I think most corn syrup shipments pre-1975 (pre-HFCS) went to large bakeries and canneries, not bottling plants. To put things in perspective, in the early '50s (I forget exactly which year) the railr

I think a UN committee came up with the numbers starting in 1975, but they didn't appear on freight cars until mid-1983. That's when I saw my first one (1203, gasoline) on a company service trailer an

>An interesting photo of a >recycled tank car taken by >Chuck Zeiler: http://tinyurl.com/y73q8tqs That is a ICC-104 or insulated 103, or if built before 1927, an ARA-IV or insulated ARA-III. It is not

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34780/ Pretty clear the color was yellow then. While dirty, the overall carbody color matches the fresh paint patches. Scott Chatfield

While you might call it a slightly orangish yellow as opposed to lemon yellow, those cars are definitely not orange. Scott Chatfield

I should also like to point out that just because a group of older cars is listed in the ORER doesn't mean they actually in service. News reports from the late '50s indicated huge numbers of cars owne

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: >And in the case in point, these were USRA cars built 1919-1920, so as 1960 approached, they were beginning to reach the age (40 years) when they would be prohibited in interc

Follow up question. When the cars were retrofitted with new hatches were the running boards changed to steel? The model has wood boards. Scott Chatfield

When did the Santa Fe rebuild their reefers so the hatches opened toward the center of the car, like almost all other reefers? I know they did it so mechanized icing chutes had easier access to the bu

http://m.ebay.ca/itm/ORIG-SLIDE-WHITE-PASS-39-SINGLE-LARGE-DOME-TANK-/391706076791?nav=SEARCH An X-3? Isn't that too big a tank to only have one safety vent? Scott Chatfield

Does anybody have an idea of when the GATX 25990-series 2-dome tankcars was built? Trying to get the lettering on a kitbashed model in the ballpark. Thanks. Scott Chatfield

Sounds like the Detail Associates set, although I've only seen them molded in brown. Scott Chatfield

Since the reefer has a diagonal panel roof I'm pretty sure it was built with steel running boards. Scott Chatfield

The Carbon County 3-bays I've seen were 9-panel offsets. Scott Chatfield

I was recently given a nice example of the old Ulrich 3-bay hopper. It is unusual in having 12-panel offset sides. Was this design only owned by the B&LE? B&LE 76857 is stuffed and mounted at thr Conn

Clark Probst wrote: >I’ve noticed that the 1958 cu ft covered hoppers seem to have different height hatch flanges. Without comparing the models I can’t say which have tall versa short flanges, but I b

I have an Intermountain 10,000 gallon Type 27, SHPX 10798. I rescued it from an abusive home so it was missing some parts, like the control valve, dome platforms, etc. In RPCyc #3, page 14, there's a

I know NATX had at least a few welded 10,000 gallon tanks in the 18150-series, but those had high dome platforms with railings. Did they also have any without that platform? In other words, did they h

I know the end platforms of UTLX X-3, X-4, and X-5 tank cars were filled in between the bolster and end beam, but what were they filled in with? Scott Chatfield

The cheap "craft" acrylics are not easy to thin. I use airbrush _cleaner_ to thin my acrylics for airbrushing, but I mostly use Polly Scale/Model Master and Accu/ModelFlex and those are already airbru