I've been poking around through the archives, but haven't found a clear answer. Am I correct in assuming that these would have stayed on home rails while in milk service? I found info that they wandered widely once they were converted to express cars, but nothing about whether they roamed about while in milk service. Thanks,
Dave

Photo: Rock Island Automobile Boxcar 59074 (Undated)

Cropped photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website.

Taken at Oklahoma City.

Double-sheathed car.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA

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Lester,
  Excellent - both the car itself -and- the blog entry documenting what you did to
produce it.  Thanks!

  I have two questions.  First - it seems, from the pics, that the ends of the car
are just a tad shiny compared to the sides and roof.  Is that just a trick of the
lighting for the picture?
  Second - have you ever tried using a dry brush technique to add just a touch
of color to the details (such as the grabs and ladders) that is a few subtle shades
different from the car body color ... in order to make them just ever so more
noticeable?

  I liked your coverage of the underbody.  It made me want to say - don't paint it
because you can't see the details after they are painted.  *G*  As both a
modeler and 'researcher' I wanted to -see- the underbody as much as have it
be the correct look for a finished car. 

  Very NICE car - thanks for posting the link.
                                                                                                - Jim in the PNW

Richard, 131.1 has a Duryea underframe while 131.4 has an AAR underframe.

-Phil Lee

I built and upgraded a Great Northern (GN) stock car kit.  I built the Accurail GN  stock single deck stock car in GN class SM that I numbered 55756.  The Accurail kit is a excellent match for GN prototype.  Upgrade includes carving off molded on parts, adding wire grab irons & ladder rungs, etc.  If you are interested in the build of  Great Northern stock car 55756, photos and write up of the build process including painting mineral red, lettering from various sources and weathering are now available on my blog I have to share photos and information of modeling projects on my Minneapolis & Northland Railroad Company.  If you would like to take a look please do at the following link:

 

http://mnrailroadcab100.blogspot.com/

 

Lester Breuer
Plymouth, MN

I'm 95% sure WMRHS has found documentation of cars painted black in the teens and 20s. Of course you could still argue that maybe they were supposed to be black on paper, and turned out red, but that's highly unlikely!

The Protocraft site states the Diamod logos were added in early 1950`s repaints - see link 
Protocraft

Bill

John,
I can't find that info in any of my references,  all the pictures I have of that series is after your modeling date but I will keep digging. In the mean time here is the layout page for that series, it shows the logo.

Bill

While reading through the consists on canadasouthern.com, I found that Bay Terminal tank cars (reporting mark BT) were apparently sometimes seen in NYC trains on the Toledo and Lake Divisions and were routed at least as far west as Minneapolis and at least as far east as Pittsburgh. So modeling one is of some interest.

The question is, what were they? I can't find any record of the types of tank cars BT used during the transition era (although they apparently owned 325 in 1950s). The closest resource I've been able to find is a 1917 document in which BT uses a variety of tank cars owned by different companies.

https://www.labellemodels.com/manuals/Bay%20Terminal.pdf

Does anyone have any insight into the BT tank cars of the transition era or photos?

-Phil Lee

All: Please be advised that due to an overwhelming response, most of the resin kits have already been spoken for!  I have been promised an updated list of what is available.  

Mark

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Ted Larson
Trainweb.org/MHRR   ---   GN in 1965   ---   NASG.org 

A local model railroader passed away recently leaving behind a large collection of HO scale brass and plastic locomotives and rolling stock.  There is also a sizeable number of unbuilt resin kits from Funaro and Camerlengo, Sunshine Models and Speedwitch Media and several smaller resin kit manufacturers. Many of the models are from the steam era.  The resin kits in particular are going for very reasonable prices!  

A member of the local NMRA organization is helping the family to dispose of this collection.  If you have an interest in the list of models for sale, please contact me OFF LIST at: mrossiter327 ‘at’ gmail.com for the list and contact information for the person handling the sales.  

Mark Rossiter