Schuyler, Alas, it was a bonfire! Tank cars in the train loaded with alcohol caught fire. See: https://monon.org/bygone_site/monon/mon.html Regards, Mike Aufderheide

All, See page 200 of RPCYC 31& 32, likely just a static test car. Regards, Mike Aufderheide

Regarding Des Plaines Hobbies stock of Rib Side Cars, I would call them to see if they have what you need in stock. The last time I looked (5 weeks ago) they had about 25 kits on the shelf. Regards, M

Ed, I haven't looked through my photos, but there are many in the 1947-9 Monon conductor logs I have. Out of the 537 cars loaded with coal 107 were gons. Of those 107, 27 were Monon cars and the rest

Johannes, Regarding the Monon car, this is the first series of cars delivered in this scheme that i can find. The Monon also had a similar series of hoppers delivered in 1940 numbered 41500-41699. The

Good eyes, Bill, I missed that completely. The car, though, is from an earlier series 17000-18139 built in the 1910s with wood ends, not the 1923 built 8000 series SU clones with steel t-section ends.

Des Plaines Hobbies has a few dozen kits and might have what you need. Mike Aufderheide

Richard, Paul is correct that the Shops was the name of Chad's Monon model business. As a Monon modeler myself, I benefited a great deal from his creativity and I have too many of his kits to count. C

Dave, I uploaded the 2007 catalog to the files area. I think this was pretty close to the time the rolling stock line was sold to Atlas as there are some passenger cars that were announced but not pro

Jim, Besides what you'll need for heralds and railroad specific text, there are a few decal sets meant for the data on a derrick and tender. The first sets are from Tichy: -9010 Black, Roman -9110 Whi

Bill, Thank you for the great link. This photo features a trio of Pennsy hoppers one of which looks like the elusive H27: http://photogrammar.research.yale.edu/photos/service/pnp/fsa/8b36000/8b36300/8

Jim, I was able to download the image by hitting the small down-arrow in the lower right hand corner of the screen. I have heard instances (with the Barriger collection for example) where some viewers

The depth of the member doesn't necessary mean more strength in bending. In other words you can have two girders with different depths, but the same strength. Different strength (thickness or material

---In STMFC@..., <johnsykesiii@...> wrote : According to Westerfield's website, they only have decals for the ACL U-5 dry rock (phosphate) covered hopper. -- John Take a look at their deca

Al, It is not showing up in the first ORER you mention because the build date is 4/47, not 42. These were the Monon's first 50 foot boxcars. As I mentioned, they were renumbered out of the 1200 series

Tom, This car is from Monon series 1200-1299 built in April 1948. They had Murphy diagonal panel roofs. They had two 8ft doors with a clear opening of 15'-10". The Monon Society offers Branchline kits

I see that Frank has his decal line up on his website. See: Resin Car Works Regards, Mike Aufderheide Resin Car Works HO scale resin freight car kits! View on resincarworks.com Preview by Yahoo

FWIW, The roofs on the Monon 1-500 were Murphy rectangular panel. Mike Aufderheide

The Monon cars are from June 1947. They are relatively easy to model with a Branchline car and a chisel blade to get the side rivets off. As an aside, the boys from PS would come and look at the Monon

Matt, Thanks for the great link. Great photos, but very few freight cars. Even the wrecks are passenger trains! The photographer must have been a Passenger Car List guy. Here is what I found searching