Ed Mines wrote: Yes, Tichy. No. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, tony@signat

Dick Harley wrote: Similar data are in my RMC articles from 20-some years ago, and of course in the PFE book. They are also laid out for 1953 (my modeling year) in one of my early blog posts, where I

John Degnan wrote: John, surely you mean X29? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mai

Dave Nelson wrote: I continue to buy and use drafting tape, which I find has plenty of adhesion but doesn't lift previous paint layers. Great stuff. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA

Don Burn wrote: I don't think the private ownership statement is correct. Numerous private owners possessed a handful of cars each in the 1953 ORER, with only two big owners, SHPX having about 900 and

Brian Carlson wrote: Not sure I know the 1950s answer, but at least since the 1920s there have been several grades of scrap, ranging from light scrap to "heavy melting" which is suitable only for elec

Kenneth Montero wrote: I don't think you're right, Kenneth. The 218 green tape in both web pages is polypropylene film tape. I don't see that they are different tapes. They even have the same detailed

Mike is welcome to use the banner head photo we use for Signature Press (we have rights to it). And for Jeff's benefit, it does have PFE cars, if not UP cars. Here is the link: www.signaturepress.com

The train was in or had just left a siding for a meet, according to what was on the slide mount. So I'd say it's the wind. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkele

Rick Aylsworth wrote: And HSS bits are not as brittle as plain carbon bits. That makes a real difference too. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 w

For anyone wishing to get the current (red) shirt, I have a limited supply, unfortunately now only in Medium and Large sizes. You can pre-order if you are going to Naperville/Lisle and I can bring you

Autos were certainly shipped in box cars in the 50s, though in declining percentage thru that decade. Auto racks would reverse that decline after this list's time span. By the 50s it was almost all 50

The STCX mark had been retired by the 50s. Celanese is fine (photo basis). The "58" scheme can be backdated as far back as late '40s. Tony Thompson

Mark Stamm wrote: I was talking about the '58 GATX scheme. By 1943 there were only 7 unrepainted STCX cars, so I would say that only the earliest '40s would be okay, and probably only pre-1940 is real

Mike Aufderheide wrote: Hear, hear. The 6k size is much needed, for many prototypes (you could remove one end dome and add a larger center dome, to represent one of those converted cars), and even mor

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Though broadly correct, I think this summary gives somewhat the wrong impression. If you look at traffic statistics, shipping of completed autos by rail declined sharply aft

Al Brown wrote: There were a very few cars with one big and one small compartment, evidently built that way with equal-size domes. There were also cars with a big center dome and a small side dome, ev

Denny Anspach wrote: Denny, I too felt I could use shelf space otherwise, and bought the DVD (not CD) set of the MR issues. I have found them very good replacements, and have now recycled all my 20th

Doug Harding wrote: We should be a little careful here with terms. "Distillate" can be a general term to denote ANY product distilled from crude oil. Its meaning has varied over time. Today it tends t

Tom Birkett wrote: Yes, a minimum volume of 2 percent of the compartment. Not sure why you say "original purpose . . ." since AFAIK it was the only purpose. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berk