Dave, The short answer about shipping whole grapes versus just the juice is that most red wines require fermentation on the skins and seeds to produce the correct acidity and color. Even from deep

Ed and friends, When I was stationed in Long Beach with the U.S. Coast Guard, I occasionally ventured down to the harbor (rare, but then I sailed a desk for eight years). Near the Metropolitan

I waited for Thompson to respond, so I wouldn't get jeered at again, but he's apparently busy working on a book. I haven't seen the MDC model in Overnight paint/lettering, so I don't know which

John Nehric wrote: Rural dirt yellow and industrial black make Pullman Green? I wonder where Dubin came up with that notion, which I find seriously lacking in credibility. Copper oxide pigment was

I'm surprised bauxite/alumina would travel west over Sherman, since a lot of it came into Portland OR and was loaded onto trains for the trip up the Columbia and into Montana. Before the war there was

John Nehrich wrote: Then Richard wrote: Rural dirt yellow and industrial black make Pullman Green? I wonder where Dubin came up with that notion, which I find seriously lacking in credibility.

Keith Jordan wrote: Thanks, Keith. That's a good deal easier to accept. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

But getting back to the original reason I asked about this - since the TW cars lasted until '49 at least, which of the Red Caboose cars might have lasted past 1938 or were repainted in more modest

Richard - MDC has this version posted on their web site. Yes, I agree it would be far too wrong even the scheme is correct, but it is even "wronger" if the scheme was never used on anything other

John Nehrich writes: As hard as you like, John. Beyond the 40-ft. length, I'd say the cars are totally different. Doors, BTW, are also wrong on the MDC kit; so I'd say it was about a complete miss

Tony - I think the MDC car is an attempt to model the Santa Fe 7 panel Pratt truss cars, but on their 1937 AAR box car body. But if I remember, their earlier cast metal version had a Howe truss,

John Nehrich wrote: Same car body, John, just assembled from separate cast metal pieces rather than one piece of styrene: rectangular panel roof, 4-5 Dreadnaught ends, (poorly rendered) AAR

I know that the CN had straight side flats akin to the Tichy kit, but they also had cars in the 659000 series (the number Red Caboose uses). Were these also straight side cars? Did they have 12

John Nehrich wrote: John, I only have a couple of photos of the prototypes for the RC wine reefers, but they don't entirely confirm your conclusions. Both are W. C. Whittaker photos taken before WW

Richard - I'm not sure how much time was given to repaint the billboard schemes. I kept coming back to the one article in the '42 MR that bemoaned the total loss of these gaudy cars, and as a

Brock's Fourth Law [ or was it the third? ] of Freight Cars is broken. Previously I had been led to believe that Santa Fe reefers only traveled on UP tracks in a westward direction [ implying being

We were in Montreal for our usual anniversary celebration Christmas week when we got word of the impending snow storm at home. Got home on Saturday @ 2:30 AM only to find a box from Bob Walker w/100

Well, I don't have the evidence to prove it but I'm inclined to say "certainly not." At any rate, we're talking about only a handful of cars here, as it's well documented that the billboard meat and