Mike, I didn't dispute the color - many people think that the SOO Line painted locomotives and freight cars white too, but they were not "pure white". There are many such examples from other roads too

Like SP "lettering gray" applied to all locomotives and passenger cars until the 1980's that looked white in bright sunlight and faded to white as well. Model makers finally started applying the corre

Someone needs to cite a painting specification diagram or document. There is no other way to avoid the "take your best shot" approach. Someone mentioned "artificial aluminum" - If you've ever seen a U

This car, repainted in 1952, might have been in assigned service.

Kadee has not changed their wheels, but roll tests with the new HGC trucks show they perform vastly better than the old Kadee trucks - it's now "slippery plastic on slippery plastic" instead of "metal

Huh. The 47 foot length made me think they were USRA gondolas. The M-15 was 40 feet right?

After the ban on the Allied trucks, were these applied soon after?

Make friends with someone who can get you a deep discount :-) and buy wheels in BULK. My club for many years ordered wholesale quantities of cars and parts from vendors at wholesale prices, so club me

How about this one?

Dale There are TWO cars in the 93600 to 93649 series in the 1959 ORER. But there is no "asterisk" or other indication that this is a new entry in the ORER, so they could be earlier than 1959. By 1963

I remember Trains magazine ran BC op-ed newspaper cartoons from that era that were pretty funny.

A "pulp digester" according to my notes.

Kadee printed decals for our train club. They're ok, but I'll say that their white lettering is almost invisible on the paper and not as opaque as you may want it to be. Tim O'

GYPSUM or TRANSCO running board on Rock Island 25189? :-) Built by Pullman Standard in 1946, just three years old here. Tim O'

cdc.ca - Bill Brillinger - received my decals 3 days after I ordered them cartograf - high quality printer recommended by Ted Culotta

Tony, here is my list of Westrail kits (Athearn kitbash kits) - R-1301 NP reefer R-1201 ART reefer prewar 62000-62499 etc R-120 ART reefer 229790-24999 (?? that's what it says) R-1220 ART reefer 26000

lol - maybe in New Zealand, but cutting and welding on gondolas and flat cars is not uncommon in the USA

sublettered for WNY&P but always painted PENNSYLVANIA I like that tiny P&LE flat car in the background! any better photos of those?

I don't really care what it is, but I'd like to know what those heavy steel rods are attached to on the deck of the flat car. Didn't those flats have heavy steel floors? Are the rods bored into the de