Does the Society of Freight Car Historians still exist? They published the Freight Car Journals. If this is still published does anyone have current contact info? Regards, Tom Lawler

Hello, all Can anyone comment on the new Da Costa PFE book? I have the old book he issued about 20 years ago (blue cover) and would like to know if this is just a reprint or if it has new

Paul, With all the possible mix and match combinations possible with these BT kits, I don't believe they will work for RI box cars. RI's 40' box cars built by P-S with 4/4 Dreadnaught Ends had

I picked up a BLT Reading RR 40' postwar boxcar with 8' door for free. According to the box label these cars were built in 1948. This is relatively early for 8' doors so I was wondering if these

*GAEX series 1950- 1999 blt 1955 GACC/EVANS ( 19 cars ) not blt 1950 Doug Brown

Larry, I like you have the old book. I saw the new one last week and had a chance to thumb through it. It did not look a whole lot different, but then I did not have the old one next to it to

coming GN painted a heavyweight diner RW&B Bill Williams

Lots of roads and car lines used to paint freight car truck frames. I doubt that it was prohibited in the time-frame covered by this list. I can remember seeing Northern Refrigerator Car crews do it

Ed Hawkins wrote Yep, nice photo. Page 41. More info: *GAEX series 1950- 1999 blt 1950 GACC/EVANS ( 19 cars ) GAEX series 100000-124999 blt 1950 GACC/EVANS ( 349 cars ) * horizontal

A.T. Kott writes: No excuse needed. In fact, that's the first I've heard about this practice by MP and ART....and, quite useful given the fact that I'm fixing to weather an MP box car.. Mike

Ed; Thanks for the information. I appreciate it. --- Art Richardson Clinton, MS

Paul Gehrett asked: "I've come into the possession of a 3 pack of the Undecorated Branchline 40' boxcar kits (with 6' door). Did the Rock Island have any cars that could be made from the roof/end

Hi Folks, I've come into the possession of a 3 pack of the Undecorated Branchline 40' boxcar kits (with 6' door). Did the Rock Island have any cars that could be made from the roof/end combinations

Group, If anyone is interested, i've posted a photo of the unpainted model on the STMFPH site, in the files section. It's called, "File0026.pdf. This is going to be a NH car, built 1948. Shows

j.Young J - Not sure when the chilled iron wheels were outlawed, but the National Museum of Transport in St Louis has a wood ART refrigerator car on display that has one relatively new ribbed-back

Ed; Could you give me the contact information for Richard Berg? I would appreciate it. Thank you. --- Art Richardson, Secretary GM&O Historical Society, Inc. P. O. Box 1085 Clinton, MS

So what do you suppose the engine is that's behind all these car management programs and waybill programs and whatnot that are advertised? And, no, I don't mean engine in the model railroad

Dean, First, I appologize, I did not read your first e-mail clearly enough. As for the Erie, only the big herald was there as you mentioned and the website shows. As for the SOO, they have both the

--- In STMFC@..., "Clyde Williams" <billdgoat@i...> wrote: I noticed in a WWII issue of Railroad magazine about the C&EI coming out (before the 9-'43 time I model)with the war bonds

You can easily put drop down menus with valid values in Excel. And, given the formats you can export and import to/from Excel it's easy to put data into and out of other products that use