I agree Dave. I like the NYC. I plan on getting a 19000 caboose from either the society or AMB down the road. I have a Funaro USRA caboose which probably was painted the same as yours. I agree the sha

Dave, The only one listed is TCP-221 NYC Freight Car Red 1945-1960. I am not sure if this shade deviated much from your time period. I am sure there are others who will provide a more precise match. R

Fantastic shots, Jim Rich Christie

Michael, I agree great shots. A shame they scrapped the PBR sign. Apparently was used for the war effort. The funny part is they dismantled it after the war! I was in Chicago last year for a Free-mo s

Those look great Andy. I am sure they would attract the guys who like to leave a door open with a partial load inside. I know at train shows (when we have them again!) it would be an attention getter.

Another shot of those class LG gons http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/monon/mon3639awb.jpg Rich Christie

Great work Fenton Rich Christie

Ryan Mendell of National Scale Car is working on the M-55s. I believe he is doing a full kit aside from the end castings. I am sure a variety of decals will be coming from other sources. Rich Christie

Sorry guys, not enough coffee here. I totally misunderstood Elden's inquiry. Now I know what he was looking at. I zoomed in on the photo. Great looking modeling subject, Mike. I was correct about the

This is located in Joliet on the Des Plaines river. It is part of the I & M canal. Just west of this photo it enters the canal locks. I used to frequent this area quite a bit, when I lived there. Rich

That roof is interesting to me. It is a very early Viking. Please send me some roof shots before you attach the running board. I want to modify one of my spare flat roofs for a Maine Central X29. Than

Andy, I know Tony Thompson did some cross-bashing with Intermountain and Athearn tankers. I believe he has that info in his blog. Rich Christie

Group, Don't want to get too far off topic. I have a burning question though about this Conoco paint scheme. Champ made a decal set. I have not found any evidence of this scheme. Disregard the model's

No problem. Did you actually find that kit? I had all 4 of those early kits. The resin was really bad. The way he cast roofs makes the roof trash fodder! I gave up on mine when SnT 2014 rolled around

Bill, From what I have read on some of the Rutland sites, including RPI (NEB&W), they were painted Rutland Cherry Red, which is 50% Box Car Red and 50% Caboose Red Rich Christie

Jim, Stan Rydarowicz made kit-conversions of this style, using an Intermountain R-40-23 as a core. As you probably well know Stan passed away several years ago and no one that I know of has his origin

So sorry to hear that. I never met Greg personally, but had communicated with him many times within our mutual groups. He was one of the first to get me interested in the Shake-N-Take group. He was al

Tim, I mentioned to Tim yesterday, that the ends were "W" corner not square and posted a link to Steam Era Freight Cars for the PDF on the modified height cars Rich Christie

No problem, Garth. I model 3 era's in particular, mostly 1955 though Rich Christie

Garth, Those were converted in the 60s for Kaolin clay service. Most of these cars had vents on the ends right below the roof. There were two series' of these particular cars 34000-34124 and 34200-342