Chuck: Not sure about 15, but I must have at least 10 Tichy AB sets kicking around, never to be used. Contact me off list, and we'll figure something out to solve your shortfall. -- Dave

Folks, The Winter, 2020 issue (#115) of The Keystone Modeler is now available on the NEW PRRT&HS web site. To get there, simply click on www.prrths.org/tkm To download the issue, as well as several

tom: MANY THANKS, out of curiosity, did mathieson merge or get bought out, i ask because they had their own reporting marks at one time "malx & mawx"?@, besides the leased "shpx", thanks again ;-) mel

Ed – Thanks for all the B&LE info. I’m trying to figure out where the B&M 7000 (2nd) HTs and 7600-7799 HMs came from. Both were ex-B&LE cars. Some info can be found here:

There are more photos of other Mathieson Dry Ice cars in the Merchant Despatch reefer book from Signature Press. Scott McDonald

Hi Chuck, I found these on Shapeways. They're ABD sets but the cylinders may work, and the price is right! https://tinyurl.com/2uls9nyc Scott

Group, I want to start a project to convert about 15 reefer cars from K brakes to AB brakes and need brake reservoirs. I don't want to steal just the reservoirs from Tichy or other sets and have

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 11:36 AM, mel perry wrote: out of curiousity whose reporting marks? thanksI read it as NX 8884. NX was National Car Co., a subsidiary of Fruit Growers Express. Dennis Storzek

Tom Madden wrote: And NX, of course, is one of the reporting marks of National Car Co., an FGE subsidiary. They leased cars to lots of people, obviously including Mathieson. Tony Thompson tony@...

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 12:36 PM, mel perry wrote: out of curiousity whose reporting marks? thanks ;-)According to the on line list of railroad reporting marks, NX = Mathieson Dry Ice. Tom Madden

Dennis, According to B&LE diagrams for the 90-ton cars built in 1931 (HT4) through 1941 (HT17, HT19, HT21, HT22), the trucks all had a 5’-8” wheel base as did the HT16 & HT18 cars with 70-ton

Friends, That is a neat history Rich Yoder came up with. Saltville, Virginia, was the home yard for at least some of these cars (says so in at least one photo) at the end of a N&W branch. Mathieson

out of curiousity whose reporting marks? thanks ;-)

Fellow Steam Freight Car modelers and historians; Please rest assured that the steamerafreightcars.com site hasn't perished. The site was down due to a problem resulting

November 1961 on the CNJ at Lake Junction, NJ. Matheson 8884, a fairly modern plug door dry ice car, follows Erie and LV covered hoppers behind Baldwins 72 and (I think) 74 northbound after picking up

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 05:22 PM, Ed Hawkins wrote: Photo of repaired 75325 1-53 p. 227, 1953 CBC (also in 1957, 1961). Links to GSC photos of 60476 5-49, 66624 7-50, 50645

In The Pipeline: A New HO Scale Santa Fe Prototype Model Sometime next month a major manufacture will announce a new, plastic R-T-R HO scale model of a Santa Fe freight car from the early and

Nice photo of a Mather 50’ stockcar. Built by “marrying” two 40’ cars. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Photo: NKP Livestock Car 41001 Courtesy of Adam C. Matthews on Facebook. He comments: "Where's the beef? It's riding the Nickel Plate! Shipping up to six trains of livestock per day, and faster than

To follow on to Dan Mitchell's summary, here's a quick history of the Mathieson cars from Rich Yoder: http://www.richyodermodels.com/mathieson_history.htm Ben Hom