done. I don't know how well they sell, though,

Jace; I am not sure as to the era you are modeling, but both Richard and Greg are correct. The underframes would be Freight Car Color. A nice 50's version of that can be obtained right from the

Largely self inflicted. Why grown men still choose tinplate and toy quality over scale escapes me. And have you ever noticed, almost any coverage of a train meet or show concentrates on the Lionel

Don't forget Burl Rice <http://burlrice.com/> Jerry Glow C has kits are probably have brass but those

To be honest, model railroading has suffered from a public view, and even a self-perpetuated (think of the "vesties") view of their hobby as "playing with toys", that the model airplane and armor

Frank, Add FGEX 40000. Got that car in interchange one night and I held it for photos. Get back to the yard and there were cars on an adjacent track and it was in shadows. Shot it anyway but that

"The big difference I see right now between the two hobbies is the production of "ready-to-run" armor in 1/72 scale that is pre-painted nicely, but also weathered, such as the Dragon Armor lines,

In a message dated 5/8/2007 6:52:05 AM Central Daylight Time, STMFC@... writes: The big difference I see right now between the two hobbies is the production of "ready-to-run" armor in

Frank Valoczy wrote: First published in 1992, now in an expanded 2nd edition, pretty complete story on PFE, company history, car fleet, shops, operations. I'm one of three authors. It's now

These cars were built 2-3/52. Add to this CN 521497-521499 built 1/46 as experimental aluminum boxcars -- for some reason these three cars were never noted in the ORER as being anything unusual.