Don Winter says: True, but every proprietary roof entry in an early CBD or CBC says "galvanized." Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Ted Culotta said: Well, Ted, put it on your Christmas list for one of these years. I will speak to Santa on your behalf. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden

Hey!!! <g> At one PCR convention some twenty years plus ago, as a small group of us were in the parking lot packing up our displays and getting ready to leave, and watching a number of last-day

Hey Rich Why don't you volunteer to help Rutger Friberg on the engineering committee to get the standards back into focus. I know hes looking for good people that have a in depth background on

ALL hobbies are losing ground with magazines. Magazines are basically dinosaurs. The internet has killed the industry for hobbies. How thick is Hemmings Motor News anymore? Over in Birdland out of

Richard and List- Can't agree with you more. The worst thing is that "they" are blaming their decline on the "Graying of the Hobby"... an Urban Legend if there ever was one. The New York Times even

Don't get me started, Ed. NMRA membership numbers are way down, one reason being that the NMRA does next to nothing for serious scale modelers, and the organization is in a financial crisis owing to

Greg, what issue? I must have missed it. Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Sterling, Massachusetts

Brian, There was an excellant article in Mainline Modeler (with drawings) of the car. Pick one up. Plenty of photos. Greg Martin

Gene, I don't have lettering diagrams but I do have Sunshine's PDS for the B-50-15/16 cars. It includes a photos of cars with the Southern Pacific lettering and the T&NO lettering. The SP is SOUT HE

Train Magazine Index on the internet. It lists over 63000 articles. Searches can be done by author, keyword, roadname, etc. A search on the topic "AAR" produced 93 articles going back to 1943. A

Tony: That's probably the animal. I have a photo from the late 1930's of a T&NO car in service. I really need a book about SP Freight Car (box cars, specifically) to help me keep them all

I wouldn't want to get Richard angry. Hmmmm...Richard, does this mean you don't have a place in your heart for the NMRA? :>) Ed Kaminski Visit my Home Page at

Bruce Smith writes: This article reaches a new low in ignorance of freight car history, based largely on half-truths, misinterpeetations, and speculation rather than actual research. And the fact is

Early Type 27 (note the proportions of the tank). Early Type 27s typically had four bands, as well as KC air brakes. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

Hehe...that reminds me, has anyone else read the article "How Old Are Those Old Fowler Boxcars" in the Dec NMRA Bulletin? With quotes like "I don't think by that time [1916] the Fowler Company could

They also hot dipped steel in zinc which is a different process than galvanization. Don Winter

Ned Carey asked: Ned, I don't specifically know about the USRA cars, but as early as 1906, the Car Builders Dictionary shows several brands of car roofs which are described as being galvanized. I

Ted Culotta writes: Are you thinking of the B-40 classes built on both SP and T&NO in 1917-1922? These did survive a long time (they had steel draft sills and cast steel body bolsters), but were

Ed: I would venture to say quite uncommon. The sway back effect, unless very minimal (and probably not very noticeable), would be a sign that the structural integrity of the car might be in