The early CB&T Santa Fe reefer kits had VERY crude detail sprues. I can't vouch for them dimensionally, but the body castings themselves were pretty nice. Walt Lankenau

I think Steve's point was that the (bankrupt) O&W owed much, much more in per diem payments than it could ever hope to receive from its connections, given the paltry number of O&W cars that could go o

pilings were for a pier. Possibly, but the Edgewater plant was built on filled-in tidal flats adjacent to the Hudson River. When erecting a large structure on such a site, pilings would be driven down

Recently there was a brief discussion here, which mostly questioned the two-board tackboards. But while we're on the subject, I have to question Atlas's choice of road names. The only ones I'm even re

Thanks Jason, I didn't look all that closely at the roster and didn't pick up the radial roof on the C&O's cars. The WM's had the Duryea underframe, too, although I think the panel roof would be OK. M

AAR 70-ton flatcar from Intermountain: http://www.ircmodelersclub.com/images/flyer184w.jpg Walt Lankenau

wrote: Thank you, Richard, I thought there was a difference in the stake pockets but couldn't remember what it was. Santa Fe is among the initial road names offered by IM; the others are New Haven 173

Hey, it's ready to run and has a *real wood* deck! But seriously, the Red Caboose SP flat was pretty pricey, too, although one might think the tooling costs would be somewhat less than for a house car

wrote: And Richard replied: From http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-MODELS-FREIGHT.htm I quote: "An issue that keeps coming up concerns the color used on NYC freight cars - primarily the open top

wrote: Could there be an upside to this? Such as a possible resurgence of kits vs. rtr, if assembly starts to cost too much over there? Walt Lankenau

Maybe for some, but I would rather assemble a well-made kit than open a box and put a model on the track. Of course, I don't have any track to put it on, so that could have something to do with my pre

Meaning what? Trying to find enough parts that match? Walt Lankenau

Ah, very good point. That did bug me about the Kato hoppers (which I never bought), and now that you mention it, didn't the Broadway N&W hoppers only come in six-packs? That's fine if you model the N&

scout Great idea, Jerry. I sent a few boxes of old stuff to a G.I. in Iraq last year, and if I knew of a charitable place to send my old Athearn blue box and other outdated freight car (and other) kit

It sounds like some of the "one piece body" kits apparently use "masters" which are nothing more than an assembled flat-kit body. (I thought the O-P-B F&C X26c we've seen in photos here looked like a

I've been under the impression that the Duryea underframe was an early form of what became known as a "cushion" underframe in the 60's. So I can certainly understand its application to boxcars. And I

Would this also be appropriate for the Trix double door boxcar? Walt Lankenau

These cars have been discussed here before. Here's a photo in the Files section: http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/IKETSX5LqK2OC1ROhkiiVMyYmam5wOjT5mZjgqP-vi8SF09C6h8Gk0TrA7_8B9tZgUQER0haiAeltzXMM8qBe0_ZZe

To represent nuts, rather than rivets, you mean? Walt Lankenau

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=freight+car+source:life&imgurl=4617f3a9036aa1cd popped up among the Life photos. A great photo from a weathering standpoint, too! How about those toe scuffs up