Scott, A large group of two-dome, single compartment tank cars were built in the US during WWII for service in Europe. This was done to provide enough dome capacity while allowing the domes to meet cl

Charlie, While multiple dome tank cars are reasonably rare, there’s a clear explanation for this one. It was originally build as a single dome car, and then modified by compartmentalizing it into 3 se

Ed, et. al., Thanks! That pretty much “seal’s the deal”. I happen to have the hobby paint match for SFRD on my bench, a bottle of Poly Scale Maine Central harvest gold. The Branchline car sides just n

Tim, Any idea where and when this photo was taken? The car clearly has a worn NORTH AMERICAN logo, but freshly stenciled NWX 6834 as if it was part of the original series. If I had to guess, I would s

Fenton, That's great! That's exactly the scheme I'm looking for. Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Jack, Thanks for the paint suggestion. The photo of 6858 is the puzzler. If, as you suggest, the cars were painted for a lessee, then why is 6858 painted that way, without markings for the lessee? I g

Scott, For all the other NWX cars, the grey side scheme is perfect for my era (and I have at least one). However, for these specific cars, which are the SnT project car, that scheme is clearly not app

Doug, Nice, but alas, none of these cars represent the scheme I am asking about. The car that I am modeling was built for NWX in 1940 and ultimately transferred to NADX circa 1950 and then leased to H

Folks, I'm finally getting to the Shake-n-Take 2011 project, which was a 40' AC&F build reefer owned by NADX and leased to Hormel. However, that's too late for my time period. These cars were original

Phillip, On the PRR, the loads of manure were not covered. Fresh manure is pretty "wet" anyway and at that time was mixed with wet straw. I doubt that rain would have much impact on either the load we

Steve, I think many of us just breathed a sigh of relief that it is finally being produced and went straight to the pre-order poage! Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Andy, Oh boy... this is gonna hurt my bank account!! Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Bob, The paint scheme is prototypical and was just offered in the latest run of the Rapido General America 37’ reefer. Rapido offered two numbers, 6307, and 6310. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL From:

Bob, I don't think that would be realistic. First, manure needs to be composted before it can be used in gardens. It is too "hot" and full of hay seeds. That's fine to spread on the fields, but a disa

And I might add that these laws, in some states, exempted some uses of bobber style cabooses, allowing their continued use for locals, and yard jobs. As a consequence, the PRR had class ND bobbers on

Paul, Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my post earlier today, but the outlawing of bobber cabin cars has nothing to do with interchange. Indeed it was not regulated by the authorities that typically r

Steve, There is an extensive discussion of the processes involved, but by and large, it was by state legislation, usually with respect to labor law. There is a discussion of the process of creating th

Mel, Why? What would be so interesting about the routing? Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Chris, We've been down this road before. The F&C kit represents BOTH an AC&F type 11 and AAR/ARA type 2. Calling it an AC&F type 11 is FAR more descriptive than calling it an ARA type 2, since every t

I didn't replace the rivets, like Bill did, but I did do a number of upgrades to the F&C kit. I did remove the rivet lines for the fradial courses on the bottom longitudinal course, as well as the bot