Phil Lee wrote: "According to Sunshine's PDS, the NHIX 900-999 series frozen food reefers were principally routed between Washington state and the Bronx Terminal Market in NYC." Brian Carlson asked:

Eric Thur wrote: "The question is "after WW II, were they still used to haul Automobiles or converted to another service as Auto Parts carriers of General use cars?" Did you check the applicable ORER

Alex Schneider wrote: "The scope of the CASO site is all NYC, notwithstanding the name." ...except as Bruce Smith pointed out, the observation that drove the threadjack you asked about stemmed specifi

Alex Schneider asked: "...the photo was taken in Cincinnati. How would Canada be involved?" Check upthread - there was a minor threadjack (triggered by the presence of a cut of St Louis Refrigerator C

Eric Thur asked: "Would anyone know what year the Western Railway of Alabama acquired USRA Steel Rebuilt Boxcar Series 17700? What year were they painted Oxide Red? Did the Silver cars come later as a

Robert Kirkham asked: I am also curious about a suitable model for the UP car. https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N016_0659_002.jpeg HO scale? Westerfield 7355, B-50-6 40' DS Box Car, Modern,

Dave Wetterstroem asked: "Has anyone made a list of what manufactures have made PS-1 boxcars in HO scale and what attributes each model has?" AFAIK, not recently, and not since additional PS-1 models

Richard Townsend wrote: "What I know of is: Kar-Line (later Cannonball) AHM (later Con-Cor) McKean Intermountain Kadee" Not quite right: Kurtz Kraft (NOT Kar-Line; later Cannonball) AHM (later Model P

Bill Jolitz wrote: "I really want to try this, but I don’t want to ruin a beautiful car." Nobody said that your first attempt has to be on your Rapido model. Plenty of AHM DS boxcars out there to prac

Scott McDonald wrote: "Being in Virginia would those be naval shells? Looks like they have collars on them to help move them around I am guessing?" Philip Dove replied: "I am certain the bomb is a bom

Claus Schlund wrote: "GM&N USRA composite gon https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7018185 No. It's similar, but the giveaway that this is NOT a USRA gon is the Dreadnaught end. Ben Hom

Claus Schlund wrote: Pennsylvania Lines class GP or GPa hopper_1917-1918 https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.archives.gov%2Fid%2F26430742&data=05%7C01%7Csmithbf%4

Phil Lee asked: "Is there anything close in HO?" The old Lindberg (later Mantua/Mantua 'Heavies'/Mantua 'Classic') stockcar will do in a pinch, though that model represents a double deck car and will

On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 02:08:12 PM EDT, WILLIAM PARDIE <pardiew001@...> wrote: While researching potential improvements on some Frisco cars I came across a reference to a Wass - Morto

Bob Chaparro asked: "This is a new one on me. Bees?" Why not? We keep forgetting that the railroads were often the only decent means to ship any cargo over mid-to-long distances, whether via carload,

Fenton wrote: "Westerfield made one. Is it resin or wood?" Look again at the photo. This is clearly a traditional wood craftsman kit, with thick grabs, stamped ladder stock, and printed lettering on t

Drew Bunn asked: "Not to open a can of worms, but could one put a sound decoder in a freight car?" Sure. In fact, Broadway Limited will be happy to sell you mooing and oinking PRR Class K7A stock cars

Bill Michael asked: "I picked up an Intermountain undecorated kit for the PS1 with 7 ft door. What railroads had these cars? I model the FEC in the 1955-60 era if that helps." See Ed Hawkins' outstand

Jim Pattison asked: "...are there any good (accurate) plastic models of 50’ or 40’ double door boxcars (automobile cars) for the PRR and the NYC?" What scale? Ben Hom

Mike Palmieri asked: "...can you provide the link to the page this is on?" Scroll to the bottom of the page: https://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-MODELS-FREIGHT-PAINT.htm Ben Hom _._,_._,_