wrote: Mike, The larger amount of perishable traffic was received by the Wabash at Kansas City from the SP/CRIP and UP. Some cars were received at Council Bluffs from the UP. All the cars arrived

Charlie Vlk asked: "A neat conversion. How close is it to what prototype(s)?" It's closest to the WAB radial roof SS automobile boxcars. It scales out about 1' too long and ~4-6" too high. The

Gentlemen: I'm reposlting this note as it appears that my computor did not send it last week. While I've been on the group for a couple of months I haven't written in before so I'm still fairly knew

Rats are very intelligent creatures. Some have even been elected to high office.

That rats would ignore the boxcar while flour is available on the ground, is puzzling. Perhaps it is the same reason that they ignore all the food present on land, and scurry to get aboard ships

There is really no way to tell from the list, where the cars originated. Wabash could have picked them up either at Council Bluffs or Kansas City, or even somewhere else. And of course, since they are

Rich, I was looking for HO scale. I plan on ordering a Sunshine kit. Brian Carlson Rich Yoder <oscale48@...> wrote: What scale model are you looking for? Richard Yoder

John Golden writes: Thanks for the additions, John. As for FAD, most of the entries in the list are based on photographic evidence, but it isn't always easy to make out the stenciling on the cars in

What scale model are you looking for? Richard Yoder

Mr. Brewer, Some additions to your excellent station symbol list: 1. EMR on the ACL is Emerson Shops (Rocky Mount, NC) 2. Add SAV for Savannah to the SAL table 3. I've never heard of "FAD" on the

Phil Buchwald wrote: "Here's the part that ties this into the MDC 50ft car string: I've got three of these cars, one of them is to try to cobble up a CP "minibox", using the roof from the MDC car. I'd

Sam, Thanks very much for the information. It looks like this car can't be done then, without kitbashing the roof to get the hatch spacing right. Sounds like an opportunity for another "aftermarket"

Some, who have probably even seen a steam era freight car (in order to remain at least partially within boundaries) or two have even been reelected ;< Take Care! Brian R. Termunde West Jordan,

Mike, UP to Omaha / CoB seems like the logical routing for the spuds. For the other vegetables, I wonder whether they came from northern or southern California. If the latter, I wonder if they

Brian Carlson wrote: IIRC Atlas did do this paint and lettering scheme, but I'd much prefer having it on a Kadee PS-2 rather than the Atlas car. Fortunately Champion makes decals for this car; the

Atlas did a PS-2 in this version and I think a photo of one appeared in a PS-2 article in RMJ back when the Atlas and/or KAdee cars came out. either here, Pullman-Standard 70-ton PS-2 Two-Bay

Hello Shawn Becket, Bobs' Photo has a photo of NAHX #31060 with the large Boraxo paint scheme. S-Helper did this car in "S" scale but unfortunately used the wrong body style. The car has the

I have an old Con-Cor kit with mostly wood components. It does have preprinted sheet plastic sides. I think the address was in Chicago proper. Doug Brown

Chet, Thanks for posting this. Very interesting. Any idea how these were routed. UP to Council Bluffs? Were these cars part of block dropped at Decatur from a train going through to the