Ray: A wonderful offer and I will take a pair of cars. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

The flat car appears around 4 min n 30 seconds into the clip and again near the 5 minute mark: https://www.johnpmedia.com/dvds/the-pennsy-off-the-beaten-track Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Sunshine mentioned both red and black were used on the rebuilds by the Frisco over time in its over view of the prototype. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

I ordered both types this morning, one is with a brake regulator and without. The pictures of the installed system is impressive: https://www.shapeways.com/product/5EV8FQFS7/ho-ab-brake-system-kit?opt

Bill, nothing beats a truss rod stock car! It really looks good, even without paint. I acquired a couple of these kits to modify for use as Great Northern stock cars until Speedwitch released their fi

Thank you very much for posting and to all the craftsmen that created it. Gary Laakso

Wonderful model Bill! What color paint did you use; it is a really fine color? Gary Laakso

Again from Moody’s Steam Railroads 1946, principal commodities: Wheat: 53,132 carloadings originating on NP and 2,735 carloadings received from connections Apples, fresh: 8,126 and 646 received Potato

When I served in the SP Law Dept, I had access to the Moody’s Manuals in the Finance Department and this is the data from one of the Manuals. There is a table on tonnage but this is from the carloadin

Lester, I built 3 of the first version of these kits as Great Northern cars in January, 1988. The corner supports were separate castings and they were a pain to file down to size. They have rolled man

Before the rivet police confiscate the picture, the corner sill step is missing on the end facing the camera. Gary “I have flat cars with missing sill steps too” Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

A picture of one of the BAR reefers in the scheme Bill referenced is on page 159 of our own Roger Hinman’s book Merchants Despatch. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Bill: Wonderful job as always but applying rust to your tools (see the ladder picture) is a new way to do things and no wonder the ladders will be so realistic! The extra work on the diagonal braces w

Does anyone know when the book will be released? http://www.ronsbooks.com/cgi-bin/quikstore.cgi?search=yes&hits_seen=&product=118497&category=Hot_off_the_Press&keywords=&detail=yes&page=search.html&te

Railway Prototype Cyclopedia #16 included an article on these cars and noted that they designed for long distance service delivering high value produce to eastern markets. The author, Pat Wilder, was

Would the gaps in the wooden roof require repair by the delivering carrier? Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

It also shows a bent top grab! Whew, some of my resin cars are more accurate than I had thought. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Bill is correct! The DVD on the B&O Lake Line includes a view of a Great Northern iron ore car moving on the line in an ore train. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Johannes, you are correct that their omission on the model was very odd and not noted at the time of their import. Those locomotive/passenger car importer guys may have been too busy to notice! Gary L

Challenger Imports brought in these cars in brass (Catalog #2408) using the data supplied by Bob Darwin of hyper detail brass locomotives in MR decades ago. A variety of lettering schemes were offered