Roger,   That car is at the Monon Connection museum about a mile north of town on 421.  The museum is one of the best I've seen for memoribilia, and they have a restaurant with good pie too.

Thank you Bruce! I must have been dozing during that exchange....not unusual for me! Is there an accurate drawing of these cars? I may have an express car to change. Mike Aufderheide Bruce Smith <smit

Schuyler, The December 2001 Model Railroader has drawings of the cars as built. Because it has the double systems of a passenger car (gasp!) the layout is complicated. I colorized the diagram for a ki

Charlie, There were at least 4 Monon boxcars allocated and assigned to this service. The only additional lettering for these cars was the text "FRIENDSHIP TRAIN" added in gothic above the "MONON" near

Dean, Thanks for the site. Many interesting photos. I found the rest of this car here: http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/frisco/friscoline/images/photos/p01760.jpg It is an "impact de

This is the first photo of one of these cars (8000 series) I've seen in revenue service. Believe me I've been looking. According to the Monon Car Dept. records at the Monon Historical Society these ca

All: Another thing to keep in mind is that 'cement hoppers' carried more than cement. I have 1948 conductor's logs showing sand, soda ash and lime all being carried in 1958 cu ft. LOs. Having said tha

Earl, A good site for old truck photos is here: http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/trucks.htm Scroll down and click on each maker's emblem to see the photos. An occasional steam era freight car appears

All, Here is a Jack Delano photo showing this paint: http://www.shorpy.com/node/704?size=_original Regards, Mike Aufderheide

Brian and all, A visit to the Ribsides website today shows that they are coming out soon with what looks to be the same car as Intermountain. See: http://ribsidecars.com/ribsidecars_002.htm When it ra

Don, Thanks for the links, great movie! I found a clue to the date: about two minutes in there is a close up of SP 64182 with a reweigh of 11-42. Mike Aufderheide preserved all sorts of early to mid f

All, I'm getting ready to build the Sunshine MoP mini-kit which calls for an Intermountain Modified AAR (10'-6") boxcar. Can I use a Branchline kit (which I have on hand) in lieu of the Intermountain

<Elden.J.Gatwood@...> wrote: until >the legal end of interchange life, they were certainly designed well. >I fact, Conrail tried to get an exception to this rule, based on the >fact that none of them

All: See the Ry-Ops industry database at: http://www.opsig.org/industrydb/ It lists two in Chicago: General Mills Co Rialto Elevator, Chicago IL, BRC, Ship:Cereal, flour, grain elevator Gold Medal Foo

Dave, Another good place for this info in a general sense is Al Westerfield's site: http://westerfield.biz/ Mike Aufderheide rebuilt DS In fact

Elden, This caught my eye because I had just seen Mont Switzer's model of this car at the RPM meet in Mishawaka a few week's before. It is an interesting model with two Des Plaines Hobbies Viking roof

Does anyone know what time the vending room opens on Saturday? Thanx, Mike Aufderheide --- STMFC@... <westerfield@...> wrote: for vendor sales we will be selling from our room all

william darnaby <WDarnaby@...> wrote: Sooo...that old saw about a model railroad having 50% of its cars being home road is true!? And you told me I didn't need to paint anymore home road

Thanks Bill! The photo I have shows no locks on the side, but it does look like its been recently shopped. The car has fresh paint and patch panels on the lower part of 5 out of 9 panels. Regards, Mik

Hello All: At the Lake Region RPM a few weeks I got a photo from Bob's of LN 49502, a steel gon with 8 rib, 9 panels, IL 40'-6" and 1765 cu ft capy. Reweighed 5-56. The reason this car caught my eye i