The cars WOT is doing are in the 700100-700299 series of PCF built insulated boxcars. I photographed a couple of these travelling through Ohio within the last 10 years (Photos are posted elsewhere on the site I believe). Paul
Some new N Scale announcements of interest gentlemen: None of these are Frisco but if you want to haul beer around St. Louis, there are five new reefers/boxcars that may be of interest. I've listed them on my blog here. These should be of interest to frisco modelers. Charlie
Woo hoo! Check Bluford Shops home page for an exciting announcement. More later.... Sent from my Motorola Electrify using Tapatalk 2
See my blog post here: http://nfrisco.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/bluford-shops-hear-our-plea/ They heard the call.
Unfortunately, the cars Bluford is using are not correct for the Frisco 3 bay wood chip hoppers. The Frisco cars had flat sides, but the Bluford cars are offset side cars. Paul
I talked to Steve at Bluford and he said that this is what they can do for us as the tooling is very expensive. Nothing is perfect but I will take what we can get. I'm not the world's biggest rivet counter. Charlie
I've never seen a ex-Frisco hopper that badly graffittied. Also the lettering usually holds up pretty well.
Graffittied railway cars, proto or model, look like crap! The RR detectives on my N scale Frisco don't allow such stuff... TAG 1014
I don't like graffiti either and this will be only my second such car. I can't resist buying everything Frisco that is released so I have to have it. Charlie
The only graffiti cars I own are some MoPac cars deluxe innovations did... But these are era appropriate grafitti cars. The large spray painted graffiti cars like microtrains is releasing ( not just on the Frisco covered hopper ) are artifacts of a more moden time. I do not believe these are appropriate for any Frisco era, so I won't buy one. I will buy the 2 bay hopper to expand my fleet for the home layout. Paul
Tom, Charlie and Paul, Agree with your comments that the king size graphics are not prototypical for the Frisco era. More prototypical would be a small Herbie and/or Bozo Texcino. These were usually very small and drawn with chalk markers that faded over time. They were also more clever and very much less offensive. Hope this helps. Thanks! Mark
Two new N Scale releases this month already and both posted at http://nfrisco.wordpress.com/. Charlie