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You’ll find tips for adding mail and express switching operations to your layout in the July 2010 installment of “The Operators” column in Model Railroader. In this video, Executive Editor Andy Sperandeo shows you some of the mail and express train car models that he uses on his home layout.
Superb!! Not only does Andy highlight the types of cars, but also the specific time frame in which the type/paint scheme would apply. As a Louisville & Nashville modeler, there's no doubt I can use those Pennsy cars in my L&N consists of the early '50s. Though a bit late for my modeling period, I have seen the prototype AT&SF express boxcars in later L&N consists, too. Again, great video. Thanks.
Thursday (03-19-15) I begin giving tours at the Monterey & Salinas Valley Railroad Museum to grade schoolers. I'm glad I happened on this video as it will be a great source of info to me as I retell the story of our REA/RPO Harriman Era car we our restoring.
that is good information
Very informative, with lots of new information for me. Thanks Andy for your demonstrations, historical knowledge and straight talk.
Great video. Would love to see andy do a video on super detailing different cars. Thanks
great video ANDY
A another great video Mr. Sperandeo, I am wondering how you could add mail services to an operating session.
Very nice segment. Liked the relevance in each car and type of service each car provided.
Vary informitive
Great historical look at RPO cars, reefers and boxcars, Andy. This was an excellent video and I look forward to reading The Operators column and seeing more of such videos in the future.
Great presentation, Andy! Growing up in South Carolina and Georgia, I remember seeing Pennsy head end cars at times on the Seaboard Coast Line's "Champion" and "Silver Meteor" Passenger Trains, especially around the Christmas season. Looking forward to more video clips from you in the future. Thanks!
Extremely interesting Andy, I knew absolutely nothing about these cars until I saw your video tonight. I certainly hope you do a similar video on Milk cars. I am modeling the 30's through 60's in New England, and Dairy was a big industry as you know. GREAT JOB Andy !!!
Great video. It would have been nice to see more close-ups of the cars, but otherwise excellent video. Thanks.
Very good Andy. These videos tell us so much more than what we could ever read. Im looking foreward to more.
Good Stuff. I would hope you guys would do a series of these with different type of cars. Very good stuff.
Great video Andy! I really enjoy anything relating to operations and think the followup videos to your magazine column are just great. Hope you get to do many more of them in the future!
Thanks again, Andy Keeney
That information would make for a pretty large article, nicely put together with lots of relevant information. I'm a bit surprised that Andy pulled on the cars directly though, I suppose running a locomotive might have been too noisy for the video.
Excellent information. Where might I obtain information regarding some other prototypes?
Enjoyed this video very much. Great information as well. Keep these coming!
Very informative video Andy. I have a question – what about the cars made after WWII from troop sleepers and kitchen cars? There were a number of them available….
Very informative. Excellent. This feature has become one of my favorites. Keep up the great work.
Very helpful with regard to the Pennsy cars which ran on the Montrealer/Washingtonian if my research is correct.
One of the best presentations in this series. Nice to know you can assemble a train of this type with (mostly) available plastic cars. I especially liked the comments about interchange traffic as I am not an ATSF modeler. In fact, I model MP and didn't know there was that much between the two
Jerry
An excellent supplement to the Operators article itself. it does the soul good to see even an Andy Sperandeo running an Athearn car with the "claw" doors and cast on grab irons.
A word of advice — should you ever be invited to visit or operate a really nice layout with excellent models of this quality do NOT assume that you are supposed to or allowed to touch them with your fingers as Andy does here, even though it is almost essential for uncoupling. There are many modelers who would get rather testy if they saw that.
I really appreciated the information about this subject since I also model the Santa Fe. Keep up the good work.