Very nice build, Lester, and a terrific description and illustration of how you went about it. Well worth reading for any modeler! Tony Thompson tony@...

As usual, you ignore my point. The car exists to carry cargo. It does so in its compartments. Yes, Tim, OF COURSE it had domes (back in the day). Guess what, it had trucks, couplers., underframe, all

Not sure I get your point. If we are interested in what freight cars DO, then the compartments matter, and the domes don’t. If you are just a car-spotter or collector of train models, I guess the numb

Depends if you’re engineering-oriented or a model railroader. Tony Thompson tony@...

I have Richard Hendfrickson’s notes about this Red Caboose model, and he mentions these two railroads, in agreement with Tim. I have myself lettered two of them for these roads. Tony Thompson tony@sig

These kinds of rebuilt tank cars to get more compartments were very common in the wine-car fleet, though this particular car does not look like one of them. Tony Thompson tony@...

The individual responsible for this was the Car Distributor, who sent empties for loading. He was well aware of the Car Service Rules, but even more aware of “Rule Zero,” the “Boss Rule,” that your fi

I am sure the notation on the glue bottle refers to the glue in that liquid form. It certainly does not refer to the glue when polymerized and set as an adhesive. I have had some challenging material

Bruce Smith wrote: Like many states, California outlawed bobbers early in the 20th century, and SP quickly complied. In the early 1960s, for another example, the state Public Utilities Commission (des

Canopy glue! I use it all the time for paper onto models. Tony Thompson tony@...

Two points. First, the banner would not have been allowed in transit, so was obviously applied in place, to publicize the sale. Second, there is no reason to believe the reefer shown necessarily broug

The comment on this topic, made in passing, about obsolescence of storage media, is far from trivial. Museums and libraries which began to store information on various kinds of disks had to transfer t

I think you are misinterpreting the edges of the brake shoes, Nelson. These aren’t Andrews. Tony Thompson tony@...

Yes. Tony Thompson

Awfully nice Class A-50-4, Charlie. I like it a lot. Tony Thompson tony@...

I have found canopy glue to be really excellent for dissimilar materials — plastic to wood, metal to plastic, in fact any combinations of hard and porous surfaces. Despite what some say, it is most ce

These kinds of painted assignment legends were usually near the door on the left. One SP employee told me that sometimes they were even taken into account in car movements <g> Many sorts of cars that

Um, Hubert, the SP part of that book is by me. Dick wrote the PFE part only. Tony Thompson tony@...

Tim O'Connor wrote: Good photo, Tim, thanks! But this is the mid-1950s lettering, not the 1950 scheme when the car was built, so presumably a repaint. Do we know how they were ORIGINALLY painted? Tony

I know that NYC orders of PS-1 box cars circa 1951 were painted with black ends (such as cars 170500–171499). Is that true also for the earlier PS-1 cars they ordered, such as 167000–167999, built in