Hi, I've got a few tank car kits I want to paint as company service cars for the Southern Pacific ca 1935-41. What colors were used for what types of loads? Were the frames and trucks painted the

While we are on the ATSF stock cars is there any idea of when the undec kits will be out. Plastic bags are fine with me. I have an order in with my supplier. Ted, what about the decals for

Isn't that the truth! It seems that authors are turning out books faster than I can read them (or afford them). Plus, there's always another dozen or so resin kits from Al and Martin I'd like to

Might have been nice, though, if someone had corrected the "George" railroad name. Actually, though, I got kind of fond of it, as the many responses rolled through the system day after day

I will be looking forward to our get together in a few days at Naperville, Ill. I will be offering a new book and some historic freight car items, along with the regular products I sell. First is a

Jerry Glow wrote: "I hope modeling efforts aren't as inexact as the recent string of posts on the Intermountain Georgia Railroad Single Sheathed car which were mostly about a chlorine tank

Gentlemen: please change the subject for your post when changing the subject. I hope modeling efforts aren't as inexact as the recent string of posts on the Intermountain Georgia Railroad Single

Tim O'Connor wrote: "The earliest I've seen of the chlorine canister cars is 1938. Who had them in 1931? Also, that box car to the left (Santa Fe?) appears to have 4/4 ends. Who would have such ends

Tim O'Connor wrote: "The earliest I've seen of the chlorine canister cars is 1938. Who had them in 1931? Also, that box car to the left (Santa Fe?) appears to have 4/4 ends. Who would have such ends

Ben, The earliest I've seen of the chlorine cannister cars is 1938. Who had them in 1931? Also, that box car to the left (Santa Fe?) appears to have 4/4 ends. Who would have such ends in 1931?

Ben, since I have a fine shot of GA 19668 in box car red, with a REWEIGH stencil date of 1938 (so it may have been painted a year or two earlier), I guess I'll have to strongly disagree with you. Can

Guys, lets get this straight before the confusion gets worse. What I wrote about paint and lettering a couple of days ago, which is abundantly documented by photos, is that the cars were mineral red

Ben Hom wrote: This c. 1951 D&H photo (on the pay side of the RPI site) shows a car in this scheme on the Warrensburg branch. (Note also the variety of cars - an SAL Pratt-truss SS boxcar, a

Gary Laakso asked: "Where does one look for Bragdon's supplies?" Bragdon's website: http://www.bragdonent.com/ Hobby shops that cater heavily to military modelers are your best bet for their

Hi folks, I think that I got scans of the Sunshine Models Milw ribbed-side car instructions to all that wanted them. These scans show the underframe detail on the model. If I missed anyone, let me

Tim O'Connor wrote: "The aluminum & black paint scheme dates from the 1950's, I think." and "The cars rebuilt in the 1930's were box car red." Tim, you have it backwards. Richard's post is correct -

In a message dated 10/25/2004 8:02:50 AM Central Daylight Time, smithbf@... writes: This IS a great way to get the sides cleaned out, but one word of caution... I was happily sanding

Armand Premo asked: "Where is (Railway Prototype Cyclopedia) Volume 10?" It's been out on the streets for almost five months now. http://geocities.com/rpcyc/v10.html Ben Hom

One more: p 33: East of Roanoke, VA, August 1956 A very shiny N&W coal gon two cars ahead of the caboose. Ben Hom

Catching up on some correspondence - here are a few photos of interest in the Fall 2004 issue of Classic Trains: p 4: Palmerston, Ont., October 1957 The subject of this photo is CN 4-6-0 No. 1576,