Regarding the weathering of frt cars, I was just reading about PFE's washing program. From the PFE book, "In the postwar period, PFE continued to wash car exteriors, averaging almost 11,000 cars per

don't say that if it's good enough for Byron and I differ on this all the time. When modeling a car you have to work to the EXPECTATIONS of the purchaser. Frankly, I think models look better with

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:22:42 -0700 (PDT) John Golden <golden1014@...> writes: Hi John, I did it, I checked out your PhotoPoint.com web site. Neat idea to show off what you can actually get

John, See? There ya go, I know I'd love to have a few of those boxcars running around on my future layout. I'll have to wait about trying to get you to sell me some, I have such a backlog

Hi Tim, Great idea about the car parts! I certainly would be interested and I think a lot of other guys would too. One thing the Internet (and all these SIGs and Forums) have taught me is that

Hi Bill Actually i was refering to the Gren Bay Route affiliated "Western Refigerator" company, which did also have some sort of affiation with NWX too. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** Bill

Like several others, I have the Proto:HO Accumate couplers for testing. While I wanted to try them in different environments before reporting back, I think I'll go ahead and comment. First, regarding

Richard wrote, regarding Ben's files: Ben hasn't commented on this yet, but it's certainly true that the bells and whistles tend to disappear when you save a data file in one of the universal formats,

I've never found that I needed anything more sophisticated than Filemaker Pro 2.1, which dates back to 1994. Do you suppose it would enable me to work with Ben's files? My very limited past

I'm still having dialogue with Kadee on trying to get the M&StL P-S1 box cars on the market. I or they need slides or photos of the 50ft'ers. It seems the one slide I sent them taken in the late 70's

Hey, I resemble that remark! Just wait until the third quarter of this year, when Intel releases the new Pentium V Processor (TM), which will operate at very high speed, and include both DCC and PFM

John Nehrich wrote: No, in fact most of them kept their original trucks but got wrought steel wheels and, in at least some cases, coil-elliptic springs. More common than you might think. When

Jeff, The museum at union IL west of Chicago has several cars like the one you described. As I remember most are orange and black URTX (Milw?) with regular doors. The only plug door I can remember

There are a couple of very interesting files on the M&StL mailing list at Yahoogroups. One is a list of all cars set out for hotboxes in 1948, 1949, and 1950 -- with identification of the cars and

Larry - No, that's not why I didn't mention the USRA cars. They were built to the government's standards, not the individual road's, and at times forced down the throat of the railroads that got

right- I suppose only on the PRR would a group of nearly 10,000 cars be thought of as "non-standard"!!! L.R. King

I was looking at some early PRR box cars and it appears that all their box cars prior to their X29's had left-ward opening doors. Can anyone confirm this or does anyone know any exceptions? - John

Seen at the NYS&W engine house in Binghamton, NY: a vintage refrigerator car with reporting marks CACV 24007. This car is a 40-ft ice reefer with plug doors, Dartnaught ends (didn't we agree on a

I think Ed Hawkins suggested Car Builders ends? Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts

50' RBL's MODX 2000-2099 were built in 1955 by PC&F There were some WADX 40 foot cars built in 1955 too. They could easily be modeled from the future 40 foot Branchline kits. Don't know about the