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Re: Intermountain milk car kit?

I should add that the cars have wire grabs and handrails and some of the finest rivets I've ever seen in HO scale. Also, these are the "40-foot" GPEX round sill cars -- Marty

By cvsne <cv_sne@...> · #38032 ·

Uses for Reefers (was Re: Wabash to the B&O at Decatur)

--- In STMFC@..., "mcindoefalls" <mcindoefalls@y...> wrote: "URTX reefers, cleaned after bringing produce to the city, were sent back west with loads of candy. Model a

By Jerry <jrs060@...> · #38040 ·

Re: New Walthers USRA 55 ton hopper

--- In STMFC@..., "Chet French" <cfrench@g...> wrote: "The IC cars were originally numbered in the 210000-210999 series. The April 1940 ORER shows 960 cars still in the group. By

By Jerry <jrs060@...> · #38039 ·

Re: Gondola help

Clark, the biggest fleets of Greenville design gons were those of the Erie and the NYC. The Erie cars, which were painted black, were renumbered into the Erie-Lackawanna roster beginning in the early

By Richard Hendrickson · #38031 ·

Re: M&StL freight cars

Try Mexlist at Yahoogroups Matt Herson

By Matt Herson <trains@...> · #38030 ·

Re: Intermountain milk car kit?

IM had photos and test shots of them at Springfield today. They are a round bottom Pfaudler car. The initial lot will be decorated for Hood, Sheffield, Borden, Whiting, Bakers Chocolate, Milky Way,

By Andy Miller <asmiller@...> · #38029 ·

Intermountain milk car kit?

Has anyone heard talk of Intermountain producing a milk car kit? I heard these would be the round-bottomed Pfaudler cars. Walt Lankenau

By mcindoefalls · #38028 ·

Uses for Reefers (was Re: Wabash to the B&O at Decatur)

Was this sort of an lcl deal, with several candy makers' products combined on one car for a consignee, or were they solid loads of one manufacturer's products? Or a little of both? What candy makers

By mcindoefalls · #38027 ·

Re: M&StL freight cars

Sounds like a railroad in Mexico or South America. Is there an internet list on South American railroads to query? Walt Lankenau

By mcindoefalls · #38026 ·

Erie - URTX again

Hello, Some time back I inquired if anyone here knew if there were more than 1 Erie steel URTX reefers. One, #37808 is pictured in the Erie/DL&W color guide on a 100th anniversary publicity

By Bud Rindfleisch · #38025 ·

Rocket Express resin kits

Hi Folks, A few years ago, I bought a 40' and 50' Rock Island outside braced boxcar kit in Resin from a company named "Rocket Express". The proprietor's name was Ron VonWerder. Anyone know if he's

By Paul Gehrett · #38024 ·

Re: PS 1 ends

Richard Berry wrote: "Intermountain lists separate PS-1 ends in HO, part # 4040013, out of stock at Walthers." That's because Intermountain has gone to Horizon as their exclusive distributor. The

By Benjamin Hom <b.hom@...> · #38022 ·

Re: Museum Collections (long).

Denny Anspach wrote: Gee, Denny, every public library I've ever been in allows this. You are evidently referring to fragile, rare or archival material, not "anything on the shelf." Of course

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #38023 ·

Re: Museum Collections

Chuck and Tom, I have no problem understanding the position of the museum. What perhaps you are not grasping is the position of a particular society which wishes to house archives. Years of

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #38021 ·

Re: PS 1 ends

Clark, Intermountain lists separate PS-1 ends in HO, part # 4040013, out of stock at Walthers. At one time Cannonball had separate ends from the old, old Kurtz Kraft line. I tried their web site and

By rberry634 <rberry634@...> · #38020 ·

PS 1 ends

Anyone have any separate PS 1 box car ends? Clark propst

By Clark Propst <cepropst@...> · #38019 ·

SAL B-3 12399

Yesterday, I received a print of SAL B-3 12399. This is one of the first of the Seaboard's many ARA single sheathed box cars. Like the other SAL ARA box cars, it has fishbelly center sills, but the

By Ted Culotta <tculotta@...> · #38018 ·

Gondola help

A freind has several Life-Like gondolas which are all freight car red. He would like to paint one or two black. Can anyone supply info on any of these gons that were black, other than the models

By rockroll50401 <cepropst@...> · #38017 ·

Re: 0.88 wheels: Anyone experiencing any problems?

Several years ago I attended a presentation by JP Barger at the Glendale Model Railroad Club. JP provided a 120 car train all with 0.88 wheels. We ran the train around our layout with only two

By BuyGone Treasures <buygone@...> · #38015 ·

Re: New Walthers USRA 55 ton hopper

jrs060@m... suppose to mystery. Paul, The IC cars were originally numbered in the 210000-210999 series. The April 1940 ORER shows 960 cars still in the group. By this time they were being

By Chet French <cfrench@...> · #38014 ·

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