Actually, the medallion change was officially made on February 2, 1953 when the corporate name CMStP&P was liftred in favor of the long standing nickname "The Milwaukee Road". New equipment after this

Just received the first custom decorated 5th Avenue Car Shops double door Ribside Car. These were for sale at this weekends joint CB&Q/IC meet at Dubuque, Iowa. Cars look very nice and are available i

In addition to these General American and Pfaudler cars, I believe that General American also built similar styled cars at a nominal 37 ft for meat rail service with Swift one of which appears to late

Ed, These same comments were also posted in the files section under the folder on Milw Rib Side Cars. John Greedy and contrary. [snip]

My understanding when talking with Craig Walker at Athearn is that there is some minor re-tooling of the side sill and revised steps. The WP version is based upon a post 1962 prototype rebuilding with

wrote: --- In Reefer-madness@..., <jgreedy@b...> wrote: The Atlas web site indicates that the car is based upon a Cudahy design, I have discovered a photo of a Cudahy car in the "Cudahy -

I think Ambroid did a wood craftsman kit while E&B Valley produced the flat kit before Eastern Car Works bought the tooling. And yes, Walthers did offer a single air slide. J. Greedy wrote:

The car in question is the original 50 ft rib side auto box in the as- delivered scheme. I don't have my data sheet here in the office but the number series began at 13500. Ambroid produced a craftsma

Then look in the STMFC files section http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/files/Milw%20Ribside%20Boxcar% 20data/ where some of the MILWmodelers fies have also been posted. John Greedy

<schuyler.larrabee@v...> wrote: but are there versions modeled by Try this Yahoo site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MILWmodelers/files/Rib%20Side%20Box% 20Car%20details/ Also, for anyone still intere

The 5th Ave custom decorated "Rib Side Car" are based upon all new artwork taken from actual cars with the reweigh station and data matched to photos and/or Milwaukee Road HCR cards with the 1948 - 19

The referenced photo is interestiing in that the URTX/Erie reefer is lettered in an older style than for a 1950's new car but more interesting to me is that the number series of this car appears to be

The Milwaukee Road rib side box cars had cylinder, reservoir, and valve all on one side of the center sill. Kit-bashing the Rib Side Cars kit (1939040 version) into the later versions is not quite as

As delivered, all the Milwaukee Shops built ribside box cars equipped with Barber S2 trucks. John Greedy 40' be took are

Swift took delivery of 40ft GATC built steel ice reefers built in 1948 that were likely the very first to wear the bright red with large white SWIFT. J. Greedy question. I had always thought that the

wrote: fleet, those cars triangular logo covered .........and I have photos dated 1954 of Milwaukee Road and Swift Refrigerator Line with the GA Triangle logo. In the mid-1960's the logo appears to ch

Now that Atlas has released their new 36 ft meat reefer in HO-scale, I have been hoping to hear some discussion of the prototype and comments on the model. Although the Atlas promotional data indicate

Shawn, I got bumped from my last minute flight to Florida, so I guess it is just you and me! John Greedy (in frozen and snowing Ohio) wrote:

Now that Atlas has released their new 36 ft meat reefer in HO-scale, I have been hoping to hear some discussion of the prototype and comments on the model. Although the Atlas promotional data indicate

The Milwaukee Road's signature ribside box cars were rebuilt and modified beginning in the early 1960's. Several series of cars were then equippped with special load restraining devices such as Evans