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New today. Volume is out of print. Don't know seller. Dave Nelson ====================== 1. Railway Prototype Cyclopedia RP CYC 5 - Articles include: Vintage Box Car Painting & Lettering Part 3,

The single medallion scheme was applied to new cars built in 2-47. How much earlier than that it was used, I don't know; the early '30s Cabot P/L was a much more elaborate billboard scheme. The

Dates for each scheme? Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

As an O scaler who got his start with the 70's era Atlas offerings I can say that, although extremely skeptical at first, I am impressed with what I've seen. Paul Imhoff Baton Rouge

I thought the was an internet site for these but can't find it now. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI user NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS

Ron, Can I order one of each scheme from you? If so, reserve the two for me and I'll call in my Visa number tomorrow. Virgil Young 4209 Kingston Road Amarillo, TX 79109-5249 vyoung5622@...

Chris Zygmut doesn't seem to toot his horn, so I will. He dropped off a bushel of his new Rail Shops Carbon Black covered hopper kits in HO and they are stunning to say the least. They come in two

I have just uploaded an Excel spreadsheet showing the splits for each Class I US Railroad for the Solid Bottom Gons (GT High Side Coal vs. Mill Type) and Drop Bottom Gons (Side vs. Center Dump) they

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /49orergons.xls Uploaded by : timgilbert17851

Eric, The proper shipping of some kinds of forest products, in particular Christmas trees, was with the doors open wide enough for ventilation but not wide enough for theft. These were usually in 50'

Folks, I just picked up two of the new 70 ton, AC&F 3 bay hoppers from Atlas/Trainman in the C&O Progress scheme. They are spectacular! Details and printing are excellant. They roll like the wind too.

not in discussed I agree Ben; sometimes I make sweeping generalizations. I don't think that either LNE or NYO&W had very big gon fleets, at least not in the era that I'm interested in

The Rutland had a relatively large collection of distinctive wooden hopper bottom gons.which were relegated to on-line company service .The road also rostered some 36' wood sided gons and two

Armand, In the April 1949 ORER, the RUTLAND had only 89 of these hopper bottom gons left. That is 0.37% of the 23,943 Center Dump Drop Bottom Gons on Class I RR's in the US as per that 4/49

photos? I'm always looking for additional photo sources, especially of the NYC (and particularly photos of cars seen on the Toledo & Ohio Central, or NYC/T&OC cars in general). Robert G Spaugh

Guys just took a peek into page from the July 1897 ORE and the Delaware, Susquehanna, and Schuylkill RR Coal gondola 1001 to 2513 a total of 1513 COAL GONDOLAS LISTED NOTHING ABOUT HOPPER

NYC and subsidiaries had 16,500 inside stake wooden coal gons built in 1903-6, many used in rotary dumpers. They were specifically designed with recessed grab irons for clearance. See Mainline

I apologize to the Group for the wasted bandwidth, but the revised Yahoo format has me buffaloed. There was just too big a gap between my comments and Elden Gatwood's so that I thought some would

Gatwood, Elden J SAD wrote: Elden, Perhaps, a summary of ownership of the type of gons would be helpful. According to the AAR Car Service Division, there were 306,333 Gons owned by Class I RR's in