Doggone it, John, that’s the weekend of the SPH&TS meeting, to which I already agreed to give a talk. Hate to miss Naperville, but it can’t work this year. Hope for better luck next year. Tony Thompso

My personal view, developed from experience with both traveling models and shipping models to others, is that the first layer should be something like a plastic “sandwich bag,” to sheath the car. In H

Yes, Doug, copies for personal use are explicitly permitted as “fair use” in the copyright law. Tony Thompson

Now life plus 70 years. Tony

Yes. Copyrights are property. Tony Thompson

Bud Rindfleisch wrote: Likely Bx-37. Tony Thompson

That should get enough attention. Tony Thompson tony@...

Not a gray area to me. Reprinting might be legal, but hardly ethical. And it screws somebody. Tony Thompson tony@...

Certainly for their rolling stock, long known among certain hobbyists as “Botchman.” Tony Thompson tony@...

Bob Chaparro wrote: That’s the late Larry Kline at left, me at right, photo by C.J. Riley, during the 1980s. Tony Thompson

NOIBN, Not Otherwise Identified By Name. Common language in tariffs, to mean “all other kinds” of whatever it is. Tony Thompson

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Substantial numbers of mechanical reefers date from the early 1950s, FGE being the pioneer, with SFRD and PFE close behind. But those cars were designed for, and exclusively u

Jim, in fact, you did NOT make your statement about “corporate heads exploding” as being only about NP. As you wrote it, it sounds entirely general. No. I meant that building the elevated track seems

Sorry, Jim, your logic sounds good but is all wet. Lots of reefer operators had “ice service” cars, usually old reefers, used to ship block ice to smaller icing facilities that had no ice-making facil

Tim O'Connor wrote: Sam Clarke told me some time back that they were going to slowly work through the entire line of sprung trucks and eventually replace all of them with the HGC versions. So I guess

Remember that in that era, much damage to a step or grab would send the car to the rip track. So seeing such damage in service should have been rare. Tony Thompson

Nice model, Paul. I remember Richard Hendrickson once said that Maine Central yellow was close to SFRD, but as he so often did, he modified it a little — not giving any proportions, as he did it by ey

Bill Pardie wrote: Nope. Any good art supply store will still have 3M “Scotch” drafting tape, same old dependable stuff, but for fitting into tight corners or bending around curves, the Tamiya is far

PFE’s retired Chief Mechanical Officer told me that a BCR car cement was indeed introduced in the 1950s, but that PFE did not think it worked as well as the standard black. They had painted over it wh

Tim O'Connor wrote: Terry did prepare a second volume, to cover from the end of USRA in 1920 up to Volume 1’s start in 1936. Problem is, practically all the photos are from the UP Museum archives. Ter