Victor Baird (fwj@...) writes: If Ohio was not the first it was certainly one of the first to ban the 4 whell caboose. It happened in the teens and forced the Pennsy's hand in rebuilding it's

Ian, Union Pacific was a major buyer of these cars and they were in all kinds of service, lumber and TOFC is the easiest to spot. The Railroads I know of that had the "webbed" steel bulkhead were D&RG

Clark, Are you trying to ID the car type? This is a P&WV PS-1 Blt 1947, no end ribs, 7-foot Superior Panel door. I am not sure of the date on your WB so I can't properly ID the paint scheme, but I bel

Clark, OOOPPPSS This was an ACF car not a PS-1 and delivered in 1948, painted FC red no black ends or roof if pre-1953. It would have an 8-foot door (YSD) and oridinally blt for coil steel and general

Tim, Your absolutely correct ... that's what I get for reading my mail from work at lunch... Tim O'Conner writes... << Greg I believe you're thinking of 1300-1399, which were PS-1 box cars. Cars 1200-

Hey Mike, Do you have a need for an old Revell CA-1. The Walthers will finally put mine to death... Greg Martin

Hey Yuze Gize, It is a sad day for all of us in the hobby... I picked up this message on the PRR-Talk list from Dan Cupper and felt it was worth sharing. I never met Ted Rose but last October in Naper

Gize, If the list at the Hagley is indeed the same this from the Altoona Public Library, the it was a partial list created by Bob Reid during the seventies. Although extensive, Bob always made it clea

Richard, Bruce and all, Interesting reading and Richard is a good source for this subject! I just wanted to comment that today on the way home from the Oregon Coast I was able to get a shot of a one o

In a message Ben Hom (b.hom@...) writes: Ben and all, Good color records I have seen show the use of NP, CNW, and CB&Q as well as B&O Mather Stock cars often in use on Pennsy stock moveme

Hey Yuze Gize, I just bought 7, new in the box, Branchline 50-foot box cars at lunch today (via a friend and his cell phone)at Longs Drugs for the low down dirty price of $3.97 per car. It's not on th

Well Know long time author and mentor to me, Mont Switzer wrote: << WATCH THE MONON VERSION OF THE 50 FT. SINGLE DOOR BY BRANCHLINE. CORRECT LETTERING, BUT IN THE WRONG PLACE. MONT >> Mont, When I get

Hey Yuze Gize, I can confirm that even though Walthers did not show the R50B in Chicago over the weekend at the hobby Show it was there. I hear, and can not confirm, but it will be "even better"as it

In a message dated 9/9/02 8:24:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time, westernmd@... writes: Ned Writes... << Greg Martin suggested using his highlighting technique to emphasize the edge of the foil. A sim

Ben Hom writes... << The Class F39 and F39A cars are the prototype for the Walthers 75 ft TOFC flat.>> On my website Al Stump has posted some excelleant "walk-around" phots of an F-39 (unkonwn subclas

Kert you wrote... Kert, This car was the second largest class on the Pennsy for many years and since you have decided to use the Tichy kit you might want to refer to Mont Switzer's article in Mainline

Hey Yuze Gize, Stan will be at Naperville as well as Cocoa Beach. He is working with Richard Hendrickson to do a Kitbash clinic on Friday morning and I know he will have his parts for sale as well. I

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Shawn, My question to you is, what is this information for, modeling? Are you writing and article? What? The Auto Industry was and has been a very demanding business for the Railroads. Timing is and w