I ordered some too, nice looking parts. Perhaps the corrugations are a bit oversize for HO, so maybe they'd look appropriate for O. But I think the lengths are about right for what I know about the pr

So the one thing I'm curious about, that I don't recall from the Soo book (mine is packed),is what prompted the center-door design? I know this became quite a bit more common, alter the end of this li

In Terry Metcalf's Union Pacific 1936-1951 book, there is a photo of a guy painting a freight car while standing on the ground, and he's wielding a similar extension nozzle. .Presumably the color is s

That part of Kansas overlays a very large gas field, the Hugoton. Could there have been a carbon black plant on the branch? I know there was one owned by Cabot right off the Santa Fe mainline (now the

So now a modeler's question -- how was it painted over? Did the repainted cars have a roughly rectangular irregular blob? After the end of this list, I have seen cars with the Chief slogan with 'All P

So a bigger part of this question is about models of round roof boxcars. I'm excluding the wagon-top, and the Seaboard cars (a Sunshine kit for one of those is coming up soon on my build list), just t

Following up on the previous thread, I have a W&R brass model of this car, the flush roof 40' double door box. I saw recently that there are a few custom painted versions on eBay, all painted NP. I th

For a short time, the UPHS offered a kit for the S-40-6, which I assumed when I ordered them were 40' cars. In fact, they were 36', and the kit is an interesting mix of Red Caboose parts from the SP s

I use the Axian storage boxes, first when I took every car off the layout several years ago when the floors were being re-done, second as I move inter-state where I have a lot of car storage boxes sta

There was one. Sunshine 65.7/65.8 (only difference, according to the order sheet, was different decals for different eras). I have one, that will probably be built soon. Ron Merrick

On the color of kick plates: It depends on the era you're modeling. In the late steam era, kick plates on wooden ART cars were usually red. There are a few published color photos that show this. The k

Maybe we can combine those with the PA-3 (PA-2?) that's never been made by Walthers or anyone else in plastic. Ron Merrick

Great, thanks. Good detail photos of the carbody and lettering, and two different cars. RG7

Can anybody enlighten me about the Reading XMv cars, specifically the ones rebuilt? Reference the F&C kit 8391, which I just bought. It looks like the PRR X28 in dimensions, in other words a taller ca

Different issue -- does this car have a steeper roof slope than normal? Or is that an illusion? Ron Merick

It looks like a coke drum. In a delayed coker, which produces petroleum coke, the reaction occurs in the heater and on the way to the drum, where the coke settles out and the light hydrocarbon vapors

Notice the hand car just barely visible on the ground to the left, evidently set off the track. Ron Merrick

Oh yes, how could I forget? :-P I picked a couple of the Rydarowicz cars last year, and I've also bought some Sunshine from him based on eBay listings. But I don't think the Ferrari is for sale. Ron M

I couldn't get to St. Louis this year. Was there a dealer who had some Stan Rydarowicz kits? There was one last year, but I lost track of who it was. Ron Merrick

OK, thanks, I'll stick with the roman lettering and add some paint-out reweigh data. Now to repaint some IM and Kadee steel boxcars in the 1958 scheme. I have both Microscale and Musk Island decals to