Well Jerry I do not think I would call it an "ART Clone", to my way of thinking it's more of a PFE R-40-10 Clone. Anyway, I do have the Illinois Central Painting Diagram for the cars and I can

Bill, I have several photos of white Staley tank cars in which the ladders and dome platforms are visible, and in all cases they are black. Richard Hendrickson

I think that was my typo – I blame the MS Outhouse spillchunker Aighdrina

Is there information in any of the Freight Car Cyc? Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@...

The Dan Hall Styrene 4/6/6 Improved Youngstown doors made for the GN and SP&S 12 panel 40' boxcars (and many other 10-0 IH cars) have arrived and are available to members of this list. These are

Larry Jackman wrote: "In TKM #33 they show a PRR box car and it says the car has two hand brakes. A regular staff brake on the B end and a tunnel brake on the A end. They do not show the tunnel brake.

Catching up on some old e-mails... I wrote regarding adding weight to the HO scale Funaro PRR Class FM flatcar kit: "The fishbelly side sill hides a good deal of underframe detail. Turn the car over

In TKM #33 they show a PRR box car and it says the car has two hand brakes. A regular staff brake on the B end and a tunnel brake on the A end. They do not show the tunnel brake. Any one on the list

Mark Mathu wrote: "During the time that these Sealy hopper cars were on the GBW..." One minor point - the name of the engineer who designed this composite hopper design is spelled "Seley", not

Dennis Storzek wrote: I'm not even sure if the car ferries were ever fueled on GBW's side of the lake. I'll have to look into that further. The yard at Kewaunee was located on a narrow peninsula

I had four Tichy underframes that I spliced to create 3 lengthened underframes, which to me was much easier than trying to shorten the tank and get it back together square and true, plus I think

I have a question about this kitbash, and this seems to be as good an opportunity to ask it as any. In the article, Richard H. said that shortening the tank, as he did, results in it being smaller

Thanks, Angela! Good chatting with you at the Meet. Hope you had a good time. Elden

Other models I am moving to finishng are three Pressed Steel tanks cars kitbashed from Tichy underframes and InterMountain tanks. One will be an A E Staley model, which has a white tank. The photo I

Here's a follow up to the posting I made about this kit last week. For those of you modeling 1945 to the early 90s, this car would fit on your layout. It was a common car in interchange service into

Elden and list, The URR gon drawings are in the Train Shed Cyclopedia #5, 'Gondolas and Hoppers from the 1940 Car Builder's Cyclopedia'. I will be making my 'personal use' copy of this page

My memory is that when painting boxcars for these two railroads that I have used more of an oxide red for the Texas & Pacific and more of a brown color for the Frisco. Realizing this is a tremendously

Here's a question. Did the GB&W buy these cars to haul coal, or strictly to coal the car ferries, which was done by running hoppers in on the two middle tracks and dumping directly into the bunkers.

Yes – this was typical of the postwar Southern cars whether new or rebuilt. It’s not hard to build new wooden ends for the F&C kit with styrene sheet, strip and some NBW castings. One thing I would

<smokeandsteam@...> wrote: It's hard to tell from the image at Walthers web site -- but from your message it sounds like the F&C kit has metal ends? ____ Mark