Randy Hammill responds: ***** Those look like Improved Dreadnaught Ends for 10’0” IH cars. They have been described as having rolling pin shaped corrugations and a stiffening rib at the top.

3/4 or 0/3/4 (if you define ends from the top down), or 4/3 or 4/3/0 (Bottom up) 10’ ends – probably Intermountain. Ed Hawkins defines this as IDN Type 1 or IDN-1. A little bit of Excel work on

Folks: Paul Backenstose, one of the leaders of the Valley Forge RPM in Malvern, Pa., has asked me to help spread the work about the meet's cancellation. Suburban Philadelphia has been heavily impacted

A very distinctive boxcar and a very finer build, paint and weathering job. The joys of working under a deadline! Gary Laakso

Greetings, I completed Soo Line 133542 last night, just in time for this weekend's Twin Cities Railroad Modeler's Retreat. It is a Speedwitch K108 Soo Line Sawtooth Single Sheathed Box Car kit,

Scott, sounds interesting. Can you share a copy of the handout or point me to where it can be found? JimH

Ben, Are these the cars with the Murphy corrugated ends? Dennis Storzek

I have always used .040” styrene for scratchbuilding freight cars. You can get Evergreen directly from their website: https://evergreenscalemodels.com/ Jack Burgess

Some time ago Ted did a kitbash clinic and one of the cars was an FGEX reefer with unique steel sides and fishbelly floor. I was going to take a swing at it as I am a reefer-aholic. What is the

I recently ordered eight containers from English to model the G22 load. Containers are nice, but expensive. Nelson

Bob; It is a nice photo originally taken by PRR, in that it shows a “non-upgraded” G22 (not G22B), capable of transporting only 8 HB1, not the twelve carried in the G22B. The trucks are

Photo: PRR Gondola With Containers https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_19375 Caption: "G22 gondola car #352091, loaded with HB1 containers" Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

In the 50's, there was dedicated covered hopper service for soda ash from the Pittsburg Plate Glass factory in Barberton, Ohio. The factory was started as Columbia Chemical and was the site of the

Hi I am looking at the indented - or is it inverse - end on these cars, and wondering if there is any kind of a diagram or drawing showing the pattern of pressings, without tackbboards, brake and

SOME of the SP B-50-27 box cars had the earlier ends without the extra thin rib at the top. I've enclosed two photos to show this - SP 100303 and 100441. Evidently the ends changed during the

Is there a plastic 10-0 IH AAR box car body out there with 10 panel sides and 8 foot doors? That would be the body to use for the M-56. ============================================== -- *Tim

Hello- I am aware of three Improved Dreadnaught Ends made by Intermountain for their 10'0" IH box cars. All three have pins on the backsides to place into IM's 10'0" box cars, including their '37 AAR

Am I missing something? I saw this post when it first appeared, and meant to print the photo but didn't. Today the paper clip icon is still there, but the photo seems to be AWOL. Ron Merrick

I believe those are the Intermountain ends that were designed for the '12-panel' 40' boxcar. The spotting feature are those holes across the middle rib, which were intended for use with the (after

The St Louis meet is a great RPM gathering, but there are a several on the calendar before the St Louis event. The Railroad Modelers Retreat in Minnesota has been growing. The Toronto RPM, RPM Valley