Tim O'Connor wrote: I think all the cars we are discussing, looking like express reefers, are AAR class BMT. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

They are technically AAR class XT, house-style tank cars. They are not refrigerator cars, although the cars or the tanks (or both) are insulated. Heavy insulation and ice were not needed for milk

Bob Chaparro asked: "MDC/Roundhouse at one time produced an HO scale wood-bodied 50 foot express reefer in several road names, including Chateau Martin Wine Company. From what I've read, the Chateau

Bob, Check the MilkTrains list on Yahoo, but as I remember there are a number of problems with the MDC car as a GPEX model. I know there are some photos on the list of the Chateau Martin cars in

MDC/Roundhouse at one time produced an HO scale wood-bodied 50 foot express reefer in several road names, including Chateau Martin Wine Company. From what I've read, the Chateau Martin cars

Hello List, Does anyone have photos (or know where I can find photos) of the Charleston and Western Carolina USRA double-sheated boxcars before rebuilding with steel sides? I believe they were in the

The January/February issue of The B&O Modeler is posted online at http://borhs.org/ModelerMag/BO_Modeler_3_2007_JanFeb.pdf This month's freight car article is converting the Sunshine Class O-63 gon

Garth Groff wrote: Um, that would NOT be a scale inch, right? <g> Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

laramielarry wrote: ================================================ Not able to post anything on that board... so I'll put it here. I havn't had much time to participate in the discussions over the

Thanks to "muskokaandtahoe" (I assume this is Dave Nelson?) for the 1948 ORER excerpt (CNW and subsidiaries) that you posted yesterday on the STEFA site. There is a LOT of useful information in it.

Jason, Keep in mind that you don't need to do the whole car interior, unless you are really obsessive. Only the first inch or so on each side of the door can be seen, even when they are wide

Anthony, That is actually a good idea. I didn't even think of that. I guess I am too close to the project and I was thinking real wood because I saw Red Caboose offered real wood interiors for

Does anyone know of a company that makes boxcar interiors for the proto 2000 50' boxcars? I want to model some open door cars but don't want to have to lay board by board interiors. Thanks. Jason

Jason Sanford wrote: Jason, could you use scribed styrene and paint it a "wood" color? Pretty quick and easy. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

Works will not open multiple pages (tabs?) and trashes some of the formulas. I have Excel for only a trial period but have installed open office (a free office suite from openoffice.org) that opens it

Armour 11000 series. This car can be used as a rebuilt URTX car. There's an article on really changing the model to better match the prototype in Ted's first modeling magazine. Clark Propst

In checking through my collection of Branchline Blueprint Series HO kits and R-T-R cars, it appears that I had a "senior moment" and duplicated several orders. I would like to offer these R-T-R cars

Getting this all mixed up. C&W at Guernsey was Sunshine Mine. Iron ore only loading there. Normally in gons. Coal came from, most recently, Allen Mine which is West of Trinidad CO. Limestone came

In a message dated 3/5/2007 7:08:58 AM Central Standard Time, STMFC@... writes: And coal was loaded on the 'Colorado & Wyoming' branch out of Laramie; I don't know if any of it was sent