Tim, Thanks. I will keep my eyes open for the correct ones when visiting hobby shops. They apparantly have done the red cars both ways. The kit I have is RC-7014-4 and, unfortunately, it is done on th

Quick Question. Do the LNE cars use the X-29 body or were they built to the ARA design? Two photos in "The Lehigh and New England Railroad" by Douglas Lilly (p 62 and 115)showing 8367 (flat end) and 8

One isolated steam era example. On November 28, 1950 a carload of trees was shipped from Lincoln, ME to Unionbury NJ in NYC 164513. The car arrived at Unionbury on the RV on December 4. The routing wa

Beehive ovens were still in operation at Shoaf, Pa in February 1970. Shoaf is located south of Uniontown on a B&O branch which connected to B&O's Connellsville to Fairmont line at Smithfield. I came a

Has Kadee done the cars in the pre speed lettering Reading lettering yet? They did the speed lettering scheme but I have not seen the earlier version. The earlier lettering was shown in the RPC articl

in addition to the Duryea underframe, the B&O cars in classes N-35A, N-41 and (I think) N-44 had Z shaped end braces which were placed closer together on the end than the end braces on the Kadee car.

Bruce, The B&O lettering matches the builders photos of 8400. The "B&O" and car number may be just a tiny bit small but nobody will notice unless they are holding the car next to the photo. The wooden

Jack, Do you have any data showing which cars arrived loaded and which were supplied by ATSF or SP for lumber loading? John King monthly?). obvious payments. tabulated twice have is cars on cars from

Jeff, Jim, M-53 and subclasses had the Duryea underframes. M-15K used the original underframe from the cars they were rebult from. In 1955 and 1956, they were again rebuilt with new underframes (or at

I don't think we can draw too many conclusions on car distrubution based on the list of cars in the Charles Collection other than to marvel at the variety of cars which stopped in Harrisburg. The sele

Bruce, One caution. For those Pro-Custom/F&C wagontops. Suggest you either use the Sunshine decals or piece together as much as possible of the lettering from the Speedwitch M-26 decals. The decals in

The discussions on this list should serve two purposes: accurate and complete (so far as is possible) knowledge of the prototype freight car fleet and how to accurately model them. Determining as best

Brian, A circular requiring the painting of 1500 cars with the "Sentinel Service Dependability" slogan was issued on October 1, 1958. The same circular directed that the 100 or so cars painted in the

I was looking at a recent model railroad publication on building a propane dealership and it said that the liquid propane was unloaded by pumping air in the tank car to force the liquid propane out. I

I just posted two new files. Both are excel files of Southern Conductor's books copied by Tim Gilbert. I thought these had been posted years ago but a check in the files and Tim's old messages could n

I know this does not answer Al's question. The rule cited below in John Hile's message apparantly lasted through our era. The 1972 Uniform Freight Classification still had virtually the same rule (the

A neighbor purchased a diesel Farmall "M" (like the Sunshine kit) in 1948 but that was quite unusual. Allis Chalmers did not indroduce a diesel farm tractor until 1953 or 54. In Maryland, the same dis

I grew up forking and shoveling "chips". But there is no way on earth I am getting into another color discussion!!! I once saw a UP stock car which had come into Germantown Md on the B&O with a load o

Interesting discussion on old Kodak films. Unfortunately, no one had even dreamed of Photoshop back in 1978 (or the room sized computer you would have needed to run it back than) when I had access to

About 30 years ago, the late Leonard Rice allowed me to borrow and copy many of his color slides. The dates on these ranged from 1939 to the 1950's. As expected, the Ecktachromes were extremely faded