Thanks for the information, Tim. Guess I did mean Red Caboose, rather than IM. Walt Lankenau

Thank you, Richard. Of course, I'd haved to choose something exotic. In the photo I've seen, it's coupled to a welded SAL B-10 box which is taller than the UP car, so I'd guess the IH to be a bit less

The photo I've seen is by Dwight Smith. It appears on page 112 of "New England Diesels" by Dave Albert and George Melvin, and on page 63 of Volume VI of Nimke's Connecticut River Railroads series. The

And how many are home road cars? Um, zero? Walt Lankenau

USRA S/S, no? With newer trucks and AB brakes. Walt Lankenau

I can't ever remember hearing of or seeing a D&H offset triple, much less a prototype photo of anything that looked like this. Have you tried emailing Bowser about the cars? Walt Lankenau

Tim, I can't exactly picture what this "tool" would look like, but I understand your goal. Couldn't something be cobbled up from relatively thick (.060, maybe?) styrene? Walt Lankenau

Didn't have any luck finding this on the Atlas site. A link would be helpful. Thanks! Walt Lankenau

At the bottom of this page: http://www.imrcmodels.com/ho/hoboxcars.htm IM shows assembled Tichy USRA SS boxcars. Walt Lankenau

FYI, the Ann Arbor Railroad Technical & Historical Association 2010 calendar features several items of interest to this list. First, a lettering diagram for a 40-foot gon (the date is not clearly visi

Yes, I believe it's the former Yankee Clipper kit.

I have a hunk o' coke I picked up along the tracks years ago, and it's quite porous and a medium gray color, like charcoal, I'd say. The piece is about four inches by six inches by three inches or so.

On the ex-traction line Claremont & Concord in New Hampshire, in order to deliver a 50-foot car to the Coy Paper Co. in West Claremont, the crew had to remove the knuckles from the locomotive (GE 44-t

Here's a link the the "vintage" page: http://www.con-sys.com/product_vintage1.htm Kits include N&W and VGN battleship gons, a Halliburton drilling mud tank car (steam era???), an NYC containerized exp

Which announcement was that? Rapido is doing the CN Pte. St. Charles caboose (for Canadian Model Trains, IIRC), which is not steam era, the MLW LRC (which is neither steam nor steam era), and the Pull

I feel your pain, John, but I also infer that this was a new medium for you? An hour spent experimenting with the stuff on scrap styrene and a few junk car or locomotive shells would have been a wise

The link doesn't work because the item number was truncated. copy and paste the above item number (140474810416) at the end of the url and it will work. walt lankenau

Excellent! We've heard rumblings about an injection molded wagontop on this list for a while, now. Question: the announcement shows two of the earlier paint schemes with a brownish body color, and the

I don't recall the specifics, but there was an auto or truck assembly plant on the Erie's Newark Branch that shipped crated vehicles loaded into these gons to the Hudson River piers at Weehawken, NJ.

Al, could John be asking about one of your pickle cars? Walt Lankenau I was visiting a layout last week and there was a excellent model of Heinz 204 which he identified as being built from a Westerfie