neat<VBG>. Jon, My thoughts exactly!!!! Oh well. Thanks for the education Andy. Mike Aufderheide Modeling the Monon 1947-8 Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://t

Andy and all: Could you give me a few line synopsis of how the Bohn ventilators worked? Were they in place of standard ice hatches. Did they function as ice hatches and ventilators? Thanks, Mike Aufde

FWIW: The 1948 Monon conductors log I've been going through shows covered hoppers being used for only Lime (1 car), Cement (11 cars), and Soda Ash (1 car). This is out of 510 cars. So far nothing else

Phil, Another gray car would be the Monon 1200-1225 painted in 1948. These had Evans load restraints installed and it has been said that they were intended for service at a Louisville appliance plant.

Nice "slope sheet only" loading shown too! Just like the loading diagrams. Did the gravel in hoppers stay that way in transit or settle down into the car? I have seen a video of a set of PRR GR gons w

Dean, First, I appologize, I did not read your first e-mail clearly enough. As for the Erie, only the big herald was there as you mentioned and the website shows. As for the SOO, they have both the '5

Dean, I was at Des Plaines last week and they have the Erie car in stock with the large herald for 18 bucks. They also have one for CEI. Is this car correct? Mike Aufderheide _________________________

Group, I've put 9 brass models up on ebay on behalf of Mont Switzer from his personal collection. Many of them are Steam Era models. All of them are very nice. Go to www.ebay.com. In the window that s

Denny, Thank you for the fascinating account. I've found the aerial of the place from 1993. See: http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=10&X=1463&Y=10530&W=3&qs=%7cconcord%7cca%7

Chet and Jerry, Thank you very much for the information. Do either of you have a diagram of this car you could share. It would be interesting to look at a possible kitbash. Regards, Mike --- Chet Fren

I've really got to go there. I work about 4 blocks away! Mike --- Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...> wrote: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail

Tim, Another example of this is eastbound traffic coming north from Indianapolis and Louisville on the Monon. Rather than send these cars up the mainline to South Hammond and the connection with the E

Chet, Thanks for posting this. Very interesting. Any idea how these were routed. UP to Council Bluffs? Were these cars part of block dropped at Decatur from a train going through to the east? Regards,

Ed, In talking to ex Monon carman Bob Schultz he stated that the Monon's hottest train in 1948, #71 from S. Hammond In to Louisville never ran with any open top cars. The reason being that delays due

Looking through some books recently, a few interesting IC hoppers have stuck out. They have ribbed sides with a short flat panel above. On one car the upper panel looked to have stampings at a regular

Thanks Jim!! Mike Aufderheide <jimandlisa97225@v...> wrote: Column E

<Producing a book and some decals and etc. has kept him <busy. Jim, I should be so productive in my spare time!!! Can you post it to the STMFC files section? Then everyone can get it. 'tis the season

Hi, Does anyone have a Sunshine Fall 2004 Kit Update List they could scan and post? (Assuming he produced such a thing as they have before)Or if someone could snail mail me a copy I'd be happy to scan

Ian, Thank you for the information. That is a lot of "light" to shed. Regards, Mike __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. Learn more. htt

Hello Group, The discussion of the A-50's reminded me of a question I've been meaning to ask. I've built a Westerfield A-50-4 which I had intended to letter for GTW. The excellent data sheet pointed o