The trucks look sort of "hokie" on my BLI HOKX Tank car. What were the trucks actually supplied on the prototype? Maybe what's on the car is the best we will get but the selection of new trucks from T

Thanks to everyone for the most helpful info on the GN 12 panels boxcars and the UP Trix ACR B 50-27. Further on the UP B-50-27 and the excellent photo taken at DUT. The car seems to still have wood r

I'm finishing my up grade on these two cars and need a little help with some details and colors. The GN 12 panel car is Vermillion and the UP car is BCR. The IRM recently painted their GN PS-3 hopper

Anybody have the E Mail address for Jim Eager, Toronto, Jim is a great inter modal expert from ins inception. Bill McCoy, Jax

Hi Steffan, Thanks. Did the mineral red trucks, running board and under body apply on both the Empire Builder and later billboard Great Northern lettering schemes? Thanks for your help. Bill McCoy

I have a project that has a need for joining .012 wire in a "T". some time back there were plastic pipe joints but I can't remember who made them. MY LHS thinks it was Utah Pacific but there's nothing

Thanks Todd, I haven't built cars in years and forgot the great resources this group has. I've never tried Google Images but am headed there now. Bill

I picked up an old IMRC GN 12 panel boxcar kit (GN 18837, reweigh F-10-60). Some of the parts are pretty dated. There were no instructions and I have a few questions. What hand brake was used on these

Thanks Mike. Bill McCoy

I'm looking for a copy of Greg Martin's RS-3 presentation at Cocoa this year. My notes seem to have disappeared along with Greg's Email address. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Bill McCoy

Richard, You are correct. The junction was Whittier not Anchorage. When we got short-hauled on this business via Cincinnati in the Haliburton cars they used CN Aqua Train via Prince Rupert, BC. Bill M

This traffic all moved prepaid but establishing a joint line commodity rate to cover this would have been no problem and the origin carried would have done all the work. This apparently came through t

They were routed via SCL- Atlanta -.L&N-Chicago - BN - Seattle - Alaska Hydro-train - Anchorage-ARR. Even the ACL's "whopper Hopper" (by then SCL 500000) made one trip. We eventually were short-hauled

While I was a Sales Rep for SCL in the early 70’s in Miami there was a severe Portland cement shortage. We handled 5 and 6 cars of cement from NE PA every week for Maule Industries in Miami. Most had

How did the stripping on the assembled car go? Bill McCoy

I failed to properly clean my airbrush and blew globs on to my recently completed NC&StL 36' boxcar. I've sanded the blobs and repainted the car with Tru Color paint but the finish is not what I want,

When I was a Trainee on the SALin 1966-67 I was assigned to the Charlotte Freight Traffic office disposing of reefersto textile shippers on the SAL was one of my collateral duties. The TCFBTarriffs ha

I accidentally deleted Greg Davis' Email address. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bill McCoy

Is there a source with lot numbers and the railroads the lots went to available for ACF cars? Thanks, Bill McCoy

I'm about finished with mu Sunshine NC&StL 37' RB and need some help. The kit came with a beautiful stryene Miner brake handwheel and mechanism complete with the long release handle on a styrene sprue