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To be clear, no I'm not sure the number is 3185, the slide I have is the only decent close-up I have of the side and the number's not particularly clear so 3165 is likely it. Car shows up in a variety of magazine shots of PC trains, but none of the photos are close or clear enough either. Shots in s...

Per MS PRR Color Guide Vol2 by Fischer, ..most but not all of the over 600 N5's (Blt 1914-29) were retro-fitted with the collision posts. The N5B''s were a subsequent class of 200 cars (Blt 1941) built with the posts, higher side handrail arrangement and revised interior arrangement, the subsequent ...

Oh yeah, RE the roof mounting kits, with Walthers psgr. car kits I skip those and prefer a single #6-32 x 2" machine screw and nut set at the absolute center of the car. The Walthers mount kits I used consisted of smaller diameter but equal length brass screws that were mounted at the corners. ...

You can find it on EEEEEEE-Bay, my brother is accumulating Walthers "O" Hi car kits and has had good luck in the "Other" section under O-Scale finding various parts for this very good series. Keil-line has(had?) stuck largely to the more generic heavyweight parts to repro, though...

My understanding re 4300 (ne 5700) was re-painted in the same loosely applied succesive scheme manner as the remainder of the E-Unit fleet, I recall at least one photo of it in the single stripe dual keystone versions, and the dual headlight variation as an early company experiment regarding operati...

I have a slide of this car taken at Sunnyside(a severly color-shifted mug-shot where-in the upper part is degraded to brown) and was wondering if this car is the only one PRR acquired from DR&GW? My understanding is most of these(ex-C&O 1660 series aka "Robert R Young" cars) went t...

Conversely I would be surprised if the line wasn't upgraded solely to keep one of it's primary revenue traffic types- chemicals including a lot of nasty stuff with serious special handling reqs, off the "pokey" CR had to have done some work on this sub in the 80's and 90's, it had devolved...

Grab those books while they're still around, none of these publishers production run's are nearly as big as they used to be, note many of Morning Sun's popular early volumes by Sweetland are still available while more recent works can sell out within a year. IMO one of the most interesting on PC eve...

Anyone have experience applying the McGinnis scheme? Specifcally interested in the EP-5 as delivered with the large NH nose lettering as opposed to the later scheme with smaller letter "herald" (not as nice.) Interested in best paint match for the Orange-ish Red? I recall Floquil's "S...

Personally no, Cavanaugh's book has some shots of a Hunter Green DL(0738) in storage and the post retirement Orange DL-109 (PP716) with some other white-lined power, most of the published shots of retired NH power I've seen focus on the older steam, motors and "experimentals" Interesting q...

SG, you totally it nailed it,
Kudo's, well done.

The only domes I'm aware the C&NW owned was a full length car for it's business train circa eighties, though I think UP domes operated into Chi- before the C&NW passed off the operation east of Omaha to Milw. Many of the lightweight 400 cars, (especially the coaches) had a unusual window lay...

Sorry I'm a little dense, "less than three beans.." means how much? IMO a complete set should be only worth the total retail $ of it's component volumes unless some of them have gone O.O.P. in which case that typically at least doubles the original retail price of that volume, the complete...

Thanks Allen, the fabricated trucks add to the whole FM "Mojo," want to see how they did them, let me check the archives to see if I have the #64 Train Shed Encyclopedia, got a few of them back when, now in the "big pile" of legal cartons in the basement. Again thanks for the tip...

Erie built 2000hp freight cabs 5000 and 5001 were built with fabricated trucks unlike the "normal" General Steel Castings version found on the later units in the series as well as those of other roads. Does anyone know of a good shot or line drawing of these trucks? In the one shot I've se...