Folks, Does anyone out there have a phone number or better yet an email address for Al Chione? The last time I tried to contact him (a number of years ago) he lived in Durango, Colorado. However, I

See Railroad Model Craftsman, December 1989. These cars were renumbered at some time. I have 1996 photos of MEC #812 sitting in the yard in Nashua NH. Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> *** NEW

Much appreciation to everyone for their info on the Ertl MEC gon. I'll order RMC back issue 5/89 from Carstens to have Chuck Yungkurth's article and will strip/redo the CofG gon. Final question--my

CofG 16550-16625 were cut down from USRA composite gon clones in the 1930s, and rebuilt with steel sides in the 1940s. David Thompson

Rectangular logo, 1940 CBC, p.143. David Thompson

Paul Lee wrote: I picked up an Ertl gon over the weekend for next to nothing. Central of Georgia--bogus scheme, right? Haven't found any mention of the CofG gon in any discussion group index. In

Paul, The MEC low-side 41' 6" series was #17000-17149. Tim Gilbert

Ted, You wrote: On page 89 of Ed Kaminski's THE MAGOR CAR CORPORATION, there is a builder's photo of MEC #4500 with a RECTANGULAR Herald. #4500 was the first car of the 40' 5", 9' 3" IH, 3,272 CF

I picked up an Ertl gon over the weekend for next to nothing. Central of Georgia--bogus scheme, right? Haven't found any mention of the CofG gon in any discussion group index. In the Jim Six

I have my line wrap e set at 70 and the all cap message fit into mine with out wrapping. Thank you Larry Jackman Jeff English wrote:

I would guess that the Ertl gondola was made from my drawings of the MEC car in RMC. I made the drawings from measurements of one of the cars spotted in the D&H yard in Binghamton. I would say that

No, not "pleasant thoughts", "Pleasanton", as in "Pleasanton, California", the location of Sunshine Models' Prototype Modelers' Seminar. And truth be told, I had a very pleasant time. I missed the

b.hom@... writes: Paul and Ben, these aren't even close to C of Ga gons. The CG had some USRA style clones without drop bottoms. The Central later modified some of these by cutting

By coincidence, I just found some information about the TM8 and TM10 cars at the Penna. State Archives, while looking for something else. The 48 TM8 cars were all built in 1916 by AC&F. They were

I responded to Al W.'s post regarding the original Pine Tree herald on the MEC that it was introduced in 1936. My info came from a post on the MEC list on Yahoo Groups (to my inquiry about when

Ian Clasper wrote: The Pennsy acquired the TM8 and TM8a cars from a variety of private car operators to service the diesel fleet. I do not have the data on these cars, however there was an article

Sorry for the wasted bandwidth... Changing email addresses is almost as hard as moving. Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> *** NEW EMAIL ADDRESS *** Sterling, Massachusetts

I've seen side frames like this on a Canadian car (cant' remember which one) which had lower than normal bolster height, that is the body bolster came down lower to the ground than was the case

<SNIP> Charlie and Jack, As co-publisher of these books, please let me address this table. The color matches shown in the table in Volume 3 are a "guide" to matching prototype paint colors of new

Greetings, I'm looking for photos of Pennsalt Carriers Corporation tank cars (TELX) used in chlorine and caustic soda service at or near the 1960 cutoff date of this list. The chlorine cars were