Hello folks- 1936 to 1940 were the years that large numbers of square corner Drednaught end equipped '37 AAR box cars were built. As can be seen in the list below of these square corner end cars, ther

Hi Al- Based on your mentioning of IC 50'ers, I went to Fallen Flag and found a 1968 shot of IC 34730, a 4 + 5 panel double door SS car. This car had 5-5-7 Murphy corrugated ends, a lower side sill fi

Yes, Tim, but the Intermountain house cars ride too high on THEIR own trucks. This has been known for a long time. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 7:55:43 AM PST, Tim O'Connor <

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Hi- I am reminded often that we can search for previous STMFC,io posts on subjects of our interest. Tonight I tried to find a search engine on the STMFC.io home page. I could not find one. I admit to

Note that coupled to the right of WP 8078 is another 8051 series car. These cars were somewhat unique in that the lumber door was located in the 'B' end. The vertical shaft brake allowed plenty of roo

A survivor with one side remaining in Santa Fe paint can be found in Southern California's town of Inyokern, just below Ridgecrest at a Hardware and feed store. A high desert community. -Andy Carlson

And not just single sheathed cars. Compare the HO and real close ups of DS cars from my attachments. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Saturday, November 21, 2020, 10:26:54 AM PST, Claus Schlund \(HGM\) <claus

It is a wood sided car. Like a good quality house floor, the well-milled wood sheathing slats are tight fitting. In the years to come, the weaker flat-grained boards will come to light highlighting in

On Saturday, November 14, 2020, 10:28:00 PM PST, np328 <jcdworkingonthenp@...> wrote: Andy, with all due respect, are you positive that presentation was "only ten years ago"? *****************

Back in October I offered HO castings for a WP 40' single sheathed box car. Originally numbered in the 15001-16000 series, a class of 1000 cars which lasted in interchange until the early 1950s. These

About 10 years ago, Richard Hendrickson gave a Naperville clinic on steam era weathering and how it differed markably from the post-steam era. To illustrate the idea, Richard's screen had a lot of Max

Since my becoming a RR slide collector I have a rule of thumb as a critic of color images. I imagine that what view I am looking at is from the view looking outside from the inside of an open window.

Hello folks- I have been receiving orders for the 4/5 sq corner early Dreadnaught end for a possible use on a Yardmaster '37 AAR box car kit. I sent the original message last week. I sent the wrong ph

I could never pronounce Stan's name correctly, let alone remember his spelling. As I wrote my post I did an on-line search and came up with Sherman's lament. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Saturday, October

Hello Everyone- New resin ends for a long planned kitbash. Stan drew my appreciation in his way of finding projects which could be facilitated by making some resin parts. with the interest generated f

My late friend Wayne Madison made this roof pattern for the SSW rebuilt box car. It has a lot of additional material for what I can only figure must have been part of the rebuild process. Ed mentions

Hi folks- Years ago, after discovering one of these Cotton Belt USRA Clone DS double door rebuilds in the Henderson box car book, I made a scale drawing. The cars seem to have been in the 46000 series

Hi Folks- We have seen a history of over production of factory painted kits which were made in quantities that the increasing movement of modelers to RTR saw kits to be over produced. These gluts lead

Hello- I have lots of Red Caboose stake pockets offered for purchase. From Red Caboose's SP F-70-7 flat car. These are the pressed steel type with 4 rivets per pocket. Each sprue contains 24 stake poc

Here is a drawing made by the late Al Armitage of the WP car in early lettering scheme. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Monday, October 12, 2020, 9:30:10 AM PDT, Eric Hansmann <eric@...> wrote: It