Andy, Oh boy... this is gonna hurt my bank account!! Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Bob, The paint scheme is prototypical and was just offered in the latest run of the Rapido General America 37’ reefer. Rapido offered two numbers, 6307, and 6310. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL From:

Bob, I don't think that would be realistic. First, manure needs to be composted before it can be used in gardens. It is too "hot" and full of hay seeds. That's fine to spread on the fields, but a disa

And I might add that these laws, in some states, exempted some uses of bobber style cabooses, allowing their continued use for locals, and yard jobs. As a consequence, the PRR had class ND bobbers on

Paul, Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my post earlier today, but the outlawing of bobber cabin cars has nothing to do with interchange. Indeed it was not regulated by the authorities that typically r

Steve, There is an extensive discussion of the processes involved, but by and large, it was by state legislation, usually with respect to labor law. There is a discussion of the process of creating th

Mel, Why? What would be so interesting about the routing? Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Chris, We've been down this road before. The F&C kit represents BOTH an AC&F type 11 and AAR/ARA type 2. Calling it an AC&F type 11 is FAR more descriptive than calling it an ARA type 2, since every t

I didn't replace the rivets, like Bill did, but I did do a number of upgrades to the F&C kit. I did remove the rivet lines for the fradial courses on the bottom longitudinal course, as well as the bot

Charlie, I assume we're talking HO scale here... In addition to the F&C type 11, which is indeed 8K gallons, Sunset did a "PRR TM8" in brass, which is in fact an AC&F type 11, and indeed, since all of

I haven't looked specifically at the WE boxcars, but Microscale has a nice C&NW boxcar set that covers most classes. I used it for my USRA rebuilt shake n take project. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Dennis, While I do not know if PRR 6866 was ever renumbered, in general, the express X29s stayed in that configuration and with that number until they were retired. It probably comes as no surprise th

Todd, That was a major navy depot and naval barrels were stored there. I beleive that the logic was to keep vital materials away from the coasts so that they would not be targets for carrier airstrilk

Robert, I will add that the Milwaukee Road flats were built specifically for hauling large naval gun barrels. Immediately following their construction, they were leased to the Union Pacific and were p

Tim, Folks, How would reweighs have been handled? Was the car not reweighed because the containers were? Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Brian, Folks, I cannot make out the reweigh date. It looks like it might be 12-37? The car is listed in the 1943 ORER as a Contaitner car, without any special notes on the series. Regards, Bruce Smith

Bob, During early WWII, some containers were converted to use hauling crude oil due to a shortage of tank cars. I'm nto sure that is what these containers are doing though. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn

Folks, From the same collection as the photos Bob has posted http://www.ejearchive.com/index.php?/albums/official-loads/content/co-loads-315/lightbox/ http://www.ejearchive.com/index.php?/albums/offic

Folks, The Summer, 2021 issue (#117) of The Keystone Modeler is now available on the NEW PRRT&HS web site at: https://www.prrths.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=171391&module_id=451730 If you have

Folks, Note the ROS 3-69 reweigh on this F30A, #474194. That I believe is for ROSEVILLE, CA on the SP (and also PFE), reminding us that even in "the future" a proportion of cars were reweighed off-lin