In an effort to add more color to my fleet I have revised a P2K flat car from black to the UP. I have liked this car since I saw Bob Smaus version in MR a few years ago. Then Ted's vol IV of

So what kit models one of these? I am sure it has been mentioned before, but am in the midst of distancing grocery shopping for Easter dinner.... TIA, Joe Binish

Actually, no. It was June 1960, not 1961. I've corrected the post. Tom M.

Schuyler That could be mistaken - Someone must have told me the cars were built by Mount Vernon Car (MVC) but Pacific Car & Foundry is

It looks like the short answer is “no.” There was an inverse dreadnaught end in the Sunshine mini kit for ATSF furniture cars, and I have stolen one from one of my kits for use elsewhere.

Thanks Tom, very much. These shots certainly clarify what is going on around the Hooker site, and the panorama very clearly shows what those piers or booms or whatever they’d be called are for.

This huge industrial area of Tacoma is the Tidal Flats - directly connected to Puget Sound. There is fresh water too, but these waters flow back & forth with the tide. This is now the location of a

It's not a river - it's a tidal basin. The first two images are file photos from an April 2017 article in the Tacoma News Tribune regarding cleanup of the Hooker site. The third photo is a panorama

Regarding the opposite river bank. I think that those are winter moorings for power boats. They drive in and are individually lifted out of the water for winter storage in their own garage. I am

Not the recreational boat houses. I meant the arrangement directly across the river, with the rectangular part in the middle, and long dividers parallel to the flow of the river. Are those to retain

BAR 7123 -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Not sure which arrangement you're talking about, but there are boat houses (for recreational boats) to the left and to the right are places where log rafts are kept before the logs go to saw

I have extras if anyone is looking for the kits. I bought too many I guess out of sheer excitement at the time. They are excellent models. :-) --

Yes, as someone said, the Sioux Falls plant held the record for 125 cars in one day, or something like that. But the thread started with my question about the Morrell plant in Ottumwa, IA. We don't

Probably has been asked and answered but does anyone know when Hooker adopted the orange and black paint scheme? Allen Cain

Great shot! Would model it but would go broke buying those great orange and black tank cars! Allen Cain

The Northern New England Color Guide has several photos of these in solid orange paint. However, the earliest picture is 5/57 showing two cars fresh out of the Derby shops Therefore, this may have

And check out those CLEAN patches on the wood reefer - I suppose to make the reporting marks and other data legible! I'll bet no modelers have done that. :-P In

Well, my first thought about this spectacular photo was "Wow, a snap-track layout!" Well, not quite, the radii are larger than even 22", but I also would like to know what is that arrangement on the

There were DEFINITELY slaughterhouses that could produce 50 loads per day! A full load of beef sides or pork bellies probably had barely 20 tons of meat, if that. I once read a PRR publication that