I'd love to do this! Would someone on the list supply me with consists for Missouri Pacific Trains on the Benton or East-West Subdivisions of the Illinois Division anytime from 1945-1957?

Well said, Elden. My thinking exactly. To model prototypical main line operations realistically requires a hell of a lot of real estate. I' don't know of any small (e.g., bedroom-sized) layouts

Mike, Overland also offered them in Sinclair (e.g. OMI 3482.8). Search the STMFC archives for "HO brass GATC tank cars from OMI". There were a number of emails on these cars in 2001. According

I concur with Richard -- and I do find Bruce's description rather condescending. Nowadays a home layout can run into 10's of thousands of dollars, not to mention requiring space in one's home (which

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE For those many of us that cannot/couldn't host a "full-sized" (whatever that implies) layout, the "railfan" layout is a great compromise. I had just

Sohio operated outside the state of Ohio as Boron Oil Co. However I blew up that photo and in the haze on the horizon to the upper left there is at least one skyscraper and I'm gonna bet its

I'm not doing exactly that - I have no train consists from my modelling area and era to work from (the nearest consists are dated some 25 years later). However, on the advice of a mathematically

???????????? Elden I have seen dozens of consist lists posted here (conductor's books) and I have bought conductors' books on Ebay. Friends have given me a number of modern consist printouts. I

Yes, I have a couple of the same Challenger cars, received gratis for having helped with proto info. You are right that the operating rod for the doors should be square. Some of the 1920s GS

30 bucks??? Does this guy have an address?? (I just saw one listed for $150) Challenger imported both SP G-50-9 and G-50-12 models. And similar UP gondolas too. Tim O'Connor

Yes, but only after WWII.

Rich Orr wrote: Boron was indeed a subsidiary of Sohio but there were Boron stations in Ohio, too. Not sure how all that worked. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

I also managed to stea...uh...acquire an Overland GATC 8,000 gal vertical course tank car...unpainted...Overland # 3481. Overland seems to think this car served Oldetyme Distillers, Mi-Co, Gasoline,

JIm, many years ago the late Terry Metcalfe had found a cache of wheel reports for the location and date he wanted to model on the Union Pacific and was well along with the research that would

I am back to using Solidworks again. I have designed 1 container so far in S Scale. http://www.lanestrains.com/Lanes_Trains_Containers.jpg I am looking for a person or small group of people in HO and

Jim and Group, While I do not model specific trains, I do base my modeling on a somewhat similar bit of information. My operation scheme for my switching layout has its foundation based upon the

These are part of a little sprue of boxcar details offered by Tichy. Also they are part of the styrene 1/2 door detailing set done a few years ago by "Standard Car Company," an offshoot I think of New

I've done it with passenger trains, but not freight. lack of reference materials on my part mostly as I'd like to do an accurate mixed train sometime. Jim Murrie -

Why not? Primarily because they are not available for the road I model. They were consider to contain information that was valuable to competitors so the sheets were routinely destroyed by the