Bob Chaparro asked: There is also, of course, the Southern Car & Foundry resin kit, makes a very nice car. Tony Thompson tony@...

Bob Chaparro wrote: Overland made an insulated car like this in brass. Tony Thompson tony@...

Nelson Moyer wrote: My comment about the Sunshine tank cars is that yes, they are not easy, but "slow and patient wins the day." It's more a case of them being complex models with lots of construction

Yes, I think so. Frank would know. Tony Thompson

Bob Chaparro wrote: Um, it's a double door, Bob. They have just disable one half, so only one door functions. Tony Thompson tony@...

Bob Chaparro wrote: Nice photo! And how many of us have coal loads like that? Tony Thompson tony@...

Richard Bale wrote: This conflicts with what was in Model Railroader in the late 1940s. It stated that Globe was founded in 1942 by Frank Taylor, who had been editor of MR, joined by well-known O scal

Richard Balewrote: This conflicts with what was in Model Railroader in the late 1940s. It stated that Globe was founded in 1942 by Frank Taylor, who had been editor of MR, joined by well-known O scale

Nope, not Associated but the midwestern subsidiary. They used TIDX for years. See my blog post on Tidewater Associated. Tony Thompson

I wrote: Sorry, forgot to include the link to the blog post on the company history, including the Tidewater Midcontinent Division that used TIDX. Here it is: https://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2013/12

Note that the photo shows revenue agents confiscating contraband liquor -- the date less than a year before Prohibition would be repealed. Tony Thompson tony@...

Bob Chaparro wrote: Nice view of a string of Blackburn beet racks, an HO model of which is now being produced by Owl Mountain Models. Tony Thompson tony@...

Rich Christie wrote: Actually, the modeling description was an article in Railroad Model Craftsman, published back in July 2011. I don't have a scan of the article, but do have a PDF of what I sent to

Richard Townsend wrote: Photograph would be nice, of course. But AFAIK all the early Champ stuff is totally prototype based, even if some lettering is a little crude. I am not aware of any Champ foibl

Ken Adams wrote: Shell had their own tank car fleet, both SCMX and SCCX (the latter for Shell Chemical, shipping such things as alcohols). Tidewater Associated (the correct company name) had their own

Peter Ness wrote: Walthers bought the dies and produced the GS gondola cars for a time; I have several in Walthers kit boxes. The gentleman in Colorado who obtained the dies from Walthers really only

Bruce Metcalf wrote: There were studies in the model magazines back in the 1950s that concluded (possibly correctly) that the biggest factor in car weight performance was CONSISTENT car weight. As Bru

Ken Adams wrote: In your and my modeling period, Ken, UTLX was pretty substantially in bed with the "baby Standards" such as Standard of California, and to my knowledge had nothing to do with Shell. T

Andy Jackson wrote: Depends on the outside and inside diameter of the coils, and on the width of the strip. But the "standard" coils in use at the time these cars were built were loaded two at each en

And a tiny nit in Bob's list: the Stewart-Lundahl paint was 410M. I struggled with it myself, so I am sure of the answer <g>. Tony Thompson tony@...