And how many are home road cars? Um, zero? Walt Lankenau

The photo I've seen is by Dwight Smith. It appears on page 112 of "New England Diesels" by Dave Albert and George Melvin, and on page 63 of Volume VI of Nimke's Connecticut River Railroads series. The

Thank you, Richard. Of course, I'd haved to choose something exotic. In the photo I've seen, it's coupled to a welded SAL B-10 box which is taller than the UP car, so I'd guess the IH to be a bit less

Thanks for the information, Tim. Guess I did mean Red Caboose, rather than IM. Walt Lankenau

I'm interested in modeling UP 471441, a 40' double door boxcar, since it's been documented as operating on the route I want to model. Is this the same class as the Trix double-door model, or the Inter

I thought of those too, Al, but the current Tichy parts list doesn't show them: http://tichytraingroup.com/index.php?page=view_category.php&category=Freight+Car+Parts&offset=0 However, the flatcar kit

Sounds like you need to adopt some sort of waybill system, which would tell your crews exactly what to pick up and what to drop off at every station. I'm sure there's a Yahoo list devoted to such oper

Try railpub.com/ Walt Lankenau

I've done that on yellow and orange cars, and while doing so very slightly darkens the color, I think it's an improvement. Have not tried dulling the exterior with a flat spray, but that would help to

When Conrail was split up, CSX used the NYC reporting marks to identify its ex-CR cars. I doubt that many were actually ex-NYC. Walt Lankenau

The initial version of this car is available as an undec kit, No. 43699. It seems that most IM cars are offered in kit form: http://www.imrcmodels.com/ho/hokit.htm Walt Lankenau

I don't think Jason is stuck in the 80's. He seems to be open to other eras. Witness the 1954 CN passenger cars and the 30's era Osgood-Bradley cars. Hopefully he can find a steam era freight car with

Gentlemen, feast your eyes on this assortment of STMFC's. Wood as far as the eye can see: http://www.shorpy.com/node/5663?size=_original And, have we seen this Delano frame of Proviso, yet? http://www

Well of course, I didn't caption it . . . and also, I didn't notice the Santa Fe-ness of that car until the second or third look, because at first I was more interested in the boat. I believe all the

Here's a third image of the boat load (the original two are below it): http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index_view.cfm?photoid=1860412688&id=54 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index_vie

Who would ever think to ship a large boat by rail . . . on its SIDE? http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index_view.cfm?photoid=-66313070&id=54 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index_view.c

I don't know, but I have another question about these cars; were they in captive service, or were they used in interchange? Walt Lankenau

34500- 35999 10'IH early PS-1 cars. . . . The old Kurtz Kraft PS1 kits, later offered by Model Railroad Warehouse, IIRC, might be a good starting point. They were flat styrene kits, so making modifica

...one MWR car every ten days. My sample of the real UP box car data is so small that IF I want the appearances of box cars to match the long term ratios, I can't include cars with less than one car.

Good point, but remember that the entire car was silver on the Santa Fe, so even if the roof got dirty, the sides would stay cleaner and retain their reflective properties to a greater extent. Walt La