Dennis Storzek wrote: No argument, Dennis, but there are also plenty of instances from those days of dedicated modelers providing very complete info packages, and the manufacturer going ahead with som

Bruce Smith wrote: You are right that Richard had nothing to do with model design and was less than happy about what eventually came from OMI. At one point he pulled out his prints of all the photos h

Bruce Smith wrote: Um, no. The prototype photo of this car was indeed provided by Richard to OMI, as were photos of all the cars they did in this run of various tank cars. He did say once that he wasn

SP had such box cars for cement. Tony Thompson

There were a bunch of them, covered in the book. Tony Thompson

Plexiglas is polymethyl methacrylate. Tony Thompson

Remember that auto shipping by rail steadily shrank through the 50s, down to barely 10 percent of all shipments, until the introduction of auto racks in late 50s. Tony Thompson

I would try canopy glue. Tony Thompson

No, CSRM only has ORERs from about 1897 onward (it began in 1885 IIRC), and are missing occasional issues to about 1970, then spotty. But for this list, a superb collection. Tony Thompson

Usual history is that WW II greatly increased awareness and use of steel strapping. Tony Thompson

Sorry, Don, this was a common painting technique. Both SP and PFE used it, to name two. Tony Thompson

Guy Wilber wrote: Swift sold all their refrigerator cars to General American sometime (I believe) in early 1937. Does anyone have an exact date of the transaction? And of course leased them back. .Ton

Yeah, there’s some fool publisher that keeps doing reefer books. Tony Thompson

No argument in general, but one point to keep in mind is that even when there is a reweigh date, it may be MANY years prior to the photo date, implying it was a repair date, not periodic reweigh. Ther

ALL tank cars, including Linde Tank Cars, would have weight data and most would have reweigh data. Nope. Plenty of tank cars had their NEW weight decades after being built. I don’t agree that even “mo

Depends on era. IIRC the scheme you have is the as-built scheme. Others on the list can doubtless enlarge on this. Tony Thompson

Very distressing news. I got to know Ron through his sales of Signature Press books, and always enjoyed his good humor and retail knowledge. And I was always impressed with the well-stocked stores he

On Sep 27, 2019, at 8:14 PM, Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:  Empty Car Card Below is an image of a PRR card "For Empty Cars Only". There are instructions on the

I agree with Tim, and I have asked previously on this list about NP reefer color, especially whether and when it changed from yellow to light orange. No answer. Tony Thompson

Ken Roth wrote: Can't help with the steam line location, Ken, but the SP BX-50-24 cars were 5700-5749. Tony Thompson tony@signaturepress.com