I bought a box of miscellaneous, mostly Champ, decals at the ATSF/CB&Q joint meet a few weeks ago. After pulling out the things I am most interested in, I find that there are still quite a few left. I

Most of the Rock Island stock cars that were rebuilt from "Fowler Clone" boxcars were single deck cars. I imagine that Al will do the most common cars, but both would be nice..... Steve Hile

I think that the "theories" about car distribution really aren't intended to be applied to individual trains or, perhaps, even a given yard scene. Where they are most useful, in my opinion, is in sele

Scott is certainly right for at least 1320. The RI cars were rebuilt double sheathed cars with the heavy fishbelly underframe. Also, the RI cars retained the RH grab irons instead of a ladder. And the

Rock Island boxcars 5800 - 5899 were delivered in 1959. The first few cars came without the big orange DF2 logo, but, early on, they went back and had it added. All 100 cars had DF2 loaders. 5800-5816

That is what the RI equipment diagram says. The earliest RI cars originally equipped with DF equipment was 100 fifty foot, nine foot single door opening, PS-1's numbered 5085 - 5184 delivered in 1954.

I find myself facinated by the cover photo on Volume 2 of Ted's Prototype Railroad Modeling. You, too, can have your own 134 Megabyte copy from the Library of Congress website, if you like. http://mem

data we Sorry. These are the steps I used to get to a copy of the photo Use http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?timePeriod=1930-1949 as the link to a list of topics. Then select Depression

The Rock Island numbers actually cover three distinct body styles: 20000 - 20050 10"6" IH AAR standard boxcars built by Pressed Steel Car Co. in 1941 along with several thousand regular freight boxcar

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Paul is correct. The Youngstown doors had four panels, 4-5-5-4 ribs. These cars also had interesting trucks, Barber S-4-L, which are represented by Bethlehem Car Works (ex-Cape Line) #1213. Steve Hile

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For Sale HO Proto 2000 0-6-0 ACL #1145 Brand new in the box. Very useful in sorting Steam Era Freight Cars or as a Passenger Terminal Switcher. Please contact me off list, if interested. Steve Hile sh

For Sale HO Proto 2000 0-6-0 ACL #1145 Brand new in the box. Very useful in sorting Steam Era Freight Cars or as a Passenger Terminal Switcher. Please contact me off list, if interested. Steve Hile sh

The Frisco sawtooth car is featured as the January 2007 release on Al Westerfield's website. http://www.westerfield.biz/it020001.htm Regards, Steve Hile

I find myself with an extra copy of Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Number 2. Contents: Pullman 12-1 Sleeping Cars AC&f Type 27 Tank Cars ART's First Steel Reefers Section, Bunk and Tool Houses Modeling

For what it may be worth, are we sure that they actually had a scale of their own? I know that we were recently looking at reweigh symbols on some RI boxcars that had DF loaders installed by Evans in

On the Rock Island, it was bulk flour. In 1956, 57 and 58, they converted just over 40 forty foot boxcars (built in 1940) to carry bulk flour. This included a pair of round roof hatches near the cente

While I won't take any credit for breaking new ground, I will remind us that we CAN treat tank cars exactly the way the prototype did, that is as two separate things - a tank and an underframe. It is

I have recently completely revised the UTLX tank car decal set that I sell and have uploaded a couple of example pictures to the group's Files section in a folder called UTLX Decals. These show the de

Dwight asked, in part.... Did the Rock Island have company service tank cars? The answer to that is yes. In the steam/diesel transition era, in addition to using some tenders from retired steam locomo

I have never seen a picture that shows these cars with a RI herald. They were just plain black with RI initials and number. I know that the domes were yellow on the ones in the 70's, but would not inf