Photo: Tank Cars At Refinery This is link to a 1920 photo from the collection of the University of

Photo: CTH&SE Gondola With Load This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fv0w55 Photo taken in 1926. The gondola belongs

Photo: Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway Tank Car & Boxcar This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: Tank

Photo: Early 1900s Frisco Boxcar This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6hm5hw4 The photo was taken in 1907. Bob

Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66138c3 Does anyone have an educated guess (as

Photo: PFE/WP Reefer This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tj05h8 Visible among the reefers is PFE 50092, one of the

Frank Ellington's book Stock Cars of the Santa Fe Railway, has a drawing of class Sk-O on page 77 and a cross-section drawing on page 78, there are also photos of Sk-O 68000 side and end on page 24..

If accuracy is wanted, I have 2 Intermountain HO Pacific Fruit Express reefer kits for R-40-10 steel ice bunker refrigerator cars. IM # 41702P-35 PFE Double Herald car with Union Pacific colored

Yeah! That’s the one lol Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

Clark, Here’s a prototype photo that shows definitively the exact color CN boxcars should be

Tim, The only PFE 40-ft steel reefers that I know Sunshine did were the R-40-10 and the R-40-26. The R-40-14 and R-40-20 are very similar, with the -20 being 1-1/2 inches taller. I would make an

Dick It just occurred to me that Sunshine never did an R-40-20 either, did they? I always thought it was just the ends that needed to be replaced (which Details West offered)... :-( -- *Tim

It has been months since I hosted an op session on my Alma branch layout. I hope to resume monthly op sessions in January. For those of you not familiar with my layout it is 22 1/2'x30' in HO scale

Intermountain is the "King Of Foobies". Francis A. Pehowic, Jr.

For those that care about prototype accuracy, it should be pointed out that these kits are pretty bogus. The car body is the InterMountain PFE R-40-23, so the ends, doors and underframe are not

To my eye the CN single sheath box cars seem to be a lighter (dustier?) shade of boxcar re with the ones spending more time in the east showing a light blackish tint,( probably due to dirtier

CN had a tightly-controlled standard pallette of colours, and in this case the standard colour was Red #11, which was a reddish version of brown. As the colour aged, the reddish tone faded and the car

Doug Harding wrote: "The CN historical society once sold correct color paint." http://www.cnrha.ca/node/966 These are available in Scalecoat and Scalecoat II. Scroll to page

True but I believe Clark does not like acrylic paint. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Yup They sure did I have a large supply Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com