CNW 43959 Flat with hay dryer load, Roanoke, IL 1941 http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll35/id/25221/rec/480 -- Matt Smith Bloomington, IL

To all interested, When pictured by H.A. Gerritsen in ca. 1988, NIPX 8 was a 'toxic waste' car serving as such on the NIPCO property, Michigan City, Indiana. Where the other two cars went to after

Not at all, I'm suggesting maybe you don't know as much of what happened as you think you do. Tony

So Tony, you're accusing me of making it up? Brian Leppert

So you're stating that Richard made it up? Of all his character traits, that is about the last thing I would imagine. He sometimes dramatized events, but I can't recall any imaginary ones. Tony

Because Bill wasn't brushing off offers because he never got any. Brian Leppert

Brian Leppert wrote: Not sure I see where your account, Brian, differs from what Richard wrote. If Gould was brushing off offers of assistance, why would you have heard about it? Tony

Hi Bruce--Not Fred but the reweigh date looks like 7 57. -- Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL

I worked for Bill Gould for about 8 years. During those years Bill's business had three people: Bill, his wife Geri and me. Business activities included lots of industrial model making, making some

I purchased one of these two dome Overland cars and wrote Richard Hendrickson about it. His reply was: "Steve, the genesis of this Overland model is that when Arndt Gerritsen was doing much of

Nice model. :-) Folks discussed those Overland cars years ago on STMFC and elsewhere. The conclusion has always been that Marsh just "made up" those two particular

Here's my Overland tank car. Friend Jerry Spoelma painted and weathered it. I had asked for an appearance of having carried something awful and nasty. Couldn't find those NITX reporting marks in

Fred, What do you read the reweigh date as? Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."

I'd have to agree with you Tony based on my experience in working with Dick Truesdale on the original B&M version of the So. Pac. 2-8-4's, with Mort Mann on the B&M Class K-8 2-8-0's, and with Nick

Hendrik Arnt Gerritsen . . . first met him in the early 1980's at the third-ever Ann Arbor Technical and Historical Society annual meeting and developed a long and close friendship. He had three car

Fred, I can't read the lettering on the domes, but I think it probably gives the gallon capacity of the tank and (separately) the dome in 2 lines of text. Todd Sullivan

I now have a better picture of the OMI NIPX 8 tankcar. Maybe one of the tank car experts could advise about what could be stecilled on the domes? The rest of the lettering is fairly

Ralph; I know next to nothing about the prototype other than from what I saw from the other side of a hurricane fence. It was on an industrial property siding. Greg and I both saw it at different

Tim O'Connor wrote: Good point, Tim. Some of us have not forgotten the "EXPERT" who advised LifeLike that the SP GP9s were never painted Black Widow, only Scarlet and Gray. Tony Thompson tony@...

Tony There's also plenty of good examples of BAD information being provided to vendors! I think there is MORE good information that is available now than in the