Ike- Have you happened to run across any lettering diagrams for a Richmond & Danville boxcar? Thanks Matt Bumgarner

Ryan, No problem. What you describe is essentially what I recommended Dan do to be able to model a whole train but he declined to do it. What you describe is a great approach to effectively model

Great find, Ike! A high resolution version of this would be very helpful. Thanks for sharing it. -- Ryan Harris Fort Worth, TX

I am familiar with Dan's model and it is fantastic. I understand why he built only one. And I didn't mean to diminish any of the work he did on that model by making the point that the kitbash boiled

“Thin” Southern road name lettering For years, I have thought, and told people, that SRHA did not have a stencil drawing of the last version of the “thin” Southern road name lettering. In the

Ryan, In regards to your assertion that the SOU 4-bay ortners are an easy kitbash, I have to disagree. My good friend Dan Bourque built one of these cars and he said to get the model correct it was

I find the attachments very useful and understand the need to delete. Keep doing what needs to bedone.

Advance warning of what you are deleting would be helpful. Sent from the iPhone of the Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech -- John Ryan

All: We will keep allowing attachments to posts but it is about time to delete attachments from earlier messages to reduce our storage at groups.io. We think some of the past attachments have been of

Thanks for confirming the information Jason provided, Ike. Looking back at the builder's photos of the Greenville 3600cf open hoppers in the 1984 Car & Locomotive Cyclopedia the class label "HS58" is

Ryan: Jason Greene is correct that Southern never had car classes. Any photo you see of a Southern freight car with a class designation was taken after the Sou/NS merger. At that time, the new NS

I see what you mean about the term "stenciling" Ike. I have run across drawings that lay out where each individual stencil is to be applied, which I believe is what you're referring to. Those drawings

That's interesting, Jason. I'm certainly no expert on Southern railcars. I was using the terminology used in Andrew Dow's book, Norfolk and Western Coal Cars. In Appendix H there is a listing of "Coal

That's interesting, Scott. I'd be very interested to know when it wore the blue paint. I used to live in Newnan, Georgia not far from Plant Yates and Plant Wansley, so ever since I saw the publicity

In this discussion I was referring to the N scale model only to point out that it had all the data one would expect to find on the other cars in the series. I wonder if this was based in fact or if it

I've got the impression that Ortner hopper only had that scheme for a short period of time. It might have made a few trips in blue, but since it wasn't in interchange service they might not have felt

The Southern did not have classes for the freight cars. The drawings are however for specific number series of cars. Jason Greene

Here are two photos of Sou 550550. One is when the car was turned over to the Southern, the second photo is the only time I saw the car long after it was painted. The “in service” photo was taken

I cannot locate data on the Ortner car but recall it was the standard stencil arrangement with the 10,000 car stencil added. Other than that, it was the standard stencil scheme except on a blue

That Ortner rapid discharge hopper was a one-of-a-kind commemorative paint livery car, similar to the Pullman-Standard 200,000th car SOU boxcar 550555 that ran around for quite a while in its