Bill There is a beautiful photo in the Morning Sun books called Bessemer, and Lake Erie in color. On page 53 they state fresh from Greenville car shops in 1960. #81001-81800 from two groups of 40ft. 5

Charlie According to my Bessemer roster 2 groups of gons. came from the Union R.R. 1st 18001-18025dteel gon. blt. 1953 70 ton Greenville second hand. 2nd group18051-18063 second hand steel gons. with

Intermountain did a run of the black cars, with white, and orange NH letters also in an orange car not sure of box car red. They were available from NH society. Dave

Allen I too have become prey of the decal scam. I sent an order in Oct.2013 Jerry cashed the check Oct.23rd. I have yet to receive the decals. I sent numerous E-mails,and have had no reply. I asked fo

Hello Bill Please send list who knows? Thanks Dave

You mite try looking in the book TANK CARS AC&F by Kaminski. It has a wealth of pic’s, and info. Dave Sent from Windows Mail

Hello again Elden I have down loaded your series on tank cars.Did you post a parts 1and 6 ? I'm greatly appreciative of your efforts to provide such a wealth of info. on this subject. Dave

Elden I for one will be looking forward to this digital mag. I need all the info. I can find. Thank you Dave

Hello This tank car discussion is a great information gathering tool for me. My modeling is based on the oil industry for the most part. In particular western Pa. I'm glad to see all the interest here

Hi Tony Yes I know about them I came across some of them a few months ago. I purchased several of them @ 140.oo a piece. Not a cost effective way to build a usable fleet. It would be nice if they woul

Hello I had to read several E-mails for it to register that Kadee did a tank car! Why a ACF 11,000? Atlas already has one out. We just had a discussion on tank cars, with wonderful input from Elden Ga

Ed Thanks for your input on the differences between the Atlas, and Kadee cars. I for one enjoyed it. Dave Boss

Looks to me like a PSO, pre PS1 Dave

Hello I was informed back when the Tichy steel rebuilds came out that they were modeled after the Pittsburgh McKee sport, and Youghiogheny R.R., as well as the P&LE. Not sure about NYC Dave Boss

Elden Thank's for the info. I was pretty sure that was true. Scott posted about the tichy car. He had asked if there were any more proto types for the car other than the Georga R.R. I wasn't sure if i

The cars you refer to are probably the X-B&M OB cars they bought second hand. They were a 40ft. car with steel ends, and doors. I believe they had to different roof designs as well. F&C is producing b

I'am deeply saddened to here of the news of Stan. He was a real down to earth guy. Fun to hang out with at the RPM meets. I greatly enjoyed his humor on things. He will certainly be missed by all of u

I'll 3rd this I too model northwestern Pa. I think Southern car foundry makes a 2 dome resin kit.Not sure what kind though.

Hi David Thank you for another tank car. Just Great! I would like to know if you have any undec black 8000,or 10,000 Radial cars, and insulated cars with AB brakes before I order? Also do the kits com

Does anyone know if there is a retainer valve part out there sold by itself other than Precision Scale? I know there are others out there but they are usually in a brake detail set which I'm not willi