I often hear, on this list, about modelers who have a lot of unbuilt car kits awaiting assembly. I recently heard a term for unbuilt car kits. “Boxes of Shame” Paul Catapano Winchester, VA.

Where four wheeled Bobbers “outlawed”, outlawed from interchange, or was there a series of different laws and regulations beginning and ending at political boundaries? Paul Catapano Winchester, VA.

Tony, Are you saying that that is a “Stock” PFE Express Reefer? I have to take your word as I wouldn’t know one if it walked up and bit me. Paul Catapano Winchester, VA.

I found a surplus hardware store in Burbank, Ca. (Joe Factor Hardware now Luky’s Hardware) that sold assorted 2-56 screws for $1 a POUND (Know how many 2-56 x 3/16 pan head screws are in a pound? A wh

I'm building a Train room with a house for my Wife over it. Paul Catapano Winchester, VA

I tell them that what I do in my hobby is on the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe. Paul Catapano Winchester, Va.

I and a friend, on his layout, model heater service using waybills (we call these "Action Bills") as well as ventilator service, but I do not specifically model the heaters themselves. Paul Catapano

The large white "X" denoted highly explosive ammunition was loaded or to be loaded in these cars, this also made it much easier for saboteurs and 5th columnists to hit the bulls eye with a rifle or gu

The only pictures I have seen (which isn't saying much) of heaters being inserted into Reefer bunkers show the car-man lowering the heater on the end of the same "hook" he used to maneuver and chop ic

Tony says 24 hours. I heard 250 miles (roughly). Figuring average speed of a freight train in 1940 was 11 MPH... Paul Catapano

The entire set is sold. Thank you for looking Paul Catapano

I have a set of 24 RP CYC's for sale. Vol's 1 through 24 I am offering them as a SET ONLY. $480 plus postage. Reply OFF LIST* Paul Catapano *Replies ON-LIST will be disregarded. Virus-free. www.avg.co

Tony, Not "Really?" but Really?!*, can't you hear the way I'm saying it? As with a traffic cop's being deemed experts on traffic at court, I am willing to stipulate that You are the expert of PFE reef

Tony, You wrote: Um, no. Non-produce was about 15 percent of PFE's total traffic Really? You are most likely right, but I seem to recall somewhere, of course I can't remember where, that produce reefe

The file is posted to our files section. It is 125 pages long, but the commodities are listed starting on page 12. It also lists those items PROHIBITED from being transported in SFRD reefers. It is li

I hope this goes through. It is 125 pages long. Paul Catapano [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

EVERYTHING I've been told says that meat reefers were not used to haul anything but meat. There was too much risk of contamination, among other things. All the stories of produce reefers back-hauling

I have insured my collection. My company is State Farm. My basic home owners policy will NOT cover my collection. I discussed my hobby AT LENGTH with my agent. I brought him into the layout room. So o

I built my last booth out of 3/4 plywood and a squirrel cage fan I got from Granger. I built a small channel or bracket(For lack of a better term) over the fan outlet for an A/C filter. I had to vacuu

I'm sure there are many examples of tank car deliveries direct to individual service stations. Is this, as a percentage of the total service stations in business, a common practice? Paul Catapano