Ray Breyer wrote: Many museums do operate tourist rides. I tried to point out that they have pressing concerns far more important than nitpicking, Ray, if you would read my post. And sure, you're

I can pass on from the horse's own mouth, that Byron had to make an educated guess about the arrangements of the brake equipment on the WM flat... the drawings represent that. Tim O'Connor

Jerry, "John D. Rockefeller's Secret Weapon" is a book written by Albert Z. Carr and published by McGraw-Hill in 1962. It's an excellent book on the history of Union Tank Line which, of course, was

Fellow Listers, Richard is right, and I should have clarified, that UTLX 14382 would have had white lettering when new, BUT it also would have had a green or red tank color. At one time both colors

Shawn Bechert fulminates: The lettering on UTLX 14387 represents standard UTL practice when the car was built, as far as it goes (some small data stenciling is omitted). And at that time, the

Ray Breyer wrote: Ray, not once in my post did I mention "tourist road". Tourist lines are a whole different animal - They're there to give train rides and make money. They usually don't care what

Andy,How do I reach you off list?AP

Kert you wrote... Kert, This car was the second largest class on the Pennsy for many years and since you have decided to use the Tichy kit you might want to refer to Mont Switzer's article in

Shawn, You are right on the mark. A wrongly painted/lettered piece of equipment is as as bad as an error in a book, magazine or on the internet. Once in "print", etc, it is considered as true by

Don, I have the instructions for Byron Rose' HO kit for these models. Byron is an underframe nit picker extraordinaire so I would trust his drawings. You may want to look at the entire instruction

Shawn Beckert wrote: It's obvious at most railroad museums that they don't really care all that much about accuracy. And indeed, they often have much more pressing issues: keeping the fan trips

Shawn, Always a touchy problem, and I see it touched you! Some of the early cars displayed at the CSRM were pretty awful. Now Kyle Williams Wyatt is trying to get things right on the equipment he

Fellow Seekers of Truth, And I wrote that with my tongue only half-in-cheek. What I'm about to say probably amounts to wishful thinking, and will no doubt get me in hot water with some people here,

Shawn, Thanks for the reply about the Rockefeller book. I'll start looking for one. Did you read the book "Titan", which is a recent Rockefeller biography? Excellent as well. Jerry Michels

The current thread is the first time I've heard that the Tichy USRA hoppers are too long. What I have noticed is that the Tichy USRA SS boxcar is longer than the Westerfield USRA SS boxcar kit. Can

Shameless, crass commercialism, part lV: I have Branchline's corrected length 40' undec cars now in stock. These come with 4 pairs of ends, 2 roofs, ladder sets in 8 rung and 7 rung, and 2 pairs of

shawn.beckert@... writes: Can you expound on this? Is it a book, article? Thanks! Jerry Michels

I was mistaken regarding the total number of freight cars in 1947 used to calculate the % of 50 ft. box cars. The actual number is around 3/4 million, not 1.1 million. This brings the % of 50 ft.

I have totally missed my estimated shipping time by weeks. I offer no excuses (well maybe- if anyone knows Terry, they might understand). I am hoping to get them to be packaged and sent soon. Will

FWIW, The Dec. 2000 issue of Mainline Modeler had an article "X26 USRA boxcar rebuild using a Tichy kit" by Mont Switzer. As I recall, he used the roof from a Accurail SS car grafted onto the Tichy