Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Oh, yes you would: 14083 E Tractors 31 Tons L Dock "E" = ERIE Wow, one whole home road car in a 66 car train on the Erie! So using this train as a sample size, if I modeled

Charlie Vlk responds to Bob Kutella's trad suggestion: I move that we also institute an award for the first response to the annual suggestion of a rating system. <bigger G> Tony Thompson

Can we stop this thread, we just did it about two weeks ago ... and that was the last time? Some guys just don't get it... It's all about revenue... Greg Martin

From the Feather River Train shop web pages: Product ID: FRNP1700 Category: N Scale-Feather River Train Shop Special Runs-Northern Pacific Cabeese N & Z Laser Cut Wood Kits Northern Pacific 1700

Following the posting of this fascinating train consist, Schuyler asks: "MBK" Where is this? Whose marks are "ARL?" Armour Refrigerator Line (not, as Tim G. suggested, ART; the loads are all

Although my photos are now packed for an upcoming move, I have seen a number of these cars still working in northern Ontario for ONR company service. What I recall is something very similar to the

One has to be careful about accepting museum display pieces as accurate representations of cars as they were in service on the railroads. First, the museums received the cars at the end of their

Regarding Bob Kutella's suggestion (albeit an annual one) that there is a need for a database of prototypes (or closest reasonable ones) for all the commercial freight car body moldings and lettering

Jace Kahn wrote: I have numerous photos that confirm those colors. From the mid-'30s through the mid-'50s MWR had 75 SS box cars in the 1201-1275 series that were leased from Mather. These were

Group, While researching the Wabash 50' steel automobile car roster, I noted that the railroad received 100 cars built by GATC in E. Chicago, Ind. in July 1955. The cars were numbered 20200-20299.

The earlier Mather 1201-1275 series was modeled by Sunshine, one of Martin's earliest kits, when Funaro was still doing some work for him. It was a bit rougher than Sunshine's later work but still

Ahhh, the "annual suggestion" of same. Maybe there could be an award for the person who raises this each year? <g> Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave.,

I think I recall some discussion quite a while ago on these cars but I seem to have lost the messages somewhere; having recently bought a built-up Mainline kit for one of the single-sheathed cars,

Bill Lane wrote: Bill, 1) Wrong tense - the PRR was! 2) With the exception maybe of hoppers, PRR's freight car fleet were regular visitors on most North American Railroads until 1968.

Two weeks ago I had a table at the Boeing Employees Model RR Club train show in the Seattle area. While there I bought a laser-kit for an HO NP 1700 series caboose. It was also available in N scale

smokeandsteam@... wrote: Aidrian, The principal reason behind painting almost any wood is to perserve the wood in the pre-Latex era. While the outer skin of pigment may have "disappeared," the

Guycwilber@... wrote: That may be true for tank cars, but not for reefers - PFE, ART, MDT, etc.. All of these were controlled by Railroads whether separately or jointly. URTX, SLSX, SRLX, etc.

Schuyler G Larrabee wrote: (Snip) No, it is LPTX, the reporting mark for the Live Poultry Transit Co.. ARL should be ART, the American Refrigerator Transit Co. I think that Conductor Thompson may

I discovered recently that some RRs ( Santa Fe for example) may have painted the *insides* of their composite gons. While the paint may not have lasted very long in the sort of service that these