Hi Richard, I don't want to sound like I am jumping on the pile here, but I was wondering when you said "nowhere in Oregon was coal mined in commercial quantities" whether you meant to bracket that to

I thought some list members would be interested, beyond the local-interest content, in this news feature about the history of ice harvesting to supply the WFE/FGE reefer fleet on the GN. There are som

My wife is a librarian, and if she wasn't I would probably not be aware of EBSCO (poke around at ebsco.com), a firm that offers both subscription services, searchable indexes and electronic accession

Thank you, Tim. --Chris Frissell Polson, MT

Thanks, Chet and Ed. Your answers solve a number of small mysteries that had been bothering me, and confirm what I had come to conclude shortly after my posting, that this was a nonuniform series. It

Does anyone have information on the type of running board and brake step on 40ft boxcars NJI&I 4100-4270? These are steel 8-panel riveted cars of 10ft 4 1/2in internal height, 5/5 ends, and--I think--

Does anyone have contact information for Ken Harstine, proprietor of the web site www.boxcars.us ? On or off-list reply is fine. He's got a boxcar image posted at his web site that I'd like to make a

JP3: Thanks, I have the NP station symbols, but at delivery to the NP these leaser cars were marked with the codes of the east coast shops where they were refurbished, rather than any NP station. (Thi

Does anyone have contact information for Howard Ameling? There's a photo of his I'd like to seek permission to publish in the NPRHA journal, Mainstreeter, if possible. Reply on or off-list. Thank you.

Thanks, Mark, that sounds right. I had the source showing JN for the IC Johnston Yard too but that in this case that didn't make much sense. Chris Frissell

I'm going to push the envelope on the time frame of the list by just a hair, and am begging the moderator's tolerance as this does concern the disposition of a group of venerable steam era freight car

Clark: Briefly, you split the roof down the middle and cut out the midsection and rejoin the rest--the splice is hidden by the running board. You trim the ends of the crossbears, crossties and bolster

Tim's formula looks really good. Or if you prefer an acrylic paint, try Modelflex Light Tuscan Oxide Red 3:1 with Modelflex Rust, then mix in a couple drops of white until you can just see it start to

Steve: Actually the "new" color of the NP stock cars was the NP's standard mineral red, which is a shade of boxcar red that runs heavily to rusty red-orange. On some cars this color shifted toward Tus

Brian: You have a good point there, and I'll temper my report on this accordingly. Sounds like maybe Rich knows of a Pennsy AFE or lease agreement, but I haven't seen it. I also don't have the DT&I di

Tim and Brian: When I referred to the DTI's 40-ft X31c double door round roof boxcars as "clones" on another list, I was corrected by Rich Orr, who said it thusly:

Thanks, Walt. Chris Frissell Polson, MT

Thank you Dennis, very helpful. Within hours of posting that this might be a "late example," I remembered two other boxcar models I have worked on, a PRR X46 boxcar built in the 1950s and an FGE RBL b

Steve: Thanks! That is a very interesting CN car, and yes, it does look like the same kind of side panel seam and rivet pattern. Note I called them "lap seams" in my initial post, but I caution I don'

Jerry and Charlie: I could have done everything on this boxcar with Archer Surface Details Assorted Rivets set AR88001 (the most versatile set for HO scale and definitely the one to start with I think