Could someone please explain the difference in the AAR standard hopper design and the alternate design. I have the Montour/C&I mini kit and would like to know how noticable the change will be to the c

Just got my MP hopper conversion from Ted and started on it. Could someone tell me what the retangular pieces are and where do they go. Larry Smith

David That style of lettering for the VGN H8s can be done using Champ's VGN roadname set combined with the hopper set. Virginian put their car classes on all their cars and that data is missing from t

Sloss is still open to the public and other areas are being restored making it a major museum site. They have completly restored the area under the receiving tracks and you can go under them and see h

Shawn I've built lots of cars from resin and made my own. I have cast an entire fleet of, while not applicable to this list, EBT double hoppers. They are as strong as any of the styrene cars I have an

Gary That was a Chlorine car. Larry Smith GMeyer6103@... wrote:

Shawn I won't say never because that will get you in trouble, but I doubt if the NYC gons would have been used on the SSW. Larry Smith "Beckert, Shawn" wrote:

Greg I wrote the section on the automobile cars prior to the introduction of the high cube and auto racks and it was edited down from around 60000 words to just over 3500 to fit in the space, so there

I'm doing a review of the new Walthers' caboose and the sample I received is for the C&NW. I know the prototype for this cabosse is GTW, but I have a question? Did the C&NW have anything close to them

Victor Where have you been? Westerfield canceled out of the Wathers catalog last year when they presented him a bill for, I think $1500, as a cost of being in the catalog. Al pulled his listing and no

Shawn What do you mean rumor. Its a fact and they are already doing it. Larry Smith "Beckert, Shawn" wrote:

I know that Armour had one such facilities in Huntington, WV. It was interesting in the fact that it was served on two sides by two different railroads, the C&O on the river side and the B&O on the st

Tim You might also want to add that the South Shore also operated the same type of equipment. What I found interesting was that there were two type of piggyback cars. One that held two trailers and th

I was surprised by that one too. I'll get the info together today and post it. Larry Smith Schuyler G Larrabee wrote:

I know from research that the follwoing railroads operated piggyback behind steam. Chicago Great Western, New Haven, Lackawana, and now SP. The questions I have are PRR and B&O along with the NKP. The

I think this group is what he's looking for as far as the railroad cars go. I have some info on the Lakawana cars and it seems as though they were cut down hopper cars. I'll check on my info and post

Ted Dick has been critically ill and from what I understand recently had a lung transplant, so the whole company has been on a slow down. Larry Smith Ted Culotta wrote:

Please give it a check and see if they are listed Larry Armand Premo wrote:

I was refered to a site that contained a lot of photos of one of my favorite railroads, the Buffalo Creek and Gauley. In one of the photos, taken at the Widon tipple in 1925 that the BC&G had two type

Garth I have a HN-58 I'll be glad to send you. Just send me your address off list. Larry Smith "Garth G. Groff" wrote: