Pieter, My apologies. I did not find the original message nearly as clear as you did. The implication to me in asking about availability of a kit was that it was OOP and the original author was

Hi; The original post said "turtleback" rather than "roundroof", and went on to mention an SAL car class which are two BIG clues that the poster is NOT looking for PRR X31 class cars. The Seaboard

I recall reading in several places that the Pacific Electric's 65' gons lasted in PE markings until 1953, but the Jan 53 ORER doesn't list them under the PE's entry. Does anyone know a source of

Thanks for that heads-up. I might well wait, since it isn't a priority project; was just thinking to do one of each SAL slogan car in HO as a display project. Frank Valoczy New Westminster, BC

Greg Martin wrote: Malcolm Laughlin replied: Gosh. Greg Martin doesn't know everything about shipping? I'm thunderstruck. What Malcolm says makes eminent sense. If the arrangement were

For Everyone's Information : The single-door, little brother of and predecessor to the double-door car Frank is asking about is coming out very soon in both S and HO... and the word from the

On Wed, June 20, 2007 9:45 pm, cj riley wrote: The PRR car was class X31F. In addition to the Sunshine kit, there is a Bowser kit. Coincidentally, we'll be building X31s as our next project on the

Are you referring to the Pennsy turtleback cars modified to carry Jeeps (and later, cars)" I have built the kit recently, but fair value is in the eyes of the "potential" buyer. CJ Riley ---

Beckert, Shawn wrote: A few of Al's negatives were sold or traded after his death, but the great bulk of his work was purchased by Signature Press. The collection has been indexed on a CD, and

List, Does anyone know what became of the photograph collection of A.C. Phelps, noted railroad photographer? Thanks, Shawn Beckert

Some comments in response to various posting on commodity origins Do you have numbers for that Malcolm? I couldn't help but notice that you left out the entire LA region, from the Simi Valley

I'm curious about the model mentioned in the subject line. How easy/hard is it to find? What sort of price is 'good'? I want to use this to do an SAL AF2. What is the prototype for the model? Frank

dominant. Yes, schmoozing was a factor, but performance mattered to PFE: ----------------- It's not cynicism. It' was a well known fact that railroad freight salesmen used their

In the light of attempts to draw conclusions from freight claims numbers, I thought it might be useful to post this note about how the system worked. It didn't actually work that way. Damage

department in 1965, I had the freight schedules of nearly 100 Class 1 railroads in my desk. KL --------------------------- The sharing of freight schedules was an industry custom. Each

department in 1965, I had the freight schedules of nearly 100 Class 1 railroads in my desk. KL --------------------------- The sharing of freight schedules was an industry custom. Each

Now that you mention it, I think he was selling them at Prototype Rails last January. Tom Madden

June, 1947. Richard Hendrickson

Garth: Working in Southern California the WP did not come into play with me. I would guess that on traffic that originated on the WP they were allowed by PFE to take their long haul. In southern

Indeed! Talking with Ted at Collinsville I learned there are multiple WIDTHS as well as other features of these Wabash box cars -- Not a homogeneous set of cars at all. And I believe Ted intends to