Interestingly, the Grand Trunk Western followed the US practicewith yellow-orange sides on their reefers. When in Rome... I guess. Dennis Storzek Dennis, actually GTW painted its steel8-hatch

The latest issue of the Nickel Plate Modeler’s Notebook isnow online and available for downloading. Your one stop for all things NKP,W&LE, LE&W and TStL&W modeling, Volume 25 features a tour of

My first post had spelling issues because I used voice to text. I have a problem and hoping someone here on the list can help. We have a digitrax system at the club where neither booster works as

I have a problem and hoping someone here on the list can help. We have a did you track system at the club where neither booster works as the master/command station. Both boosters work in the booster

---In STMFC@..., <lamontc@...> wrote : Certainly CN used their standard Red No. 11 (their version of boxcar red) on the woodside cars of the 1920s and 1930s for pretty much their entire career, and

Gentlemen, Does anyone have a photo of a Sunshine models WP single-sheathed box car you can share? I'd appreciate using it for a blog post I'm working on. If yo have something handy, and if I may

and Dennis Storzek replied: Certainly CN used their standard Red No. 11 (their version of boxcar red) on the woodside cars of the 1920s and 1930s for pretty much their entire career, and subsequently

I'm in need of a Broadway Limited single 6000 gal tank, preferable undec and with out the platform for a kit bash to narrow gauge project. Can anyone direct me to a source as they say they are

Dennis Storzek wrote: When I interviewed Earl Hopkins, retired CMO of PFE, he described a test done in the late 1940s by PFE, painting some ice car roofs aluminum and then instrumenting the car to

---In STMFC@..., <jekuban@...> wrote : Also, bright colors tend to reflect the sun's rays, thus taking some stress off the insulation. Dark colors tend to absorb heat, causing the insulation to be

Also, bright colors tend to reflect the sun's rays, thus taking some stress off the insulation. Dark colors tend to absorb heat, causing the insulation to be less effective. Jim Kubanick Morgantown WV

Recently in another discussion I learned about another product from 3M, called Scotchcals. The reason I wonder if the SP&S letters were "cals" rather than "lite" is because they never appear

or the later DESPATCH steel reefers :-(

Nelson Moyer returns to the Resin Car Works blog with the third part of his home CB&Q layout adventure. Roadbed and track are the focus of this latest

Too bad there is not an accurate model of MDT's most numerous wood-sheathed reefer. Bill Welch

And the scanned gov image is from a COPY of the original as you can see in the gov description. So there might be two color shifts; one of the film used to copy the original, one of the scanners

Bright reefer colors date back to the 1860's and the creation of "Fast Freight Lines" which were cars which could be interchanged in a time before the Master Car Builders Association (MCB, later the

Bright colors?................Why of course, advertising......Jim W.

Chuck Peck wrote: Two of the PFE retirees I interviewed emphasized that employees were very aware that they were food cars. That was one reason PFE washed its cars until the mid-1950s. Tony

Chuck Making them "stand out" makes sense - everyone in the yardaware that the loaded cars carried PERISHABLE lading, so maybe this aided expeditedhandling.