<snip> Dear Garth, You have committed a serious faux pas. Everyone knows that those fellows at Grandt Line only make parts for that silly narrow gauge stuff and no self-respecting standard gauge freig

I've uploaded a scan to the file area of four different stock cars on the headend of a Southern Rwy. Birmingham Div. train which I believe was headed toward Atlanta. The photo was dated 6/22/46. Any h

Hi Guys, I thought you'd be interested to hear about the old car I found in Anchorage the other day. I'm up here on business--been here for a month--and have had some time to get out and do some railf

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /USRA DS BOXCARS.XLS Uploaded by : bhom3@... Description : USRA D

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I just got two jpegs from Howard Ameling of two more Decker reefers. As many of you know Howard doesn't sell prints anymore just jpegs. The cars are 2532 and 2834. 2824 is a very interesting 'down on

Thanks Dave, Larry and Guy, The only question remaining is, how full were the cars? Clark

Coincidental to Chuck's info, the UP Frt Car Conductors Book that I have lists destinations by a number...such as 0, 2, 4, 5....Watching a March of Times special filmed during the very early 50s...sev

Hi Folks, I have been pondering a querstion about Reefer traffic on the PRR circa 1944 and the discussion here as well as the following comment that Gregg Mahlkov wrote on PRR-talk (which he kindly pe

Yes, MicroScale has a good set for transition era BREX cars and Champ has good sets for FGEX and WFEX. Also, Clover House has nice FGEX and WFEX dry transfer sets. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oreg

Can anyone recommend a good source for something that looks like HO scale silica sand? Thanks in advance. Ted Culotta

I started noticing Pennsy box cars and it appears that their X29 was their first box car with the door sliding to the right. Even their "heater" (ventilated) box car c. 1893 had the main door on the l

Tim O'C. opined: >How about ..... SP rock hoppers. I'm not a post-'60s kinda guy (except age-wise), but those may be available. Bruce's Train Shop in Sacramento has some HO private label resin sand/gr

>Vertical courses. Overland and W&R did some. But I have to concur >with Byron, plastic is the way to go with riveted tank cars. Or resin. I'm finding this thread increasingly frustrating, because if

Seen at the NYS&W engine house in Binghamton, NY: a vintage refrigerator car with reporting marks CACV 24007. This car is a 40-ft ice reefer with plug doors, Dartnaught ends (didn't we agree on a more

There are a couple of very interesting files on the M&StL mailing list at Yahoogroups. One is a list of all cars set out for hotboxes in 1948, 1949, and 1950 -- with identification of the cars and the

Jeff, The museum at union IL west of Chicago has several cars like the one you described. As I remember most are orange and black URTX (Milw?) with regular doors. The only plug door I can remember was

I was looking at some early PRR box cars and it appears that all their box cars prior to their X29's had left-ward opening doors. Can anyone confirm this or does anyone know any exceptions? - John

Tim O'Connor writes: > Just between you and me, I am seriously thinking about commissioning one > or more brass freight car projects. Sounds interesting. (Hey, that start up in 1997 paid off > after a

I'm still having dialogue with Kadee on trying to get the M&StL P-S1 box cars on the market. I or they need slides or photos of the 50ft'ers. It seems the one slide I sent them taken in the late 70's