I friend - Leo Landry - figured out to make a number of cuts into the cars to shorten them to 40 feet. His looked fine to me but I don't know if there was an exact prototype to match. But it may be wo

They all had that interesting stencil Tony... Another thing - the cars built in January 1952 (instead of December 1951) had a change in the builder's stencil! :-)

Garth 16F-5 yes I don't know what it means - but the car has a 16 foot wide door opening - could it handle 5 autos inside?

Here is a better view of the white stripe on an SP XMR car repainted in 1958. This car also has the 'combination' roof for stowage of the interior automobile rack.

http://www.accurail.com/accurail/ART/8500/8500.jpg

The straight bottom edges seen on one major rib of SRE ends existed on MANY freight cars of the postwar era but the only HO scale model in mass production is Accurail's version as far as I know. We ha

Bill, try to be of good cheer and think positively. I plan to be there again, and I'm sure many of us feel that way! Unfortunately it looks like this will continue until 2022, since the vaccines reall

I think that was a resin vendor who offered a 70 ton AAR flat car model that was far easier to build than the SUNSHINE kit but then Intermountain introduced a very good plastic RTR model...

I am just too sad right now. I've lost a friend I knew for almost 30 years. Bill had many passions and railroads and fantastically good modeling were just two of them. :'(

I think WHITE WALL tires were wrapped - Nobody would buy a blemished white wall, except at a deep discount.

NO GARTH IT DOES NOT. I was commenting on a specific photograph of specific cars in a specific place. I doubt very much that those single sheathed cars, or the CG door-and-a-half car, were involved in

as for the assortment of road names, MP SP CG were all in nearby states not far from home. the double doors could be useful for stick lumber, plywood, or furniture - but not 'automobile' cars at this

Probably series 90000 to 99999 - yes, UTLX really did have THOUSANDS of these cars! But of course they were on hundreds of different leases.

I split box car doors by putting them on a hard flat surface, lining up a single edge razor blade where I want to make the vertical cut, and then using pressure first and then hammering with a steel w

Beautiful model - and nicely manicured ballast too! :-)

Bruce I was thinking it might be "beaded" siding - it didn't look like a vee to mee.

I think the Northern gives it away. ;-) What is that wood pattern on the car sides called? It doesn't look like board by board siding. Novelty siding maybe?

Ahem. These so-called "bans" were not outright bans -- Cars with "outlawed" equipment were simply not approved for UNRESTRICTED INTERCHANGE. Railroads could voluntarily continue to use such equipment