Somewhere, I don't recall on which thread, someone expressed surprise that there was a single door version. Big surprise to me too, but I could use a T&P version. Lo and behold, eBay came through. The

If this photo is New Orleans, then the ship is facing upriver since the docks were mostly along the city side. The angle of the sun reinforces that thought. That makes it more likely that this is an u

Wow, I don't even remember this company. I was an active modeler then, and was actually in the country after having been on assignment. What I do remember about that era, and a few years later, was th

So just to summarize and close this topic out, and a continuation of my last post, the 37000-37499 and 37500-37974 do appear to be identical, built about two years apart. Some offline discussion says

There is this one, of URTX 37889: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=891416 It does appear to be identical to the 37000-37499 series. This may not be true for all cars of this series

And that's interesting, because the 7'-0" door on the 37000 series looks to me to be pretty much full height. Model-wise, if I simply build another one of these cars, it wouldn't be out of place. But

I assumed as much. But, I'll take some brownies to have cars that at least have a brakewheel. Ron Merrick

I was cutting out parts from the Tichy 3013 AB brake set today and happened to notice that there are two flatcar-appropriate brake shaft supports on this sprue also. These are parts 23 and 24, which l

This large series of cars, built by GATC for Union Refrigerator Transit, was as far as I know leased to MILW in its entirety. It's interesting for the horizontal seam carside construction, and the Dur

Ha. They are indeed on eBay, but as it happens, yesterday morning after I read this post I went to a train show in Stafford (metro Houston) and a fellow lister had a URTX 37000 (Miwaukee) kit that I p

Aha. Duryea underframe and all. I thought these might be the cars covered in RPCyc vol.14, but they're not. Those in the article were the previous generation, with steel underframes, with or without D

I built one of those Walthers URTX reefers. It was a good car, for its day, and the Duryea underframe was somewhat well represented, at least the crossbearers, but there was no draft gear extension. M

One more reason I think this car, and I can't generalize beyond this single example, is an ex-Swift car, is that if you look closely at the ends, they appear to be one of those semi-dartnot designs wh

These 50 foot, mid-50s built Duryea underframes are the ne plus ultra (there is nothing beyond) of Duryea underframes. Branchline conveniently overlooked this issue with the otherwise well-executed pl

Thought I replied to this earlier, but something happened. The low doors with double latch bars suggest an ex-meat reefer. The prominent sidesill tabs suggest a fairly late car. The apparent 36' lengt

I have a half-finished CNJ one with the Duryea underframe. The exposed fishbelly bracing on the F&C model is a little thick, but I just looked at it and a little file work on the back side should make

I wrote a book in 1990 which used lots of black & white photos I obtained from various industrial sources. Many prints I got still had the 'rubylith' attached. This was a sheet of red film placed over

For the MP series, here's what Sunshine said. http://www.sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun21c.pdf Open frame. I never built one of these cars, since as a group of 100 cars it wasn't very representative o

There are also numerous builder's photos of freight cars that were photographed fully painted (the "as-delivered" paint scheme), but with underbody details, the inner surfaces of wheels, and sometimes

It looks like panels of woven reinforcing wire, used for pavement. Ron Merrick