I've thrown together an abbreviated list of car builders (there were so many small firms), and this is linked off our home page: http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/index.html I plan on compiling a

Charlie: As a Seaboard fan I would be quite interested in reading anything about the Seaboard in 1943. Richard Stallworth

If anyone is interested, I can post excerpts from the few conductor books that I have. They feature ATSF passenger trains through Ft. Madison, Iowa; 1943 Seaboard trains through Charleston, S.C.

The RF&P #2925 was built in 1960 -- interesting shot because it has a black roof, while Kadee's model has a galvanized roof. The PRR flat car shot with the REA trucks is great! Note that those trucks

Dave, I know you mean that humorously, but the car in that photo is nearly 30 years old and as Byron has pointed out, the wood on the car sides looked like that only at the very end of their lives,

I knew it was 9, 10, or 11. What is the car number? I can't make out more than the 205xxx Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Sterling, Massachusetts

In a message dated 8/4/01 7:19:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, timoconnor@... writes: << I knew it was 9, 10, or 11. What is the car number? I can't make out more than the 205xxx

this one is very interesting: http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/rolling-stock/Propst's-photos/morx9548-5805-sdm.jpg The car on the left has a raised roof and I'd like to know what class the SP

I've raced through and posted a bunch more (about a dozen) on the Clark Propst photo album, linked off our home page (http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/index.html) Even though this isn't complete, I

In a message dated 8/3/01 8:39:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time, muskoka@... writes: << The car on the left has a raised roof and I'd like to know what class the SP car on the right is....

The following is from a friend of Ted Gleichmann's who asked 3M about removing old Scotch tape from the surface of a builder's photograph and paper spec card without damaging the artifact. The

Harry Sandlin <hsandlin@...> would like to join the STFMC. AC

Bill, I will get a check out to you with whatever copies I can find of the photos you want. Should be by the weekend, I hope. But I've said that before! BSR On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:17:32 -0400

For those below on this list who wanted the odd UP herald (with reversed red and white stripes) used on a few PFE reefers, our order arrived. They look great! As I stated in my previous message that

John Nehrich notes: better I, too, have wished as much. In fact, I'll just take the ribs. Now, before anyone has a stroke, I realize that there were ribs and there were ribs. I also wish that a

Richard Hendrickson sez Richard, chopping up a kit until the only thing that remains is a handful of modified side panels would certainly work if the rib spacing is just right.... but it is no more a

"Benjamin Hom" <bhom3@...> wrote: NYC 162000 - 163999, Lot 743-B, blt 9-45 = 11-45 by DSI at East Rochester. 4-4 IDE, rectangular-panel roof, early-style Youngstown doors, painted all-f.c.

I just spent the last two minutes assembling the Bowser F-30a flat car. Are the kit's trucks correct? I'm going to have to replace the molded on grabs or something. It's just not right to have a model

Check this one out: http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics27/00033292.jpg The photo caption sez "Dock scene at Los Angeles Harbor on Southern Pacific Tracks, 1925." That may or may not be an SP gondola, the