Count me in Roger Hinman

Its still there, they did a major reorganizatoin. Go to http://railroad.union.rpi.edu. If you are a member, your password needs to be upgraded. Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this message have bee

The drawings for the book were all done in 2D CAD and originally printed in O scale. It is relatively low tech in this day and age to copy and scale any printed drawing. I would be more than glad to p

Good question; I'll be discussing IC rfgr cars in my Cocoa Beach presentation. I just looked through all the photos I've been able to find and the only one I have showing silver roofs is a circa 1940

The NYC car is definitely a hopper Roger Hinman

There's a couple of MDT cars there but no billboards on them Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

One of the things I did with the book is to dump the M system I came up with in the Mainline Modeler articles but yes the Sunshine kits were the M5 in its final configuration (and least number built).

For Connecticut, I think its pretty save to say the New Haven was in every county and had a monopoly For Massachusetts Barnstable New Haven Plymouth New Haven Bristol New Haven Norfolk New Haven Suffo

The LS&MS cars are ACF's interpretation of the SSC common design as modified for the NYC. These were ACF lot 5415 ordered and built in 1909; there's a photo of one of these cars on Al Westerfield's AC

I've never used Jerry's decals but I had a similar problem when I tried printing my own using an inkjet printer. Unless running lettering is a weathering effect one is looking for, I was not happy wit

How about a Sinclair tank car http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5786895798/ Boxcar on too tight a radius? http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5786894808/

Arnold Premo, please contact me off line(rhinman11@...) I have a response to your question that will include a photo also. Roger Hinman

It was $5 when I ordered some last year Roger HInman [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I can help you with ERDX but you may want to be a bit more specific in your question. (time frame, etc). Most of the ERDX cars are discussed in the MDT book. Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this me

http://books.google.com/books?id=RE1QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229&dq=fishbelly+center+sill&source=bl&ots=-2_LmL1b57&sig=NOuEWEDzsNWRenJ-zAudOcslinc&hl=en&ei=TW3STZtpwdyBB6653NML&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=

Researching the early reefer companies can be problematic as information is very sparce. My understanding of URT is it was picked up by ART in the early 1890s, then was set up as an independent compan

The 1931 cars had an EW of 9' 9 3/4" over the roof fascia's and 9' 7 5'8" over the side sheathing. (per the XS drawing) The WMKX car per its car diagram listed a side sheathing dimension of 9' 9 1/2".

I've assumed they used the Despatch panel roofs but I don't have a good shot to confirm Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

The cars were built as steel frame cars in 1931 with wood siding and ends; in the rebuild process new steel side panels were added as well as new ends, roofs and doors. The WMRX cars were a small piec

My reocrds who Std Steel drawing 48808 and 49375 were for trucks used on 1924 NYC hoppers, here were a couple of other drawings but the number was not readable. Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this