Tim, Red Caboose must have made more significant changes to the tooling. The Front Range 8’ door car had somewhat narrower panel sizes than the Red Caboose version of the car, so the Front Range cars

Bill told me that the economic hit the on-the-ropes Red Caboose got was from the money spent upgrading the former Front Range 40' box cars. The sales were way below expectations and I would wager that

Yep. As Andy says we've discussed the McKean (now Accurail) car many times. The easiest one to model closely (without major mods to the roof) is the 3000-3499 series. This Jim Parker shot is one of my

Bruce mentioned a train of boxcars with a stairstep effect and here is one on the SP&S: https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/uploads/r/oregon-historical-society-library/8/9/6/896c6ee657dcd3bd829bcbb6298

North Western Refrigerator Line refrigerator car NWX 793, this car was originally built in March 1927 and was rebuilt by Pacific Car & Foundry in March 1955. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collect

Milwaukee Road Automobile Box Car CMSTP&P 594446, built by Pacific Car & Foundry August 1929. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection. Rich Wilkens

Milwaukee Road Box Car CMSTP&P 715394, built by Pacific Car & Foundry September 1928. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection. Rich Wilkens

Water Testing Boxcars At MDT Rochester Shops Photos courtesy of East Rochester Historical Society: http://www.erhistory.com/images/collection/125_CARSHOPS/330.jpg http://www.erhistory.com/images/colle

One last photo from the Bangor & Aroostook, refrigerator car BAR 8000, built April 1955. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection. Richard Wilkens

The recent posts on the sale of resin kits has prompted a few random.thoughts. I fondly remember the Feeding Frenzy that occurred when Martin opened the doors to his sales room at the Naperville meets

Photo: PRR Boxcar 570062 (1941) Photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/item/2017820462/ Photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Good view of “B” end. I’m sure the P

Pacific Car & Foundry built Bangor & Aroostook refrigerator car BAR 7471, built March 1952. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection. Richard Wilkens

I picked up a couple of these cars a long time ago. Now I am wondering are they even close to being accurate? Thanks Jim Pattison

https://elgincarshops.blogspot.com/2022/07/ready-for-st-louis-rpm.html -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

Hi guys, I just acquired a Sunshine kit for a CRP XM-4, but it was for the Superior door version. I want to make this car the Youngstown door version as there were more than twice as many. Does anyone

Photo: ACL Automobile Boxcar 51951 (1942) Photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8c24430/ Scroll to enlarge. Description (Is Incorrect): “Los Angeles County, California.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/circa-1945-view-of-an-illinois-central-freight-train-sitting-in-the-picture-id3244756?s=2048x2048 Dave Nelson

2nd send: BACK in 2017 I sent this message. It may be of some help today. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA Hello- Two years ago I was inspired from a post by Bill Welch. I answered with a short description of th

Jim in the PNW Too bad this isn't the MFCL where Dick Dawson probably could explain the technical differences between different door designs. You may be correct about the "different times" since I ima

Group, I know various drilling methods have been discussed before, however, I have not found recommendations for the actual drill bits themselves. I like to hand drill for grab irons, etc. and will co