she seems to be enjoying herself, too boot ☺ mel perry

small brass shapes was bought out by amazon, years ago mel perry

check out cm3models on epay, they are an english hobby store, that has rather a large inventory of small brass shapes :-)

would have loved to seen the routing on this one ;-) mel perry

jim: amen, been there twice, PITA ,-( mel perry

"reposted as requested"

interesting, is the color change due to light exposure? or chemical deterioration? mel perry

hi ken; MANY THANKS ;-) mel perry

wow, whose 44 tonner, hate flckr, ;-) mel perry

the only place yo find this copy is epay or rrtreasures, the current owners thrashed everything that carstens produced ;-( mel perry

there was a multi part article in RMJ, in its early days, re the ACF/NAHX series apparently this particlar batch of cars were specially painted for the actual lesee's mel perry

especially atsf in louisianna? at a sugar plant or refinery? ;-) mel perry

new years eve (VBG) mel perry

i was wondering where the rest of the 180 car train was at? ;-) mel perry

hi garth: i'm going to go out on a limb, (the saw is already working), and due to the distorted pixelization, goingbto say this is an earlier car, the left side, i believe reads hill brothers r.r. can

john: are you fimilar with the.HJH boxcars/reefes? were they 34 or 36 footers? and did the two paint schemes have anything to do with their size? were plans/drawings of these ever published thanks ;-)

has to be, the roof walk end supports on both ends are damaged, as well as the two end steps on the "b" end, looks like both were squeezed and bent outward beyond the car evenlope, definitely a damage

is that an updide down pullman standard ladder?

there was also a web site dedicated to the boxcar/reefer of HJH, but that has long since disappeared mel perry

that looks likeba rivet overlay seam ;-) mel perry