Me, too!

Tony, Do you think the GTW cars also carried meat, or might they have been in some other service? If so, does anyone on this list know of a major meat packer in GTW territory who might have shipped

Don't remember it being mentioned but Westerfield sells decals too! They appear to be all $4 but I didn't check every one. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr

Garth Groff wrote: Garth, by far the predominant use of those 8-hatch cars was for export meat, either to Canadian ports to go overseas, or to the U.S. You're right about the empty probably

If I recall correctly there was a message in this group several months ago that InterMountain was tooling a roof with inverted T-section roof seams for their 1958 cu ft covered hoppers. I tried but I

Ralph Heiss wrote: A perfectly reasonable question, Ralph, and though I don't know about NYC specifically, the early covered hoppers were VERY dominantly assigned to cement service. Some

Me: "Hi, My name is Dave. I buy kits of steam era freight cars... resin kits". Audience: "Hi Dave". Me: "I started slow, buying just a few and actually building the kits, but as time went on I was

Sunshine decal only orders are faster. Occasionally only a month. I don't know of any restriction on buying decals from new kits. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon www.sunshinekits.com

Thanks Al and Jim. That figures, I am just wrapping up scratchbuilding the sides for my B5 and the kit is announced. Wonder if Martin will sell me decals for his newest releases. I am glad to know

I'll be your sponsor. Step one is to send all your resin kits to me. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon www.sunshinekits.com

I think we should rename this group "Resin Cars Anonymous" ... any one want to be my "sponsor"? Only thing is ... twelve steps won't be near enough.

Of course, if rules were followed, the choice of route and destination were limited because of tariffs and other regs. re crossing the border.   One of the rules I don't have any insight into is how

Guys, The PRR provided cast iron "loading instruction" plates on the sides of their covered hoppers up to 1953 (stamped plates there after). In my den I have one such plate off a class H33

Please excuse a question that may be very sophmoric as well as being burried somewhere within the message archives, but I was wondering if someone could enlighten me to the use of covered hoppers in

You called it Tom. I tried to build a Sylvan trailer and the little hand car we were given and screwed both up badly! So, I went to my daughters to fix an eve trough and fell off the ladder....I sat

Martin was selling his overstock of orange EJ&E decals for that mini-kit. I have a couple of friend who model the 60s setting on theirs waiting for decals to do the half orange half green paint

Maybe I'm not getting this exactly right, and I wish Terry Link would tell us a more complete story, but I'd always been under the impression that many NYC cars in Canada were due to the use of CASO

Dale and friends, In Jim Harrison's SACRAMENTO NORTHERN GALLERY there is a photo taken circa 1956 of a short train at Lake Temescal near Oakland, California. The first car in the train is a GTW

Thanks, Tony! That makes the green EJ&E cars good for many folks on this list. And if the statements that the orange over green cars came along in 1952, that makes the absence of all of these EJ&E

A couple of thoughts on that: I think Bruce's point is that it needn't have been loaded on NYC or an affiliate. It could have been loaded on any line in any state. Of course, if rules were