Tony the Thompson observes- Well, they could not be any worse than the plethora of universally-filthy dirt-caked NYC baggage/express cars that seemed to reside in each and every junction that had any

Jeff Aley wrote: I admire Ted's work, but come on, Jeff . . . I've done my time in the east already. Actual move is about four blocks. My wife says it's a WAY better house. Tony

Tony, Are you moving to Connecticut to be closer to Ted? -Jeff -- Jeff Aley jaley@... DPG Chipsets Product Engineering Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA (916) 356-3533

--- In STMFC@..., "proto48er" <atkott@s...> wrote: ... a bunch of bull about tank cars without having read Guy Wilbur's excellent response on May 1st!!!... Sorry about that, Guy! Old

Andy Miller wrote: They were a color specifically formulated for the PRR, know in the DuPont catalog as "Express car dirt - PRR Shade". ;-) ============================================== COOL!

Good for you, Tony. And, thanks for the info. Elden

Shawn; Ben is right on. There may be some additional information on what schemes were present, and in what eras, in some of the TKM articles. Plus, certain types of cars got repainted more often

Dear Schuyler I neither own nor can use a digital scanner or camera. I dug around and found my Beeman/RailCraft Erie high-side (my grandmother used to say three moves was as good as a fire) and

Ben Hom wrote: Ben, Thanks for the information. Looks like the majority of my PRR models should be wearing Shadow Keystone. I think I'll do just two or three cars (maybe my G22's) in the Circle

Ed, It's highly unlikely that the MPHS article will be reprinted in another publication. The article is in the Summer 2002 Eagle, available for $5.50 (postpaid) to nonmembers of the MPHS. It can be

Gatwood, Elden wrote: There were numerous upgrades and some new standards. (MCB = Master Car Builders, as I presume you know, but not all readers of this list may know). About four

Thanks, Tony. I thought maybe there was something specific to the MCB part, but I should have recognized the Class II part. Did the Class IIs differ in essence from the Type III's, or were they

Gatwood, Elden wrote: It defines a specific period of construction, prior to the more extensive car standards introduced in 1917, which were Class III (later ICC 103, then DOT 103). Class II,

Guys; From what I've seen, the Trix car appears to be a 6,000 gallon insulated pressure tank car (ICC 105?), with the small valve casing housing, instead of a pressure-type "dome". What is an MCB

List, Red Caboose is (again) offering their 10,000 gallon welded tank car painted and lettered for the U.S. Army in 12 different numbers. Which, if I remember rightly, are the only cars that this

Those represent the next step up in the RPI brown dot/green dot system of standards: White dot: 1:1 scale with 100% prototype fidelity. Phil Buchwald picture of tow black the end represent?

<SNIP for brevity> other acrylic. Ted painted his P&LE box with a mixture of Floquil Boxcar and Oxide reds...same for PollyScale?" results before you put it on the model. << SNIP again>> Yes, I

I believe many of these marks, in this era, were from famous hobos. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI user NMRA Life member #2623 Member

Thomas Baker wrote: Tom, Dead Head Passenger Head End Cars could be seen on freight trains. Indeed, the railroads could pay the freight mileage rate for an express reefer rather than the more

--- In STMFC@..., Bob Webber <no17@c...> wrote: The MP Eagle had a nice article in it some time back about all the foreign headend cars that passed between KC & St Louis. Worth getting