Charlie, I can see the point of your post and feel the pain of Mike's flogged horse, but hopefully the information is useful. It is, afterall....what it is; simply the most numerous cars. If you belie

All, For my base fleet of 200 with roads starting with the letter A, I have ACL and ATSF. For reference you would have to have a 1000 car fleet before adding Ann Arbor (737 cars). Even with this large

All, I’ve been working over the last few months going through Larry Ostrech’s 1950 excel ORER with the goal of finding out which individual box and auto car types are the most numerous. For ease of di

True about Chad, but Mont still has the decals in HO and N. Set 300 1940's Era Freight Lettering. See: http://www.greatdecals.com/Switzer.htm The spiral end is more interesting, but note that the Mono

Bill, If I'm not mistaken, Enterprise hardware is included with the P2k war emergency hoppers. Can anyone confirm this? If not, I'll check when I get home tonight. If they are correct, I have several

Gene, Another car is the Life Like of Canada CP dominion boxcar. I don't know how available these are. Regards, Mike Aufderheide

Tony, I have it in my mind, rightly or wrongly, that the specific railroad is not as important as the specific car. Going through the ORER might be helpful in one regard. Some railroads may not have a

Brian, I model 1947, but the 1950 ORER is a good stand-in. Your 1957 data would be too far out for me. I'm heartened to hear that someone else thought it was a good idea! I'll get going on the counts

Tony, This is good information. I wonder if we are able to put a finer point on it. I had an idea that using Larry Ostrich's 1950 ORER spreadsheet, one could determine specific cars which should be "e

Larry, I'm a member of the STMFC group and have enjoyed your posts on the breakdown of car construction and quantities. I have a printout of a file I believe you posted of the 1950 ORER that I have be

Thank you Al, I will look up the article. I think the addition of the door brackets below with some strip brass would be easy. This will be a fun project. This car is on F&Cs list of $13 bagged kits.

All, See: http://steamfreightcars.com/prototype/catalog/mvcmc/mvcmcp21main.html This interesting photo of a Southern gon in Jeff Koeller's Mt. Vernon catalog led me to wonder if these cars are the sam

Staffan, � The following GN cars from Monon conductors logs from mid 1948 to early 1950.� This information only as far as it concerned the work for that day.� Most final destinations are unknown.� I h

Jim, Al Westerfield has a SU boxcar for the A&D kit # 4151. Decals can be ordered separately. Regards, Mike Aufderheide

FWIW, At the 2004 Monon Society convention, ex-carman Bob Schultz displayed an O scale model of Monon car 7032 that he had scratch built. This specific car was significant to Bob because as a rip trac

All, I have posted a PDF of a flyer from F&C enclosed with and order I received last May. I have been getting flyers via my SASEs and noticed that the bagged kit list does not change much at all from

All: Clark Propst posted a pdf of Stan Rydarowicz's parts list in the STMFC files area. See: http://tinyurl.com/5urnzb Regards, Mike Aufderheide [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

A two tank car like that shown in the Wikipedia image is in the collection at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Regards, Mike Aufderheide

Bob,   The underframe is not original to the car.  The body was used as storage inside a barn since the late '40s and placed on this underframe when it was brought to the museum.  There