Yeah, and 'sides, it's just an eastern road . . .8^/ SGL (Maybe we should talk about coal cars for a while . . .) E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.508) Database version:

David, Looking further, the 1965 ORER (post-N&W merger) shows all 50 of the gondolas still lettered for Wabash, and the 1972 ORER shows that 24 of them still had Wabash reporting marks. Since the

William Bryk wrote: Maybe not to all of us. Seems to have minimal importance for freight cars--we already know the validity period of the reporting marks. Tony Thompson Editor,

David Digging through the ORER's, sometime between 1955 and 1959 Wabash converted 33 of the 50 Wabash 12600-12649 series to Ford auto frame loading service. By 1963 all 50 cars were equipped for auto

While on the subject of Wabash repaints, does anyone have shots of the ACF 70-ton welded gondolas repainted into any Wabash schemes?  We are looking for repaint possibilities for the Tangent Scale

When I lived in SoCal Terry Wegman engraved a pair of "duckbill" pliers to make drop grabs for P2K gondolas as they do not match any commercially available grabs. You made the U shape the usual way

Thanks Richard, I did not have the earlier register, but your post really narrows it done to some time between April 1944 and October 1944 since the register cover dates are three months after the

Allen is referring to, I believe, the sidebar on p. 89 in Ted Culotta's fourth installment of the Essential Freight Car series in the July 2003 RMC on NP's double-sheathed boxcars. In the same issue

ironic: "type" should read "typo" -------------------------------------------------- Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 1:56 PM To: <STMFC@...> Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Bieber 1947 4th

Good catch Steve! With "01" tacked on, we'd have a 7 digit number. Allen - can you clarify if there is a type here? Rob Kirkham -------------------------------------------------- Sent: Sunday,

the space goes in front CN 479_02 should be CN 479202, a pair of pages for 02 has 002, 102, 202, ...,902 -- Allen Rueter StLouis MO ________________________________ To:

So, when were the first cars lettered CRP?<VBG> Its obviously post April 1944, but if, say it were May 1944, I might need a car lettered for CRP! Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Bill, I wish all kits would adopt the simple style of the Accurail 41' gondola kit - basically a flat slab onto which you can readily apply either an Accurail scale draft gear, Kadee 78, regular

That is correct, Bill, but CNJ was not the only road so burdened. It was, probably, the road most afflicted, because it wasn't a long distance road with the potential, at least, to offset those taxes

Bill, the coupler box covers on the IM flat cars are neatly held in place by small flat head screws. Richard Hendrickson

I have not seen the 70-ton flat cars yet. What is the method of installing the couplers on these cars. The experience I had with the IM reefers with the press fit coupler box cover resulted in

While I tend to prefer kits to RTR models, for all of the reasons that are often advanced on this list, IM's painting and lettering on the flat car models is very good and the decks come off to be

In fact, it started some time in 1944, as i said in an earlier post. The CNJ and CRP are listed separately in the 1/45 ORER. Richard Hendrickson

Part of the reason for the CRP was the remarkably high taxes levied on the CNJ by the State of New Jersey, which appear to have been based on the line's revenues throughout the system - including the

Allen--47902 would be a correct number for a company-service CN car that was confined to CN rails. But CN 47902_ would have been a 40', 10' i.h. steel boxcar, built by Canadian Car and Foundry with a