Perhaps it could be called the "Stamp Collector Syndrome", as in the desire not to collect a quantity of the typical, but a menagerie of the unusual. Tom Casey -----Original Message-----

Saw that last night, well worth the time to watch. You sure have packed a lot of operation in a not so big space. Tom Casey

Jon, If I'm not mistaken, you could plausibly have a Bohn ventilator car in ice service for that time frame. There is a chart in the SFRD reefer book that graphically shows the range of in service pop

A quick look at the Sunshine flyers page shows that this would be one of the 368 out of 1,535 USRA rebuit 40' box cars in the Bx36 class, so, the first three numbers would be 148000 through 149000's.

Bern, Being a Santa Fe prototype modeler, I'm used to manufacturers painting distinctly non Santa Fe equipment in various Santa Fe schemes. Light blue stock cars, and "big circle" heralds on 36' truss

I think the operative phrase was one Richard Hendrickson used often: "Train set Bozos" will buy them. No doubt someday there will be a YouTube video with someone having an entire unit train of poultry

It would be nice if the PDS sheets that came in the Sunshine kits could be offered up for some amount. They had a wealth of information on those cars he offered kits for. Tom Casey -----Original Messa

John. Looks like you've got it! The other cars that are interesting are those having ends made from Murphy gondola ends mounted vertically. Tom Casey

Bill, The two SFRD Rr-19's with flat plate steel ends were made with two steel sheets and joined with a single horizontal seam. Also, those had AJAX hand brakes and the end reporting marks would be "S

You can faintly make out the reporting marks as ATSF Tom Casey

Tim, Nice find! There's a lot of photos of Santa Fe Caswell gons being cut up. It's interesting that they have had the wood striped out and are being cut up upside down. Striping the wood out first is

Nelson, The way the Sunshine kits were packaged, they would contain only the one roof per kit, so there would be no second roof to trade. Tom Casey -----Original Message-----

Santa Fe 32001 was a one-of-a-kind trial build for an early ARA standard boxcar, Pennsy's entry became the X-29's. It was later classified as class Bx-21, and lasted until 1949. The design proceeded t

The two main spotting features for a true Santa Fe ice cooled reefer is the 5' wide swing doors (non-plug door rebuilds) and the "reverse opening" ice hatches (before some were modified for mechanical

A razor saw works the same way, but you need to brace the thicker sprue to cause breakage of the smaller part. It's a handy way to separate extremely thin molded ladders from their runners. Tom Casey

Hear, hear, ditto that! I realize that the supply chain in this hobby is geared towards low volume and one-off production runs, and that is particularly true for smaller resin kit enterprises where de

Nice pictures! I noticed that URTX 2050 has indented dreadnaught ends for the top half, regular (outward) ribs on the bottom half. Was that standard for the group or a one-of-a-kind? Tom Casey.

Andy, You best bet is to take a flight at a non popular flight time, and be willing to forego non-stop flights. Tom Casey

You could consider XM's that had been reassigned to MOW duty. To make it clear the car is in MOW may require repainting, a change in reporting marks or class markings. Some road didn't completely repa

And then there is that Duyea U/F, and beefy looking crossbearers (thinker & wider flanges than usual. Tom Casey