Gregg Mahlkov wrote: Ahh HA! Question: did the ICC get the final destination info or just the original? I ask as I wonder if this explains the 1950 ICC data I have on Bananas and the state of

Richard, it seems your assertion below is not correct. According to the AC&F Tank Car book by Kaminski (page 131 bottom) AC&F order #2387 included 50 cars for the Frontenac Pipe Line Company of

A-hh! Classic scholarship is alive and kicking! I have always said that this was a classy List. Denny -- Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento

No such luck. The interior--except for the floor and ends--has been rehabbed at some point--very old plywood. Pretty nasty smelling in there, as it is! blair kooistra may have car, not sure initials

5/4 dreadnaught ends?? Blair AFAIK CGW didn't own any 1937 AAR cars. They had some cars that looked similar but had Pullman ends. Those were numbered in the 91000 and 92000 series. Tim O'Connor

Mike Brock wrote It's wrong. Stewart produced MP and MI cars painted correctly, including two different schemes (plain, and Route of the Eagles). They show up on Ebay now and then. By the way, I saw

"I trust these hatches are post-retirement modificatons?" Love those tie-downs - bungie cords? Jerry Glow ranchland, and in the process of clearing the property of all trees and structures,

list, Several comments about the trucks shown on this car had me go back & read the promo again. It state that"correct trucks" are in production to be sold with this offering. Think we

I think Ed (Hawkins) has already pointed this out if not here, then elsewhere and brought it to the attention of Accurail. MP did indeed change colors in later years, but in the time frame for this

Blair, usually, the car number is painted inside the car, and this may have survived. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

I note that the recently introduced Accurail AAR triple hopper car, Mopac 61539, apparently a member of the 61000 class, is painted in some form of frt car red...the car is lettered "new 7-49". I am

Jim, I don't know for sure about the body color, but your are essentially right about the decals. At least that matches a Walthers set I had many years ago. For some reason, I think these cars were

Richard, WP stock cars were clones of SP's S-40-8 class. From Westerfield's web site, it appears the S-40-5 and S-40-8 shared the same underframe and floor, though the bolsters might have been

I don't believe they are fully available yet as Dan is catching upon shooting parts after having to upgrade molding equipment. Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 645 Tanner Marsh Road, Guilford,

Don't know if you all have heard, but Locomotive Quarterly is going out of business. Theri last issue will be Summer of 2006. I haven't heard the reasons, but I got their renewal form this week

Did you post this photo? If so, where?

Suburbia creeps north in Fort Worth, consuming another chunk of ranchland, and in the process of clearing the property of all trees and structures, developers have revealed a pair of wayward 40'

And Ted replied: Dan is his name. The company is Southwest Scale Reproductions. AH! That s'plains it. . .I thought I just wasn't privy to the Steam Era Freight Car viewing oracle (you get one free

Tim O'Connor wrote: Probably not, because that wasn't the main reason. Journal retention wasn't positive, and especially if heavily loaded, the jaws on the journal opening gave trouble. Tony

Richard Hendrickson wrote: All true with one minor correction. Many Andrews trucks had L-section bottom chords, as did a few of SP's early Vulcan trucks. For those interested in the