There is a general survey of these cars by Richard Hendrickson in Model Railroad Hobbist here: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/download/mrh_issue2 Mike Aufderheide

Clark, Can you define 'hog water' for me.....the mind reels. Mike Aufderheide

These cars (unlike Branchline) have the roof cast with the sides, not as a separate piece. I have altered similarly made accurail cars by cutting repeatedly along the roof with an exacto knife even wi

Yah, that's it! Mike (I wish I build more resin models!)

Tim, ....well I guess I could use my teeth. :>] Seriously, though, the stryrene is very soft under a sharp exacto blade. 4-5 passes at the most. Mike

Eldon, Speaking of EJE, are there any of their gons that can be modeled accurately? There are several that traveled in Monon trains in 1948: #33036 nb Coal for Wabash at Lafayette Jct. IN #33590 sb Co

Tony, Thank you, forgot to /2. And yes I would like the citation. Regards, Mike Aufderheide

Thanks!

MON is a foobie.

John, If I understand the site correctly, one can send 3-D models to them and have them made! Wow! A game changer? Where's my Sketch-up! Regards, Mike Aufderheide To: STMFC@... Sent: Frida

All, FWIW, the following lists of the most numerous box/auto/vent cars not modeled in resin or plastic: (1950 ORER #s) ACL O16A, B, C 40ft rebuilt auto car. 2,500 cars, 3rd most numerous house car on

Tony, I can't speak to the NYC roofs, somone....? For the purposes of this list I have not distinguished between types of roofs, doors, ends or trucks. Yes, I admit that 13th and 14th down the list is

Tony, I agree with you, this is not a to do list, but a broader brush to see what cars are needed to convey a sense of time and place. The difficulty comes when one sees a small road with post war AAR

Steve, The 40 ft MILW gons are the Westerfield models. The 50 foot cars you see in many photos and would be a great car to have a modeled. A quick look at the 1954 ORER still shows 3200 composite 50ft

MON 3011 42’ GB Fixed ends, steel floor Steel This car (on the "Need ID to a Model" page) is modeled by Sunshine 67.38. See: http://sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun67f.pdf Thank you for posting this lis

Bill, Thank you for this link. My stash of Red Caboose spares was running low! By the by, I noticed that Kadee offers custom Alps Printing. The need for this comes up on the list occasioanally. See: h

Tim, This is hardly "much" but I do have CP 180528 with a load of rubber from Bloomington IN to Michigan City IN on 10/20/1948. It is listed as 36' steel underframe 8' IH with a 5' door. I don't know

Robert, Thank you for posting this, I love this stuff too. I can confirm that the Monon did not have any gons numbered 1283 per the 9/3/44 entry. They did later have box cars in this series, but not u

There is a good resource online: http://www.wch.com/pdf/catalog/blueflag.pdf Mike Aufderheide

Gene, Of the 22,350 box and auto cars on the Sante Fe at the time 14,450 were steel sheathed or 64.65%. If it weren't for the March photo date, I would wonder if many of the Bx-3, 11, 12, & 13s were b