Lookin’ great! I need one of these. Now I have a bar to shoot for. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

The Fe-21 is somewhat an odd group in the Fe classes. These were rebuilt from Fe-S class. The original plan was to rebuild these as double door cars with dreadnaught end doors at the A end. A last min

If you are modeling an Fe-22… 7031 is recorded in 1/41 with GRAND CANYON 7071 is recorded in 1945 with CHIEF 7125 is recorded in 8/44 with CHIEF These from info in the SFRH&MS in the Santa Fe Painting

In the summer of 1966 my summer job between college semesters was as a labor at the Phillips 66 regional distribution TBA warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee. Thank you for the memories of unload trucks w

Architects … before the current high tech tools were common … would model their concepts in white models with dried plant material providing the ‘growies’. I must confess that i have thought about mod

If “76” that would be “UNION 76”. If “PHILLIPS” then “PHILLIPS 66”. Cheers? Bill Keene Irvine, CA

The SFRM&HS' SANTA FE OPEN-TOP CARS, by Richard Hendrickson, has photos of the GA-53 cars on pages 146-148. While most of the underside stuff is hidden in the shadows, a couple of the photos do show w

no photos :-( Bill Keene Irvine, CA

This PRR … Panama Rail Road … dates from around 1849. It was constructed with 5’-0” gauge track. The current railroad is the Panama Canal Railway that started operations in 2001 after rebuilding the r

The link took me to FB … but … there was a button asking if I wanted to leave FB. It got pushed and the web site linked page came up. Not a problem. As I want nothing to do with FB I am very pleased t

I have been told that the MKT also shipped cantaloupes north from Texas in stock cars. Unfortunately, I do not have any documentation on this. I believe that cantaloupes and watermelons were loaded on

WeTransfer is also a very good service … easy to use … and free. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Charlie, Lookin’ Good! Thank you for adding to my meager modeling knowledge base. Cheers & Happy Modeling Bill Keene Irvine, CA

I have been away from this thread for a day, but someone mentioned that the lumber was being unloaded … I assume the statement referenced unloading from ship to rail. Looking at the photos and the mar

Thank you for sharing your RIP Track work. Wonderful. Thank you also for setting a bar to work toward. It is great to have good examples to follow. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

All of this talk about unbuilt kits got me to thinking about what is still on the shelf… At present there are 35 unbuilt resin kits + 47 unbuilt plastic kits + six kit-bashes in various stages of modi

Thank you Mike for your additional comments. I understand what you are trying to accomplish. It is most likely that these cars by the time they reached 1965 did have a number of modifications and repa

Lookin’ good. Not sure that I would thicken the decal very much or at all. Remember, in HO scale the patch plate of 1/4 inch thickness would only be 0.00275 of a real inch when reduced to scale size.

Tom, Yes. This may turn into a small scratch building project. Drawings would be a great help. Thanks & Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Easy to answer… First, I was looking for a car that required the least revision to the factory lettering. Using the car I purchased would require only revising the reporting initials and numbers. The