Joe, Have you tried eBay? Or your local train show? These things are fairly common, and can usually be had for a reasonable price. Kind regards, Garth Groff Joseph Lofland wrote: \

Dear List I am looking for an HO Proto 2000 50 ft. double door box car , no end doors non auto car. Does anyone have one they are willing to part with? Please contact me off list. Joe

Bill, I'm surprised Tony hasn't taken you to task for this statement. I suspect that the Central Pacific/Southern Pacific was the largest operator of these cars. I haven't memorized the totals in

The C&O ventilator fleet re-started with 1000 cars in the 1920-30s (C&O 86500-86999 and C&O 87000-87499).  they also ordered 50 reefers at the time.  The first series was better insulated in their

The C&O in the mid-50s converted regular C&O and PM 70-ton gondola cars into these.  They reference the PRR skid system longitudinal shocks absorber springs in their experiments.  They even made

Hello Peter, I've followed Richard's lead on this, and used Mineral Brown on all the Santa Fe stockcars I've done. I've never seen a color photo of an ATSF stockcar with a black roof either. So

Bill,       As a member of the Central of Georgia Historical Society, I read about the society aving Jim King run a kit recently with the roof you mentioned.  Go to the Socities website and use

Howdy!        With all the discussion of Central of Georgia Ventilator cars moving melons, I thought it might be useful to relate some additional information on moving watermelons.       

Thanks, Ed! That is great info. You are the man! Elden Gatwood

Elden and Rich, The G31, G31B, and G35 all used 3 types of lever-type hand brakes, including Klasing as well as Universal and Equipco. Larry Kline did some digging in PRR company files and recently

I am currently building a bunch of ATSF stock cars from Westerfield, Sunshine and InterMountain kits as they would have looked in 1950. I wonder about the color of the roof. Normal ATSF freight car

Because the HO kit of the Central of Georgia ventilator had an Outside Metal Roof instead of the improved cars with the Hutchins like roof, I passed on buying one as I could not imagine how to create

Lee Gautreaux asks about wandering watermelon loaded CofG ventilated cars, and modeling watermelon loads. For whatever it may be worth, as a kid I remember climbing aboard an open, recently emptied

The talk of Ventilated cars makes me pine for the SAL vents in resin, hopefully both the V-9 and V-10, but even one would be nice. Bill Welch

The L&N, CofG, SAL and ACL were the largest owners of Vents with about 2000 per fleet at their peak while the N&W, Southern, C&O, and C&WC were much much smaller fleets of 100 to 400

Rich; As far as I can see, the G31 are almost identical to the later classes, but for the steel floor; however, there are some little details that one also could consider: 1) the tie-down clips are

Gentlemen, A kind reminder. Ventilated boxcars in this era were normally equipped with two doors on each side; one screen door and one solid door. For half the year or more, these cars were operated

Elden, As you have researched and published articles and presented clinics on these cars, since the floor of the Tangent car is removable, would simply changing the floor to steel convert these to a

Gatwood, Elden J SAD wrote: