Bruce, Tim, TANKS a lot!! This is a great find for this WWII ATSF modeler. John McCall, author of Early Diesel Daze, identifies photo 31 as the Winslow Roundhouse. This makes a lot of sense as the San

Don, When are you representing that the Santa Fe car was last repainted? 1945 or before you want a brown based color, after, a more reddish tinge. TCP019 is a good match for Santa Fe through the end o

Bill, I will put finding a good set of drawings on my list for stuff to find at NARA College Park. It's been a long time since I looked at any ship plans, but the info should be there. A little more d

Bill, If it is the 5 inch turret load displayed at CCB 2015, it is for a 5" 54 caliber turret used on the Forrest Sherman and Charles F. Adams destroyers from the mid 50s. They may have been used on o

On the way out the door to the ATSFHR&MS convention, but Bob told me to contact him a couple weeks in advance of any show that I was attending if there was something that I was particularly interested

Tim, ModelTrainStuff has photos of at least several of those Bowser models. I cann't answer to the prototype. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Was

Ron, Without photo evidence to confirm, the thousands of cars extant with the '59 change to the S&T Large Circle Cross coupled with the Santa Fe continuing to repaint these cars past the end of time l

Ron, Missed the second half of your question, Yes, Intermountain has offered several variations of the S&T slogan cars. I just haven't paid too much attention as they post date my 44-45 modelling era.

And over 2000 of those nearly 5000 cars survived to the 70s past the end of this list, but would surely had more than a few of them repainted in the Large Circle Cross introduced in 1959. John Barry A

Micheal, The IM roof is basically correct, but not as well executed as the Red Caboose version. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20

Ron, By circle-cross do you mean the plain pre-map scheme with the 3 foot herald or the post S&T large circle cross? Lots of the cars of the cars survived past 59 to wear the large cross. Since the Bx

Michael, They are close and can easily be made closer with some minor mods to ladders, reorienting the reservoir, and changing trucks for certain road numbers. It is probably closest to the as built B

Well that explains why I can't find my reference. I know I saw it, but the LCL explanation makes more sense as it would be difficult to differentiate loads and empties that could go boom with the X on

Bob, If I am recalling correctly, that X on the door denoted explosives, at least during WWII. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 200

And those county options were the source of many establishments such as Friendship House Lounge on the Walton County Line, now repaced by Captain Dave's on the Gulf. https://www.google.com/maps/@...

Deve, Yes they did and documentation of some of those shipments still exists in the archives. I saw reference to one such shipment last week. John John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast F

Jim, Do you really want the boxes I searched? I'd think you'd rather have the ones that bore fruit. Although there are lots of varieties of fruit in that forest of information. I will post a proper ci

I've written a Blog post about the information I have discovered in the Archives at Modeling the ATSF Valley Division Third & Oakland Districts + the Alameda Belt: A Visit to the National Archives Mod

Ken, Then you probably want to use the redder TCP-251 post 45 mineral brown and ATSF reporting marks. If you are modelling a long un-repainted caboose with A.T.S.F or rarer A.T.&S.F. (for your era) re

Ken, What time frame? Santa Fe's colors changed somewhat post WWII. Tru Color Paint makes a color that Ed Hawkins told me is a dead match to the pre 45 ACF color chips, TCP-19 ATSF Brown. I will be us