I posted your question to the CPSIG group, and a respondent advises that the CDS dry transfer catalog says "1954". That's about the same time TH&B parent CPR went to the "stepped" lettering on its box

Hear, hear!!! This would make kitbashing a PS-5 (that was the gon, IIRC) from the P2K car, and we can finally have a correct Rutland gon model. Or with die cutting apparently so cheap these days, perh

The East Broad Top? Actually, EBT retrucked inbound "real" freight cars bound for destinations on the narrow gauge. EBT hoppers never left the railroad in regular service. Walt Lankenau

weekend -- it's a stunning little model. As one who knows a little something about tooling, molding, assembly, etc . . . I have to say I WAS impressed . . . The choice of prototype was a little odd si

Ah, now THAT's interesting. . . I plan to model the CPR Vermont lines in the 1949-54 era. There was an Armour plant on the B&M in Woodsville, NH, and CPR southbounds often had an Armour reefer on the

(Armour) on ebay. The PCX cars are too new for me I have seen pix of similar Armour steel cars with ARLX, I think, reporting marks, numbered in the 1-999 (?) series. (It's been a while and I don't hav

Right. Paper is forever! (Almost.) Walt Lankenau

IIRC, the Central Valley Northern Pacific stock car model has a lumber door in the "A" end. Walt Lankenau

That's probably because the url was split into three lines; cut and paste everything from "www" through "jpg". It worked for me. Walt Lankenau

I have some nicely detailed rigid frame 5-ft wb archbars that I believe came off an old AHM car. Something similar is available from IHC. They're well detailed and cheap! Walt Lankenau

If a desktop scanner is used, there is usually no need to remove the slide from the mount, unless possibly the subject is cropped so tightly that the mount covers part of it. However, if a drum scanne

I don't think these date from the steam era, but Sandersville, Southern, and Seaboard Coast Line had roof-hatch boxcars for kaolin service. In the steam era, I think the D&H converted some USRA single

Judging by the responses to your question so far, the answer is "no." Might be time to buy a few sets, do some experimentation, and let us know your findings. Walt Lankenau

The caption accompanying the locomotive photo says 1941, at Millburn, NJ. Anybody care to speculate on the milk car colors? I wasn't aware that they used outlined lettering. Walt Lankenau

On the Claremont & Concord in New Hampshire, a former electric railway, due to tight curvature a 50-foot boxcar could not be placed in the Coy Paper Co. spur unless the knuckles were removed from the

That would probably represent, for example, CN, AC, BCE, PGE and other "foreign" cars on, say, CPR. In other words, cars from Canadian roads other than the home road in question. Interesting stats! Wa

Not to mention the corrosion of bridges! Walt Lankenau

the Central The "Maine Central" traffic could have been Nova Scotia coal going to Maine paper mills. Now, I wonder if it was an all-rail routing (CN Nova Scotia to CP St. John to MEC Mattawamkeag) or

Recalling a thread about what cars could be seen on which railroad (specifically N&W hoppers on Sherman Hill, IIRC), there's a diesel era (sorry) shot posted today on Trainorders showing an N&W twin f

Geez, I was afraid this would happen... So, anybody heard any news on the New England Rail Service Fowler boxcar kit? I'm looking forward to it, since the Proto 1000 model was a little disappointing.