David Ball said: Once introduced, it would have been painted on any reweighed car, AFAIK. Don't think of it as part of a "paint scheme," think of it as a "feature." Tony Thompson

Brian; I don't have the 4/87 issue of MRG, so don't know which series of car you are looking at, but the Summer 1992 issue of Northwestern Lines has several photos of various cars. From what I can

We will be at both the Naperville RPM and Howard Zane's Orlando show the following week. If anyone wants us to bring a specific older kit, let me know by the 19th. We will be launching 1921 NYC

Fred - I've been working on a project to do a number of cars with Van Dorn ends. They were used on at least 4 different cars circa 1912 but only one road used them in any quantity - an IC 1-1/2 door

My post, I now realize, was ambiguous. I meant to say that none of the cars shown with inverse corrugated ends in the 1919 and 1922 CBCycs were built after ca. 1918. No argument that some cars were

List, Have the unusual Van Dorn patent car ends ever been made available in HO? The ends are the ones that resemble a bullseye target. Also, when were these last seen in service? Thanks to

Thanks Tony I wasn't looking for any great precision, just to figure out the reasonable probability of them showing up, at what levels "Many" of a fleet the size of the R-40-10's is good enough

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When I last had a message from Keith a few months back, he indicated that he would not be coming to Naperville (which I frankly found quite disappointing given his great collection of steam era

Brian, Assuming that its cars were built in Canada, yes, they would be subject to the same rules. The TH&B was a Canadian railway, even if half owned by a US one. Gregg Mahlkov

All the recent discussion on the rules involving Canadian freight cars has brought a question to my mind. The TH&B was owned 50-50 by the NYC and CP. Were the TH&B boxcars subject to the same rules

Did the CGW ARA boxcars have vertical hand brake or a horizontal hand brake? I can't tell from the photo in the April 1987 issue of Model Railroading. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

That's a bit premature. C&O was still using inverse corrugated ends through the mid-1920s, and there are other occasional examples. David Thompson

Richard Hendrickson wrote Richard, according to my notes, MP 120000-121749 36' box cars were built in 1926 with inverse Murphy ends, and UP 99500-99999 G-50-9 gondolas were built in 1925 with inverse

Pete, inverse Murphy corrugated ends were largely a pre-World-War-I design. Murphy ends with the corrugations stamped outward rather than inward appeared in the mid-teens, were applied to all three

Detail Associates (and Grandt Line, same tool) AB brake sets come with a highly detailed retainer valve that is cast with a hole for .008 wire. I just glue the wire into the retainer valve, and that

Richard, I fully understand the "just stock me up" situation. Fortunately we do a lot of special orders and stock the shop like we are modelers, oh yeah, we are!!! We also happen to have a lot

P 344 of Vol.II of The Northwest's Own Railway features a picture of a Great Northern 0-6 2-8-2 on the line between Klamath Falls and Bend, Oregon with 4 DRGW 47 gondolas, two of which have side

correction: Dan HALL (not Dan Smith) <midcentury@...> -Andy Carlson