Bump... Anyone? The car

We don't know

... But the people at this site most probably can help.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MFCL/?yguid=265648908

Considering it's only letters

Considering it's only letters and numbers needed on the Gondola try Dry transfer Letters & Numbers in HO scale or N or what ever your modeling of corse this would be a last ditch effort in case you can't find what you need.

Never occurred to use MFCL,

And for the newbies

And for the newbies, what is MFCL?

MFCL

Modern Freight Car List

There are two good sites.

MFCL equals Modern Freight Car List.  It is a Yahoo group blog.  It covers freight cars from 1960 on.

Additionally, there is STMFC, Steam Era Freight Car Discussion Group.  This one is more useful to me as it covers up to 1960.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MFCL/?yguid=265648908

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/?yguid=265648908

These guys know their stuff.  For instance, Anthony Thompson regularly posts at both sites.

I see...

Well that's all cleared that up...or not.  I was actually able to figure out what MFCL stood for all by myself.  So what's the point of the list exactly?

Edit:  Thanks for elaborating a bit Mark.  I still wonder why we need a list though.  Please forgive my newb ignorance.

Just visit

Visit the sites.

Yeah that helped...

OK, so these are places where one can go to discuss freight cars.  Seem like we can do that here without the need for another forum or blog.  I must be missing something.

Thanks for being so helpful Mark.

Basically the benefit of the

Basically the benefit of the MFCL YahooGroup is that it's full of people who are flat out experts at this sort of thing.  I suspect that some of them have indeed "written the book" on their subject area.

Certainly we can discus this sort of thing here, but there is a bit of wheel reinvention (or spinning) going on when the people there can literally give you an answer practically without requiring thought. And by lurking there, it leads to increasing your knowledge as well.

Thanks!

Thank-you Jeff for the explanation!

So these resources are "wells" of specific information on freight cars, all at ones fingertips so to speak, with many experts on the subject coming together in one place.

Got a reply out of

Got a reply out of MFCL.