Ron, See Henry Maywald's CLASSIC FREIGHT CARS Volume 7, page 37 for a color photo of an MRS steel car in green. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

One last question re the prototype Mather cars -- any suggestions as to the green color? Probably greener than Pullman green. Maybe like the darker NP pine tree green? Or REA green? Ron Merrick

Starting a new thread. Now I'm the proud owner of a Sunshine 7.3 kit for the short (7'-8") Mather box. There is a bundle of narrow styrene strip taped to the bottom of the box, which one uses to form

MDC Plug Door Reefer ad, Model Railroader, October 1959. "Metal's Better." Ben Hom

Wow, they got things done in those days! A box car arrives with 55 tons of coal, is unloaded and cleaned, and reloaded and departs in just 24 hours with a load of corn! :-) -- *Tim

It is a real shame because at one time they did, or at least attempted. That is one reason they purchased the PK2 line from Lifelike. Obviously folks have retired who used to be concerned. The

fwiw i once asked my local hobby shop owner to query the walther's rep about why they were so indifferent to prototype accuracy, even with easy stuff like car numbers. the response was that walther's

I am sure I am not that adroit with a file. Bill Welch

Bill, I don't think it does have the straight bottom rib, but a file will solve that issue ; )) CW Propst

Doug, does the InterMountain end have the correct asymmetrical top rib? Bill Welch

The folks that model "early" times need some love this morning. Nice little snapshot of car loadings on the IC in Maroa, IL and few other small IL towns circa

Bill, in his kitbash of these 10’0’ inside height cars Clark used the ends from Intermountain’s 12 panel side boxcar to represent the Improved Dreadnaught ends. The Intermoutain parts are for

Note the top rib on the photo Doug sent of M&StL 4844 is asymmetrical. This rib is only available AFAIK on the Accurail Steel Reefers and they sell that part. I used it make an end for a DL&W car. The

That would be a nice detail to add at a crossing. Also in the photo is the new-ish Alaskan way viaduct, which is now mostly been converted to gravel. Regards, Mike Aufderheide

Colin, MSTL boxcar 5038 was built in 1952, part of 4000-5398, a 700 order built by General American. These were better known as the green boxcars., the only green painted cars owned by the MSTL. Clark

They have done that before. MDC 50 ft SS car comes to mind. Brian J. Carlson

Tony Isn't someone doing a high quality plastic "SP lines" B-50-15? It may -seem- stupid but if Walthers can skim sales from a better (and pricier) product, they'll count it as a

Exactly...............and they'll sell zillions of them to less learned fans of the SP. Just think..........Athearn B&O PA's! Roger Huber Deer Creek Locomotive Works

The trouble with pretending they are USRA cars, when they aren't at all, is shown by the SP car numbers listed for the single-sheathed cars. The numbers are in fact SP's USRA box car numbers -- but

Yes, sorry. - Al Sent from Mail for Windows 10