Did anyone acquire Stan's patterns and masters? He had some really unique stuff. Yours Aye, Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge 🦆

Fred and friends, What I said, or intended to say, was that WP 8051-8055 were the last of the ex-15001 cars in general service, and that they were gone before 1949. The renumbered 26001-series was ass

Friends, While I am loath to argue with Tony about this, I find no evidence or mention of roof replacements to the WP 15001-series boxcars. I have copies of several of the general arrangement diagrams

Andy, I tried to order these castings from you. You had already decided to end production and sent my check back. I later managed to pick up both sets of castings on the used market. Someday I will ge

Mel, O.K., but the top edge of the upper wale right above the end lettering does not register well in the photo, giving the impression that the wale is continuous onto the flat section below the roof

Bob and Friends, No idea who built SLG&W 108, but the car is rather unusual. The upper end panel is a reverse/indented/innie/whatever stamping, while the lower panel is a typical Dreadnaught "outie".

Bill, WP-owned PFE 50001-52000 had Hutchins roofs when new, but were all supposedly otherwise R-30-13 design. [There may, or may not, have been up to 200 cars that had R-30-12 underframes, but there i

Bob, There originally were 2,775 WP/PFE refrigerators. The original group of 2,000 were ordered by WP in 1923, just before they joined the PFE. In order to match the proportion of WP's contribution to

Al and Brian, The builder's photos of 78500 (side and A-end) are on page 44 of Ed Hawkins' article "1937 AAR Boxcars built by ACF" in the July 1991 RAILMODEL JOURNAL. Ed said there was no chip availab

Nelson, I appreciate your frustration, but surely you weather your cars? After several years of service, no two PFE reefers would have perfectly matched. Weathering can hide a host of sins. Yours Aye,

Bob, The old Front Range cars all had separate diagonal panel roofs. I've dropped Des Plaines, Red Caboose and Intermountain PS-1 roofs onto the FR bodies for a near perfect (after replacing the ends)

Friends, Note the interesting cradle, possibly specific to this particular model gun. I would suggest the cradle went back on the same flat car pair for reuse to where the gun was proofed and stored.

On 11 November Dennis Storzek wrote, in part: "Aluminium is a favorite for CNC machining of cavities because it cuts easy and doesn't break small cutters. The old Front Range line was completely alumi

Doug, From your photo, it looks like this car originally had 5-5-5 ends, which suggest the base was a USRA boxcar. If so, easy-peasy. You have lots of choices. FWIIW, RMC had plans for a similar car m

Sean, There is a 1961 color photo on page 64 of CLASSIC FREIGHT CARS, THE SERIES, VOL. 1 by John Henderson. In case you don't have this book, or can't find same, I will describe. The car has fairly si

Lester, Curious about what happened to MINX 1040? See my Groups IO photo album at https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/album?id=45161 . Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Uh, Fred, Since you model the early 1950s, if you want NIPX 8 and want it to be accurate, you might check some ORERs to see when this car (and this reporting mark) went out of service. NIPX does not a

While I generally try to stick with reality, my current layout is freelanced, but set in possible reality. The Virginia Midland serves Madison, Virginia, and some of its industries are based on real b

Friends, Some of the Delano photos taken of the CNW yard in Chicago show this sort of track, and even a few of the hand-pushed narrow guage cars. Yours Aye, Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge 🦆

Tim and Friends, Add WP to your list. By 1940 some of their double-sheathed boxcars from series 16001-18500 were renumbered to series 26001-26125 and were assigned to bulk plaster service out of Gerla