Ben and Dave, At least two ATSF way cars ended their days on the Central California Traction Co. as CCT 24-25. Originally repainted all-silver in the mid-1960s, later a black stripe along the windows

Tim, Thanks for digging this list out. If it is being edited in any way, let me note the ends of the 40' steel reefer don't match the photos in Tony's PFE book. The Athearn car has 4/3 ends. The R-40-

Lester, Nice model. Where did their cars go when WIF was driven out of business by the Cuban Revolution? Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Lester, Nice model. Where did their cars go when WIF was driven out of business by the Cuban Revolution? Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Bill, Supposedly, but I understand it is so bad that I didn't mention same. I seem to remember the roof panels are backwards. Some features on most Athearn cars are prototype, and could be used for sl

Jim, Some but not many. The 40' flatcar (a hold-over from the metal kits, by the way) only has a Rutland Prototype. Their 40' tank car is similar to SP, WP and UP 12K tanks, but has a lot of problems

Tony, Thanks for the tip, but I don't have an Athearn 10K tank. I have 8Ks and a 12.5K. The Mantua is a 10K though. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Friends, I have several of these Athearn/Globe cars I've scarfed up at train shows--an 8K twin dome, two 8K single domes, and a 12.5K with a single full-height dome (like the later Athearn plastic sin

Fred, The 1937 and 1945 boxcars were built by Mt. Vernon. The 1947 cars were Pullman-Standard. So as I have said before, the WP was anything but consistent. The builders' photo might have been a one-o

Fred, Thank you for your enlightening post. I must concede that you "have the goods" vis-a-vis at least for some of these early cars. I'm going to print out your message and keep in my files for futur

Ed, From my observation, the WP was very parsimonious about repainting older rolling stock, and some boxcars went right into MW service in the 1970s with their original white lettering. Remember, the

Ben and friends Great nostalgia. Besides the Ulrich gondolas, the dump truck is one of theirs, and these are like Gold when you can find them. The little people are Weston Mini Figures, which were con

Friends, Thank you all for your input to my Western Pacific HO Car List. Thanks to the help so many of you offered, version 5 is now complete with nearly all the changes suggested. I will post it to t

Ron, You need a copy of my WP list. The one attached is the final version for now, with quite a few changes from the one I sent last week. Yours Aye, Garth

Ron, Are you talking about the WP boxcar? I'm not sure a good version has ever been offered lettered WP by anyone (lots of Athearns, but they had the wrong square corners). The most correct model is I

John and Friends, I wonder if the two cars to the left of the locomotives in this view are Western Union. They appear to be converted passenger or head end cars. This is Roper Yard on the D&RGW, circa

Friends, Very interesting indeed. It is a Mt. Vernon 40', 10'6" IH AAR boxcar with 6' doors, part of series 20201-20550 built in 1945. It would have been painted FCR with "white" lettering (called "al

Fred, Thanks for the reminders. I will incorporate most into the final version. I am not too concerned about some problems you cite with the PK2000 gondolas. They are reasonably close for most modeler

Friends, Many years ago I compiled a list of HO freight car and caboose models suitable for the Western Pacific, Sacramento Northern and Tidewater Southern up to 1958. I long ago lost that list, but m

Claus, The background information says this is from the Budd Collection and the location is Hunting Park, which is near Philadelphia and was where Budd had a major manufacturing facility. We may concl