As long as we are agonizing over car distribution I want to ask a question about empty reefer movements. I have a September 1935 schedule for less than car load freight on the Colorado & Southern. It

And I look closer and see that I was wrong about spanning two cars. Belay my last. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

And it looks like they are loaded in a way that has individual trucks spanning from one flat or gon to the next (i.e. front wheels on one car, rear wheels on another). Look at the far right of the pic

Also interesting is the single rows of rivets where the interior tank dividers are located. Usually what I have seen on these types of conversions are double rivet rows evidencing two interior tank he

It is a nice looking car in the photos. I am tempted to buy one. Has anyone on this list tried these? I wonder if this (3D printing) is the future of modeling, replacing resin casting. I've heard it s

Pure speculation on my part, but if it really is orange and black, if the other markings also are orange and black, that would make for a spectacular scheme on a gray tank, which is what it looks like

Staffan, I never heard the term either. And in my limitless ignorance I never knew that GN ore cars ever went off the GN. I assumed they shuttled between the mines and the ore docks and that was it. I

Looking through my ORERs for BCX, I see that in Jan '38 they reported having 34 tank cars, including #1121, which was described as "Gond., Coal Compt. Tank" with a capacity of 1,000 gallons. I wonder

A few years ago there was an article in, I believe, RMC about kitbashing a Schnabel car from a Kibri kit. I seem to have lost my copy and am wondering if anyone can provide me with a scan of the artic

One idea occurred to me. It looks like the car had been recently reweighed. If there had been repairs might they have included applying some kind of sealant to the seam caps? Perhaps with some fairly

The sides from the Accurail 8500 series reefer would work with sill tabs cut into the sill. New ends would be needed as the prototype (at least the BAR 2000 series) had 1R/2/4 ends. It looks like they

Staffan, Thanks for your detailed reply. I have a lot of information on C&S freight cars, but it includes no information that the C&S bought any GN ore cars. I believe these were GN revenue service ca

Thanks, Gary. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

By GN ore cars I assume you are referring to the shorty steel ore cars like those once modeled by Varney, MDC, and Walthers (essentially single-bay hoppers). Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

I forgot to put a subject on my original post. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

I have at hand a selection of "bulletins" from the Colorado & Southern from the 1930s through the 1950s. They generally are one or two sentences and refer to things like a new siding being in place, s

These cars are on my to-do list. I bought some shielded flat cable to strip the copper mesh shielding out of for the exterior of the car sides. That is the smallest useful mesh I have been able to loc

Yes! I had just found it. The plans are for Live Poultry Transportation Co. No. 507, named Chanticleer. The car was 34'8" long. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Many years ago MR had plans for a poultry car. I'm thinking it was in the 1960s, maybe 1950s. have spent the last couple of hours looking for my copy of it, to no avail. Richard Townsend Lincoln City,

AHM made a model tank car whose tank is a good starting point for modeling these cars. They show up regularly on eBay. I just checked and two are there now. One is lettered for Gulf and the other for