While at the Lisle RPM last month, I picked up one of the new Sunshine kits of a Cotton Belt auto car. In the instructions, it says, during WWII, the left doors were sealed and stenciled with "THIS DO

They are listed on the Speedwitch website as of right now. Aaron

How soon would would the PM auto cars have gotten C&O paint after the 1947 purchase of the company? http://www.speedwitch.com/Models/k111.htm Has anyone built the kit yet? I saw one lettered for the P

Thanks for all of the responses. I'm riding the Empire Builder, and it comes in late on Thursday afternoon, so I did not sign up for the Friends of the Freight car dinner. Looking forward to seeing yo

Gents, is there going to be any formal, or informal, gathering of Steam Era Freight Car members next week in Lisle, Il? Maybe a special handshake or color to wear, or not to wear, while I am there to

The steel NP box car, with a 60' Monad and "Mainstreet" slogan, would have been re-painted starting about 1951. Aaron

In "Essential Freight Cars #20, March, 2005 RMC, Ted Culotta uses a Sunshine kit to model a vinegar car. It is one of the kit #'s 60.1-60.3. http://www.sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun60.pdf Aaron

Ben Hom had made up a nice side by side comparison sheet of the two cars a few years back. http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/YCwWTuAZVvWdl22kxZo5pTTBoul92QDpTm7rkI9JHSnBbjT776QSwCICqI7mmT_Q313HKA0S7aWG2hk4

Just checked my information on NP heralds and slogans, and what I have is this regarding dates. First use of "Mainstreet" slogan; Brainerd built cars 25000-25999 in October of 1947. 4/4 Ends, SQ panel

From information that I have gathered, and going from memory because I am at work..... The small, 36' Monad was used starting with the arrival of the first all steel box cars in 1940. The "Mainstreet"

I was thinking of tank cars used for the purpose of transporting fuel and oil for the war effort. Aaron

What would have been the dominant tank car types during the Korean War? I have searched the archives, but have not really found anything regarding this. Aaron Gjermundson

So far, there are as many pictures of this new car, as there are clear pictures of Bigfoot. Aaron

Upon further Investigation, the NP Hart cars are different. There is one fewer side panels. One survives in WA. The NP equipped a rather large number of these with rollers, and used them in long consi

The NP had some in the series 86200-86949. In my 1953 RER, 426 are still listed. I do not have pictures of one..........yet. Some were rebuilt into all steel cinder cars. Aaron

I have found one. Thank you to all who offered me theirs. Aaron

I have been trying to locate an HO Atlas 1932 AAR box car, version 1, undecorated, for a kit bashing project. I cannot, for the life of me find one. Were they not released yet? If they were, I missed

I have a new in the box, Con-cor, coach that came in a mBM62 Baggage/coach set. I only needed the mBM62 car and so the coach is up for trade. It is undecorated Tuscan and never opened. I would trade f

Bleach blackens brass/copper/silver in this way too. Aaron

John, As for your ladder question on a GN USRA box car, I am not sure if I have ever seen a picture of one with the grab irons. The majority of them would have had the ladders. Here is a link to some