Black ends surviving the first repainting seems pretty uncommon among C&O and Pere Marquette boxcars, from most photos I've seen, and recollections of friends who frequented yards in the '40s and '50s

I am finding the bit of "scope creep" that was added to the first release last night, the CGW, L&N and PM/C&O auto boxcars, to be very welcome. See https://www.prototypejunction.com/2020/01/project-1-

Here's an earlier version of a water tube boiler on a flat car, from Saginaw, Michigan in 1895. The Flint & Pere Marquette was one of the predecessors to the Pere Marquette, which owned the second fla

Thanks guys! I've ordered a few sets. -Fritz Milhaupt Pere Marquette Historical Society

Bill- That's really nice work. I'm very much looking forward to seeing how you continue with this- I need to build a number of these cars in their earlier Pere Marquette and Manistee & North Eastern p

I'm very interested in these ends-- I've wanted to model a number of the Pere Marquette's 85000-series boxcars, but have put that off for lack of ends. These cars had an interesting history, having be

If anyone ever makes the PM style of these ends, I'm in for at least a dozen sets, since the PM had a thousand cars equipped with them, in the 85000-85999 series. Built as auto cars, they were convert

Since the BLI 6K tank cars have hit the streets, I'm curious to hear the reaction from anybody who bought the Hooker Chemical four-pack. I came across a set at a hobby shop yesterday. At first I thoug

While talking with Lee English at teh Bowser booth at Trainfest yesterday, we got to the subject of him running the F30 flat car as an early Trailer Train model. While he was interested, he said that

On a related note, what size wire or pin are the etched-through holes sized to fit? -Fritz Milhaupt http://pmhistsoc.org

>---In STMFC@..., <timboconnor@...> wrote : > Microscale used to (and probably still does) do custom printing, but you > need to order a bunch of sets. > > And Kadee printed two or three d

I note that on the Resin Car Works site, they mention that Rail Graphics prints the decals for them. Several others I know of have Rail Graphics print theirs as well. This raises the question in my mi

Ray Breyer wrote: > As for Vulcan or Hutchins ends, they're no longer a problem to do, IF you know how to properly use 3D > technology (and it's limitations). > http://www.shapeways.com/model/753488/v

The C&O definitely inherited PM 85000-85999 and 86000-87499 -series cars. Per the Million and Paton book, they were used until 1957. Some had been renumbered into the 54000-, 55000- and 69000- series,

From a Chuck Geletzke article, one role they had was to carry condensed milk from the Carnation plant in Sheriden, Michigan on the Trunk's "Turkey Trail". A couple of cars a day was not unusual up int

Hopefully they will do a better job of setting the gauge on the code 88 wheelsets than they did on their eight-hatch reefers: I've averaged about 50% of the wheelsets being badly out of gauge on over

Well, there's the problem- I have yet to see a photo of an actual PM reefer in the more modern paint and lettering scheme from the 1930 diagram. The few photos I've seen of PM reefers all show them in

Actually, the Accurail PM car's paint job matches the second lettering scheme they wore. As built, they were delivered in one of the PM's pre-1930 schemes for house cars, as shown at http://www.fritzm

Yes, Pierre has the story of these cars right. These were the "most distinctively-PM" freight cars on the PM in Canada (88000-88349) and the US (88350-89349). I addition to the Speedwitch kit for the

This car was one of the ones I'd always meant to ask Arnt Gerritsen about, since he did most of the drafting work for Overland Models back then. Sadly, he passed away in March of this year. -Fritz Mil