They don't show up in my list of cars similar to the Red Caboose car. I would guess -- NOT. Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts

John Nehrich writes: Whether MDC intended to model ANY protoype is unknown and, based on their track record, improbable. Most likely they were just doing another "interesting" kit using existing

Dave Nelson said: This is very true. My father-in-law used to work for Italian Swiss Colonies' ad agency, and the Calif. State Fair gave awards based on volume categories; the top volume included

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard's detective work is right on the money: the reweigh date is almost certainly the date of transfer to CDLX from PFE, as that is the month and year of the car's sale

I always wonder about the railroad's philosophy of ever stronger ends to deal with shifting loads. It's as if auto makers worried about making ever stronger windshields rather than sitbelts and air

Regarding cross posting (i.e., posting messages simultaneously to this list and FC): I dunno what the list owner prefers, so Mike, speak up here, but for myself, I *strongly* prefer people do not

Larry Kline asked me to post this. This looks like a great event. Prototype Modelers Seminar - East 2001 1:00 PM Friday, March 23 through 6:00 PM Saturday, March 24, 2001 Holiday Inn, Monroeville

Dave Nelson writes: list Hockey? but that nonetheless, redundant messages are NOT welcomed by me. I would think that, given the purpose of the STMFC, cross posting would be kept at a minimum. I

Mike and friends, I agree strongly with Dave on this one. Since I do all my e-mail at work using stolen moments between tasks, I can't afford the time for deleting duplicate messages. Kind

I asked the PM-list: George Hollwedel replied If you get answers back direct, please send me cc's as I am doing the N ones as well. Hi George, Well, the silence has been deafening. It's sort of

Bob Schliecher had an article maybe a decade ago on the side dump cars, and said that while intended mainly for ballast, on occasion they were used for coal. I think that while sometimes they were

I have both builder's and in-service photos of these cars which show both original and later lettering arrangements. Though both photos are b/w, it appears to me that, in both the 1941 builder's shot

Richard - I ran to my Cycs. thinking this would be an easy task to post a picture, but realized I could find any. If you can send me the scan(s), I'd be glad to post them on our ECW section so other

Richard, Thanks! I'll take those JPEGs! The builders photo must be of the third group of 14 cars, #499050-68, built in 1941 in East Rochester (I grew up just down the street!). The first two

John Nehrich wrote: I've never seen any photographic evidence that Hart Selective ballast hoppers or the similar cars with dump mechanisms by Enterprise and other mfrs. (which I assume are the cars

John Nehrich wrote: That's the earliest date I've seen for cars with Dreadnaught ends. And it seems significant that they're not shown in the 1925 Car Builders' Cyclopedia, where they would surely

Does anyone know an address for Tichy? I used the one on the box but the letter came back as insufficient address. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax DCC owner, Chief

Hi John: The 659000-659999 and similar 660000-6601999 series flat cars have been given a fairly complete treatment by me in two issues of CN LINES (Vol. 5 No.'s 3 and 4) [high quality Back Issue

Jon Miller wrote: Jon, I just received today one of Tichy's new kits for the War Emergency composite gondolas and the address on the instruction sheet is Tichy Train Group, P. O. Box 39, Plainview,

Stafford - Thanks. - John