Another fine effort, Dick! I’m guessing you’ll be bringing it to the RPM meet next month. I’m looking forward to seeing it. Dan Mitchell ==========

Thank you everyone for your responses and answers. Have a blessed day. Bill Michael Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Dick That’s a stunning build, paint job and weathering. Paul Doggett England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

What a beauty! -- Michael Gross Pasadena, CA

Thanks for sharing your work, Dick. The car looks great. Will you display this at RPM Chicagoland? I, too, have heard this might be a HO scale resin kit offering. Let's cross our fingers! Eric

A beautiful model! Johannes Modeling the early post-war years up to about 1953

My feelings echo Fenton's, Dick. Had a wood model of one of these once in O scale when I used to operate on a friend's O scale pike every Friday night. Eventually gave it to him and later wished I had

Nice work Dick Dan Stainton

Very well done and it looks like it was operating behind steam! The HO resin kit is rumbling it’s way to availability was the last word a year ago. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Well done, Love the finish on this car. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Here's a photo of my most recent freight car project, an O-scale D&RGW double-sheathed automobile car. I built it from a Rails Unlimited resin body, painted it with Polly Scale acrylics, and lettered

Along with that, alloys and various improvements allowed for less labor intensive means of creating a supporting structure that was "smaller", stronger, & better use of resources and more

And still in use long after the cut-off date of this discussion group. TTX 89' flatcars have fishbelly underframes. The reason we don't see any on house cars built after 1930 or so is designers

No ban that I’m aware of for that center sill design. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

What I call a fish belly underframe is the large beam or beams that are visible from the side of a boxcar that have a visible angle. My question is when were these underframes banned from interchange

seems obvious enough - there is no "WAYBILL" because the car is empty, but the car does have a destination. I suppose this would also prevent the car from being "hijacked" down

Thanks Gary. I have been trying to find the flyer that Bill put out covering the orange and yellow refer colors. Bill did a super job on all os his imported freight cars. This resulted on my car

Ben Hom writes: For starters, there's Ed Hawkins' spreadsheets posted on the old Ted Cullotta Steam Era Freight Cars website: http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/prototype/frtcars/postwaraarmain.html

When W&R imported their Northern Pacific wood reefers, they came in wither orange or yellow. Bill McKeown obtained side hardware for two reefers, and carefully sanded through the layers and here are

My last contribution to this thread: - If the base color of the roof was black, why would overspray on the runboard be light gray (compared to the black of the ends)? - Or is it the anti-slip