The Mainstreeter did publish a very small article on NP reefers in Vol 4 No. 2. This article includes photos of the R-40-23 clone with no train name...car 91000...."Main Street of the Northwest"...car

Interesting -- let me know what you see. I've been working on the Canadian tank cars story for a while, and it was very interesting to see a car I knew nothing about (and I suspect will know very

appropriate for the Yankee Clipper Models marketed accurate resin kits for the MEC and B&M cars. I think these were actually made by Funaro & Camerlengo, and may now be marketed by F&C. And I'm glad

Thanks for filling in those gaps, Ian. Your comments about it being in captive service are confirmed in part at least by the fact that the photo was taken from just outside the B.C. Sugar plant on

Yeah. Despite publishing Ted Culotta's fine articles on essential freight cars, someone at RMC still thinks resin models are below the radar. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

And Tim Gilbert responded: Also Wine drop door mechanisms only on bays 3, 4, 6, and 7, rather than the full-length Enterprise door operating mechanisms represented on the model, which rendered the SP

The Dispatchers Report section of the March RMC notes that Intermountain will be making an ART steel horizontal seam reefer. It says "this is the first time this prototype has been done in HO

Ed, RP CYC Vol. 2 had an article on ART's first steel reefers, 1,021 cars built by AC&F and GATC in 1936. More recently I published an article in the MPHS Eagle on ART's second grouping of 775 steel

Brian J Carlson wrote: The B&M and MEC gons had nine side panels vs. Red Caboose's (& SP's) eight side panels. Tim Gilbert

I was thinking of picking up a Red caboose GS gondola in either BM or MEC at a local train show tomorrow. In looking at the all-time index for references to the RC cars I found I don't have RMJ from

Winter 1996 issue of the Wabash historical society is an all ART issue. Prior to the MMOD articles, I did an MDT overview for the NYCHS headlight which had an alltime roster(with a few errors) To my

Rob, this is a very interesting shot -- I've looked through a lot of equipment registers over the years, and have never seen this car listed. There was a BCER 101, but it too was a propane car built

http://railroad.union.rpi.edu/rolling-stock/Soph-Marty/Freight-Cars-C/CNW-263219-tank-1982-SDM.jpg

Have comprehensive stories ever been done on ART or MDT rolling stock (maybe in one of the society magazines)? I'm surprised that an ART article never appeared in Ed Hawkins Cyclopedias considering

--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson wrote: "I've done a larger and extensively illustrated chapter on NP freight cars for the forthcoming Signature Press edition of Pat Dorin's NP

Thanks, Richard. SGL

To which Schuyler Larrabee responds: 1955. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

Bill McCoy writes: Bill, I've done a larger and extensively illustrated chapter on NP freight cars for the forthcoming Signature Press edition of Pat Dorin's NP book, which should be out some time