Scott That’s a great looking build excellent workmanship. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Weaver carbon black hopper with three rail trucks and couplers. This car is For Sale($75 plus postage). John

Thank you Tim, that's actually very helpful (or at least provides me a source of plausible deniability). I would suspect that you are correct and the configuration would be very similar to the A-50-6.

So if I got this straight, all the implement loads were outbound from MM and everything else listed was inbound to MM. Is that correct? Chuck Peck That is my assumption. Why would a place manufacturin

those ARE refrigerators ;-) mel perry

Here are the NYC box cars with 5/5 ends. Some others were rebuilt as insulated box cars. The only other ones to receive the Early Bird logo. NYC series 159000-159999 blt 1944 DSI 734-B NYC series 1610

Interesting picture. I know the pickup says ranges but they look like early refrigerators. Scott McDonald

The Cardox cars were ex NYC 40’ boxcars with special inserts and new doors applied; I don’t have the NYC boxcar lot number handy but the ends are 5-5; there’s a photo of CDCX 101 on p 218 of my MDT bo

Thanks, yours look great as well. These were two of the cars I finished for my MMR. They are scratch built. I did two with the same number, one loaded, one empty. Each car has about 500 parts and 1300

In the days of running boards, may have been a warning to brakemen that no running board existed on that car. They were banned on new cars in 1966. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Hi Scott: Great looking car. Was this some kit or a scratch built? I recently finished two GN hog-fuel cars from Portland Car & Foundry kits. They are rather similar, with open tops, but have no exter

I just completed two Great Northern hog fuel cars. Forty foot cars made from old flat cars. AB brakes as well. What I am curious about is that they too had the top of the ends painted white, exactly l

Lots of A-50-6 box cars got AB brakes, and they were mounted in a conventional way as you can see in this photo. The A-50-6's were rebuilt for "hog fuel" (wood chips) and lost their roofs. If any A-50

I have just started building the Speedwitch SP A-50-4 kit and would like to update it with AB brakes. The kit is supplied with K brakes and states that no A-50-4s made it past 1953 as there is no evid

So if I got this straight, all the implement loads were outbound from MM and everything else listed was inbound to MM. Is that correct? Chuck Peck

This was the Hopkins plant. Served by the M&StL on the north side and the Milwaukee on the south side. MM had a “ downtown” plant as well. The Bay window caboose underframes were built there Some wher

I've discovered the M&StL served the Minneapolis Moline plant near the Red Owl warehouse. I thought I might as well put down the products going into the plant while I have the book. After doing the Re

Sam: I'll throw in another vote for an UNDEC kit. I just started two Rock Island 20070-20084 BX cars and didn't realize until this email that I had the wrong car (4100). I'll put that project aside an

Thanks guys, for the kind comments. It is a neat kit and one of new favorite cars. Bill Darnaby

Steve, According to Norfolk and Western Coal Cars, by Andrew Dow, that number series (12000 - 12999) was built by American Car & Foundry in 1922 at a cost of $1,900.00 per car. Jim Brewer