Gatwood, Elden wrote: Elden, that is snow on the roofs. Look more closely. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-653

Robert Simpson wrote: Robert, of course, is quoting (correctly) post-1970 rules. In the period of this list, separate empty placards were used for many commodities. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Pre

Greg Martin wrote: Do we know that all the Floquil and Polly S COLORS are going away, or that the Floquil BRAND is going away? Model Master already carries some paints with railroad names, and maybe t

Gatwood, Elden wrote: Hope some of them were gondolas. Distortion COULD be your friend! Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com

Armand Premo wrote: Richard Hendrickson may chime in here, as he believes, on considerable photographic evidence, that it is difficult to over-weather steam era freight cars. But I would disagree with

Signature Press is proud to announce publication of a new book about Southern Pacific Standard-Design depots, by Henry Bender. This 320-page book provides photographs of a great many depots, not only

Jim Betz wrote: Gee, Jim, I've done exactly that on several hundred freight cars, including a lot of Otis McGee's fleet. Give me a call and you can come over for a demo. <g> Tony Thompson Editor, Sign

Bruce Smith wrote: Nah. That's one of Armand's "grievous errors," isn't it? <g> Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 54

In response to past questions, I've posted a short discussion of ice service refrigerator cars on my blog. If you're interested, it is at: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2013/06/ice-service-refrige

Bill Welch wrote: The photo on page 32 of Gene Green's reefer color guide shows an FGE ice car that is all BCR. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Ken Roth wrote: That it happened occasionally does not, in my view, "justify" loading SFRD cars more than quite rarely. Conductor book data I have seen COULD justify some FGE cars being loaded, even a

Ken Roth wrote: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/02/modeling-freight-traffic-coast-line.html Tony Thompson

Steve Sandifer wrote: Steve, for obvious reasons, the produce cars scattered outward from their origins, and streams of them joined and mixed with other streams. As you went farther and farther east,

This topic has come up before. I wanted to add to the information we've already developed. A number of on-line sellers, such as Fastenal, Bolt Depot, Microfasteners, Grainger and others, all sell the

Brian Ehni (A former LHS owner) wrote: Brian, I thought about this point, and perhaps I should have pointed out that packaging and distributing small numbers of screws, as Walthers does and which your

Bob Chaparro wrote: A glance at the PFE book shows it's at Bohn ventilator. These were last used on PFE production cars in 1913, Class R-30-6, except for the R-50-1 cars built in 1927. Tony Thompson E

I've just added a new post to my blog, about waybill preparation. It's the recollections of someone who DID this job, and it clarifies the process in a way no other source could do. If you're interest

Charlie Duckworth wrote: Thanks, Charlie, but of course the excellent summary is from Harry Dolan, not me. I have not yet used LCL waybills, but do have some "Stop This Car" waybills, which as I under

Charlie Duckworth wrote: Yes, certainly at least some LCL was billed as you describe: a cover bill, agent to agent, and then all the waybills for the individual shipments stapled behind it. I am amaze

Randy Hammill wrote: These FOBX cars remaining in service for some time. The photo is also at CSRM in print form, which I used in the PFE book (page 151) and commented on the larger issue of why overh