NWL for Spring 1993 has a full page photo of 89498 that does shoe the B end. This series has corrugated ends. I'll check my slide collection later Howard Garner

Tim O'Connor wrote: PFE paint faded to a pretty definite yellow. Tony

Dan Mitchell wrote: I agree. It's a copper converter. Tony Thompson tony@...

Clark I might have those issues. Attached is the only photo I have of a 86000 series boxcar. This comes from the library of congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017762790/ Doug

Richard The only photo I have is the one I posted here. Paul

Is there a photo showing what such roofs looked like? Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Here is my attempt at the Keeley hooks installed on my Sunshine version of the Illinois Central boxcar. I began by using Chain Nose pliers to form the initial loop with ,010 wire, then tightened this

In addition to their Bingham pit and Magma smelter/refining, Kennecott Copper also operated pits near Ely, NV and a mill/ smelter at McGill, NV. The ore was moved by KCC owned and operated trains from

Eric Apparently the original has a wood and covered with asphalt roofing sheets. Paul

Paul, Does the prototype have a flat panel roof? I just picked up a couple Red Caboose X29 roofs from Andy Carlson for a similar Accurail conversion to model an ACL O-16 single-sheathed boxcar. The

IMO the MDT, NP and PFE colors were pretty close, with the MDT and NP colors just a notch further down on the brightness scale. They fade differently though. NP colors would bleach to almost yellow.

Clark, IIRC, Red Caboose produced four slightly different car bodies to follow the different prototype side panel rivet patterns, panel overlays, and ends. I believe that info is noted in the

I haven’t looked at the photo of the car in question, but I would expect the P2K car to only be a stand-in. These cars were built by National Steel Car in 1958 – I suspect the Rapido car is much

My friend Bob once said “The more you know, the less you can model” In my case it’s - The more you know, the harder/longer it takes to build a model. I picked up a Red Caboose CGW X29 style box

Hi Pete, I’ve seen worse, and given the price some photos have sold on eBay, I’d say the price was fair – for the right photo anyway. I’d very happily pay that for good high res images of

Nice collection indeed. A few questions if you guys don't mind. Is the AC 724 the same gon as the P2K model in HO? The Texas Mexican 955 gon is interesting too, I don't think there is anything close

I have made a start on kit bashing an Accurail boxcar into a WP car as per Tony Thompson’s SP blog apparently some of these cars got a metal roof I must say it will not be in the Bill Welch league

Pete, The prices are not all that bad... it ain’t like the old days when film and paper were cheap, and darkroom labor was even cheaper... I’m sure they aren’t making a killing at those prices,

David, As has been mentioned here earlier*, orthochromatic (or blue sensitive) rendered yellow as a medium gray. It was used at the time because it was the best that was available at the time. While

Interesting collection. Watermarked because they are trying to sell the photos. $6.00-$10.00 is a little steep but more power to them. I did get some ideas for modeling a few freight cars. Pete