I know there were Milwaukee rib side cars with 4/4 ends and lumber doors. I did one on a model which would have looked pretty good if I had carefully CENTERED it on the end! I don't know if this is a

Sorry if this has been covered (the thread was going out of my interest and I deleted a bunch of msgs unread) but I saw a plant probably in Commerce a couple of years ago; I believe it was then "Pillo

I believe Sunshine offers a pig iron load. I was wondering if this would be sensible for a (Westerfield) B&O USRA-clone gondola. (I don't want to hide the cast interior side detail with a tall load, a

In the first few messages I was seeing just HOW little I knew... now it's beginning to make sense. The way I'm reading it, the item Sunshine sells as (2 or 3 to a car) "pig iron" is mislabeled... (?)

Arnie's Trains in Westminster has about 80 Westerfield detail parts ($2.25 to $4.50 range) in a closeout box for 25 cents. Includes PRR containers (singles), ACF reefer hatches, hopper detail sets, do

Feel free to shoot this one down with extreme prejudice, but the last time I went to the Tall Mouse craft store to find something I might be able to adapt for model rr use, all I even considered buyin

Maybe next time somebody will set up a card table in the lobby to accept and redistribute the mini-kits! Scott Pitzer

Clark writes: Atlas is going to do the O scale reefer in HO. I checked the Atlas O scale page to see just what reefer they do, and I find two: 36' wood car built 1925 by General American for Cudahy, a

In "Pere Marquette Revenue Freight Cars" there's a photo of a 1958 cu. ft. covered hopper in a nice new coat of PM paint at the B&O Museum. You can see where it was hammered hundreds (thousands?) of t

I never would have believed there would be a good plastic model of a C&O wood caboose (Walthers.) I had decided six months ago that between Gloor Craft and Overland, I had all I needed, so I'd rather

Vanishing Vistas postcard JT-2466 shows an ACL 2-10-2 in 1946, going by the rear end of another train. You can see half of L&N 10192, which has a 7/7 "cavitated" end. (The corrugated "ribs" go in rath

Where can I find a photo of an L&N USRA composite gon as lettered in the late 40s/ early 50s? Obviously there would have been sparser data stenciling compared to the "as-delivered" version Intermounta

During what years did EJ&E apply the orange/green billboard scheme to box cars? I got to wondering when I was watching a show on public TV about the depression of the 1930s-- and I'm pretty sure the f

One problem with Bowser's decorated F30a is the color. That can be hidden with weathering. The other problem is that some or all of the lettering is too low-- so the splits in the word PENNSYLVANIA do

I suggested to Bernie Kempinski of Alkem that a good item for photoetching might be the brackets which were under a lot of C&O cabooses (sometimes holding rerailers, but often empty.) It would be some

I'm looking for diagrams re loading cylindrical tanks on flat cars. I have three Walthers tanks ranging from 6x18 to 9x38. Scott Pitzer

Richard Hendrickson's December 2001 RMJ article on PM, C&O, Erie etc. box cars based on the ARA design seemed to have been cut off by the editor. There was no TEXT about modeling any of the cars, or m

Martin has some pretty specific chalk mark sets. I assume "Washington DC 1948" is based on the Charles Wales photos. But if one of the cars recorded there was a MoPac 1932 AAR-design car, the chalk ma

As I recall the Champ sets look better than the similar Sunshine items in that the lettering styles are more appropriate. After the years of making reweigh stuff from the letters which could be harves