Before Mike rules this off-topic, there's a Walthers story that I quickly want to share. I worked in train store for about a year, and we used to have problems getting items from Walthers regardless o

Hello everyone, I'm trying to determine the location of the retainer valve on the B- end of Great Northern USRA double-sheathed boxcars, series 23494- 24993. I'm modeling a car circa 1948, with a vert

Hi Tim No, I haven't. I don't have that issue, nor do I have access to one. Thanks, Mark Heiden series

Hello everyone, Does anyone know what kind of roof was applied to the following series of Maine Central single-sheathed boxcars: MEC 35001-35300 MEC 35652-35901 Thanks, Mark Heiden

Hello Tim, Accurail offers 6ft Pullman Standard doors as part #116. These are probably former McKean parts. Mark Heiden

Hello everyone, I'm going to paint a couple of freight cars and I'd like some suggestions as to what paints (preferably water-based) I should use. The first car is a Chicago & North Western 40ft PS-1,

1937 Design Boxcars for around 3,713 cubic foot capacity the NYC had 6,165 cars with 3,719' cubic capacity - with Hi Tim, Are you sure that all these NYC boxcars are actually of the 1937 AAR design? I

Hi Terry, That makes a lot more sense than my scenario. Those cars probably were on their way to somewhere other than Hagersville. Mark Heiden they came the have been and originating in with the

is that?) Hi Tim, As Peter pointed out, Hagersville is indeed southwest of Hamilton, very near to the heart of tobacco country in southwestern Ontario. If I'm reading this right, the cars were loaded

Hello Sam and Ed, Thanks for the information; this was exactly what I was looking for! Do either of you know of any good pictures showing the door gussets? I found a photo of RI 27560 on Fallen Flags,

Hello everyone, I'm working on a model of a New York Central 52ft AAR gondola, series 712500-713099, built 1949, using the Proto 2000 kit. I'd like to paint and letter it for a car that was shopped an

Hello everyone, I have a couple of questions concerning the construction details of NYC 176200-176799, 50ft single door boxcars from Lot 692-B built in 1941. Prototypes photos are available on page 68

Hello everyone, I have two questions about modeling the patch panels that were added to Pennsylvania X29 boxcars. There are two photos of X29s with these panels at: http://www.steamfreightcars.com/gal

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some information regarding possible renumbering of some Illnois Central bocxars, series 170001-175000. These are 40ft single sheathed boxcars with fishbelly underframes

Hi Bill, There were quite a few railroads that owned 1937 AAR boxcars. I recommend you check out the 1937 AAR boxcar list on the Steam Era Freight Cars website. It's at: http://www.steamfreightcars.co

Hello everyone, I'm working on a model of a Central of New Jersey 40ft PS-1 with an 8ft door, using the Intermountain kit. The kit comes with Superior and Youngstown doors, but the CNJ cars had Pullma

Hello everyone, I'm making a shopping list of detail parts to model a pair of Erie 1958 cu ft covered hoppers, using Bowser 55600 kits as the basis. From what I can tell, these cars were part of serie

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some information on the following Colorado & Southern and Nickel Plate steel boxcars. First, C&S 1500-1799, 300 cars built 1957, class XM-32e. I need to know: 1) What k

Hello everyone, I'm mounting Kadee #78 couplers and scale coupler pockets on an HO Intermountain PS-1 kit. Looking at prototype photos, the coupler pockets seem to extend out from the end of the car a

Hello Richard, Thanks for the dimensions. The plates are much bigger than I imagined. Could the 9"X2l" dimensions be extrapolated to most trust plates, or would they vary road to road? Thanks, Mark He