Nelson, I generally paint my underframes and trucks either burnt umber or raw umber or a mix of the two. It is my observation that freight cars quickly loose the new look even nowadays and I'm sure it

If anyone has a photo they are willing to share of Pere Marquette 10' IH 40' double door XMs in series 91000-91499 or 91850-92349 totaling 769 cars on 1-1-50 I would appreciate it. I am trying to dete

Looked everywhere I could think of for photos of the subject cars - no luck. If anyone has a photo of SOU 17500-178197, 287000-287999, or 315700-315949 series gondolas circa 1940s or 50s that they wou

Folks I've hit a wall. Does anyone want to share photos of Southern's 40' double door double sheathed box cars. In 1949 my ORER shows there were 4647 of them in four number series but I can't find a p

Hey guys, or girls, anyone have photos of D&H 36' box cars? Post war is preferred but any showing the various end upgrades will do nicely. Looking to do a mild upgrade of a pair of Accurail cars and w

Ron, Look up Atlantic Petrolium Co in Wikipedia. Hq in Philadelphia PA later became Atlantic-Richfield, still later Arco, and finally part of Sunoco. Part of Arco was sold to BP. Conoco was Continenta

Ron, I'm guessing but I think advanced age and inadequate cubic and weight capacity doomed these cars. By the late 50s 50 foot box cars were becoming the norm, often with 70 ton capacity, so older car

The attached is a nice table of the X-28s. As you can see there were still almost 3000 still in service in 1958. I worked for the C&nw in the 1970s and saw plenty of PRR cars still in the CK paint sch

Ron, I too have built PRR X-31s from Bowser kits and the results are actually pretty decent. Not contest quality but quite presentible. The hardest part of redetailing these cars is removing the hand

Armand, I'm with you but this is not for casual modelers since it requires a significant amount of research. I have developed a modeling roster for the PRR in the Williamsport PA area circa 1949 using

I agree with your thoughts that there were probably many FGEX and WFEX cars in those trains. Both reporting marks were freely mixed by Fruit Growers and both also still had truss rod cars in service t

In 1950 PRR had "only" 5623 G-22 gons plus another 258 in container service. For modeling purposes simply remove the containers and substitute a load of steel shapes or some sort of crated load. As ha

Brian, I can not supply a photo but according to my 1-1-50 ORER the only all steel 50'6" IL MILW box cars with 15' side doors and full end doors were in number series 15500-15749. There were 249 cars

Its my understanding that reefers moved on mileage rates, not per diem, so when they were empty there was no rush to get them back to where they had come from. That is probably over simplified but I a

Denny et al, try these folks. They should have anyting you need. Drill Bit City: Official Site for Carbide Tools, New carbide drill bit, New carbide drill bits, New " N " GAGE carbide drill bits, New

Paul, Des Plaines Hobbies has Viking roofs as separate parts. Tony Wagner

According to the Reading Modeler site HTb 60000-60599 were built Mar-Aug 1902 by ACF, 60600-60799 May-Sep by Middletown Car Works, and 60800-60999 May-Sep 1902 by Lebanon Manufacturing. 864 cars were

Only 8 cars in this series remained on 1-1-50. I'd also guess that the trucks had been changed by then. Contrast that number of cars to the 1472 USRA cars in the 15000, 16000 and 17000 number series.

My bad it should be 1-1-50 ORER. TW

NJI&I, a subsidiary of the Wabash. poss ibly 3500-3599 1 car in my 1-1-80 ORER. I'd guess its a clone of several thousand WAB cars in various 40000 thru 49000 number series with 11' or 12' doors as bo