David; I think so, too. Anything you care to add on P&WV is of great interest. I am slowly working my way thru the P&WV freight car fleet for a presentation requested by folks that are fans, but

M-55C built by General American in 1945. Sunshine produced an M-55 kit but is that the same as this car? Does anyone make good decals for this Sentinel paint scheme?

I’ve applied route cards, placards, and remnants to many freight cars in my fleet. Here’s a blog post with details and images.

Guy, The decal set for the 15' door car is the "as built" without specific Evans statements Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

IIRC, there about a dozen of these B&O M-55 cars wearing this paint scheme. Many others were in the more typical red with B&O lettering. More info starts on page 29 of this B&O Modeler issue.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 09:28 PM, Todd Sullivan wrote: Well, Bill, I couldn't resist replying to that one. Canopy cement (or Hob-e-Tak which I use) is hte answer. Apply a very small dot on the car

Andy, While loading over the trucks only was apparently true of 52' and 65' (yes, the latter did carry coil sometimes) gondolas in WP and D&RGW coil service, it didn't apply to the 29' series

Peter, yes SLSX 71548 is a 40’ double deck car with a door on each level. The 71000-71199 were all double deck stockcars, and unless a photo shows otherwise, all had four doors. As far as I

Even with its very low mounted bottom door track the Yougstown door still is a 5/6/5-Short. Along with the ends, the color scheme makes for an interesting, well-travelled Eastern box car. -Andy

I discovered that plant two years ago when I spent a week in Holland, MI with the grand kids, and the track was still in at that time, and looked active. That line runs between the street and a big

Indeed. Beautiful model. Schuyler

Pierre Oliver, You’ve done an excellent job on these various kits. Are you offering the appropriate decals for the 65100-65199 series cars which were equipped with Evans

Bill Welch said, "I think little bit of decals would do the trick ... However not sure how to make them removable." Well, Bill, I couldn't resist replying to that one. Canopy cement (or Hob-e-Tak

I note two of those route cards are for the M&StL and the MILW, indicating this car was traveling in the upper Midwest. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

In the inimitable words of Sherman Potter, that's "Horse Hockey". I can cite hundreds of pieces of evidence that military loads in the use were tied down. That occurs in multiple ways, with multiple

And on another tangent, the third pic seems to show P&WV's 1920s project to rebuild their 1905CD hoppers. David Thompson

Just to fill in… When traditional cucumber pickles are made, you dump them into a vat in brine. The brine suppresses bad bacteria and having them in a liquid suppressed aerobes, and then there’s

Doug Harding wrote: I agree. The 1940s and 50s photos I have, definitely show tie-downs on all kinds of military loads, though chocks seemed to be the main restraint. Tony Thompson tony@...

May be true today, but the various photos I have of military loads show tiedowns. Attached are a couple of examples. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

I received this comment: "Generally military vehicles were not tied down, to facilitate emergency removal from the rail cars." Can anyone verify or dispute this? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA