Morning everyone,

I sent an e-mail to Kadee a few days ago, asking if there is a remote chance they may offer 40ft. & 50ft. cars, without roof walks, lettered and painted for Penn Central & Conrail. I received a response from Sam Clarke saying they would, but they are in need of "good" photos where they can read the small data on the cars. If anyone has photos of PC & CR cars, they can contact Sam Clarke, R&D/Tech Advisor/Artist, Kadee Quality Products Co., mail@kadee.com, phone (541) 826-3883. Thanks.

Hello,

Would like to know what type of Customers and/or Commodities that would be found along branch lines in the south? I assume there would be pulp wood loading, wood chip loading, cement, but what else would make for an interesting branch line layout? Time frame most interested in is, 1955 to 1980. Lines of interest are; CofG, GA, D&S, A&WP, ACL, SAL, L&N, N&S, G&F, SOU, M&B, C&C, TAG, C&WC, WofA, SCL, to name a few. Thanks.

James Barnes, Jr.

   I've had this old S scale gondola laying around for a while and am thinking about painting and lettering it.  It's a 40 foot gon with solid bottom and pretty high sides. It has some strange looking large side ribs and large end corrugations but pretty scale sized ladders, steps, and grab irons. It looks like a cast car, some kind of shiny metal,perhaps aluminium. Probably from the early days of S scale. Anyway does anyone have a suggestion for a paint job that might look somewhat like a real car? Any roads that ran high side 40 foot steel cars? ...DaveB

Still doing the modeling, it’s just time consuming and I’ve been busy busy with life these days. Hope you all are well and really enjoy the content here on MRH the best!

Erik

PS: some recent work in o scale