I like it too! :-)

Charlie Seriously ! At our age memory and health and habits ain't what they used to be... I've been known not to read email for weeks at a time. Maybe he didn't expect such a wonderful turn, done so q

I really like the SLRX truss rod reefer ! Box cars could be surprisingly clean, within a few months of painting... This one was painted eight months before someone took its picture.

is this the color picture you mean ? definitely looks like a black roof and underneath to me A long while ago I built a C&S airslide and didn't know the underside shoud be black -- but that turned out

Eric Mumper's Intermountain model.

Ted's Sunshine model

Brian thanks for posting that digital scan C&A 1200. The distinctive 14 panel aluminum box cars were built for five railroads C&A, NKP, RI, C&O, M&StL. The Great Northern design was unique to the GN.

I would simply attribute what I see in the NP builder photo to unevenly planed boards i.e. the boards are not exactly perfectly planed to the same thicknesses. With gloss paint, even a tiny difference

Yes, you have it right about the beaded siding. By "V" groove are you talking about beveled edges of the boards so that when they are joined together there is a shallow gap between them? Because, yeah

Someone mentioned Sinclair on the UP in Wyoming. This is CNW's yard serving Standard Oil in Casper Wyoming. These would almost all be UTLX cars. Possibly many of these can be modeled in HO from resin

I am confused. The drawing definitely shows tongue-in-groove (interlocking) boards. Just above where it says "Section Through Side Plate". Are you guys referring instead to "beaded" siding, which the

Bruce LOL. WHERE did I say crude was shipped by rail to the east coast, EXCEPT in WWII ? Most of the refineries were then, and are now, in the three states I mentioned. Most crude oil movements by rai

Excellent build and finish. I really like the CNW NWX cars.

Early in the war solid trainloads of CRUDE oil plus large blocks had to be moved to east coast refineries (spread from Chesapeake Bay up to North Jersey) by rail until a huge new pipeline "Big Inch" I

It's really beside the point Dave. The argument was made that tank cars should resemble the "stair step" of box cars while MOST tank cars for DECADES were plain old single dome 8k and 10k (I don't car

Rich Ah so! But things get more interesting -- The Red Caboose model CORRECTED the door opening. The Front Range door opening is actually 7-9 rather than 8-0. And the Front Range doors are 8-0 which i

I dunno, Bruce. As in most things, I think it 'depends' on what is being modeled. Large numbers of 8,000 gallon and lesser numbers of 10,000 gallon tank cars ARA III/ICC103 were predominant for petrol

Andy OMG it wasn't the trucks so much as the wheel sets! I'm fairly sure those also were a Front Range legacy, since I have some Front Range kits with those horrible metal wheel trucks (which were in

Rich Oh, WOW, I never noticed that !! Yes, the panel sizes are incorrect on the Red Caboose 8 foot door cars because the original Front Range tooling had the wrong panel sizes ! When Bill McClung redi

Chris The artwork you sent shows two PC&F cars. Easily recognized by the roof overhang on the ends! Your photo shows two New Haven PC&F cars. Bryan also did OKEX models in his N scale PC&F model, but