Group is there a published roster of 5/5 ended 50’ 10’ IH both single door and double door boxes with and with out end doors that can be modeled with the Proto 2000/Walthers boxes? The reason I’m aski

Bud, there is one photo of a logoed ERDX reefer in the collection of the New York Central System Historical Society online photo archive. https://nycshs.omeka.net/items/show/97438 Plus another at I ha

Brad, do you have a specific lot you are looking for? As built or repainted? As built most NYC 1940’s steel boxcars were oxide ends, roof and body. Later repainted some had black ends and roofs. Later

Group, if one or a couple of you could look some total numbers for a small handful of car series. I’m looking for a couple ORER’s from 1930 to 1950. if you have an ORER between 1930 and 1950 contact m

Builders photos of both series of cars are on the New York Central System Historical Society online photo archive. Lower res photos are free, higher resolution scans only cost a couple of dollars. Lot

Gary, you didn’t say what type of shingles you are looking for? Shake? Three tab asphalt? Diamond? I’m getting ready to lay down some gray three tab from Minuteman Scale Models on an interlocking towe

Group, I just picked up a Central Hobby/West Shore Line/F&C B&O H34 wagon top covered hopper kit. Would someone have the instructions that they could scan and sent to me? Also is there any published p

Soon is the key word. I’ve been trying to arrange the sides in a multiple side print so that would make an economical point price for the kit. Progress is slow and other projects have jumped ahead, bu

Alex, I too have a Quality Craft C&O/NYC Greenville Well Hole kit. 1977 Prestige wood and metal kit. 10 were built for the C&O in 1948 then two were sold to the NYC in 1950 becoming the lot 808-F. The

With my Jerry Hamsmith CB&Q FM-11 flat car kit ready to hit the paint shop, a pair of Multiscale Digital Kewanee Boilers on the way, Charlie’s placard PDF, in hand, a question. What was the background

While I can’t comment on the built date for the prototype that Walthers chose to base their model on. However the New York Central built their first 4-truck “transformer” car in 1949. These 58’4” cars

The 1” white stripes (or black for gray cars) on top of and below of the reporting marks started about 1933 and went to about 1959. For about a year into 1960, a single line was applied between the NY

Bob, this photo is shot at Illinois Central/New York Central’s South Water street terminal on Chicago. Yes those curving tracks were team tracks. The Chicago River is just off frame to the right, whil

NYC 92075 is a member of NYC lot 693-B, one of 100 cars numbered 92000-92099 built by Dispatch Shops (East Rochester, NY) in 1941. Builders photos can be found on the New York Central Historical Socie

The NJI&I being a local road to me, and a potential modeling interest, I can shed a little addition insight to the traffic. The agriculture implements were likely out of Oliver Farm Implements, earlie

Group, in modeling a gon with drop ends. The builders component sheet says that some cars had Klasing 5L-700 and the remaining cars had Universal 1995 hand brakes. Photos of of both of them show a rat

Group sorry for the cross group post but there is revenant content between the two groups. I posted a number of General American builders photos from the 1940’s and 1950’s that were given to me from a

Tim wrote “ Later NYC cars had a yellow circle with a black "A" - is that basically the same thing?” Yes, a clean loading only car. Not necessarily grain loading only as many 50’ both single and doubl

Doug, from CanadaSouthern.com notes on NYC painting and lettering notes “A STAR under the oval herald indicates car used in grain service as per note #2 in drawing book J-56487” I have a copy of the d

Craig wrote:” a 'front end' caboose was required by Indiana state law for trains longer than 65 cars.” Not exactly, Indiana’s full crew law stated ”It shall be unlawful for any carrier to operate a fr