I can't remember what magazine the tank car plan was published in but it would have been around 1954.   The drawing I made was pretty crude. But the data came from a good drawing in one of the

Hi Jeff and group; Thanks for the question and welcome to the wonderful world of RPM! If you're bringing models to put out on display, no reservations are required. Bring lots of models, there will

Chris-Craft and other similar small-boat builders most commonly shipped just about everything by rail until well after the war. My own personal family 1946 ChrisCraft was shipped from CC's

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Can you all tell me what type of Brake wheel that is supposed to be? Are the end tack boards separate parts? Elden Gatwood

The photos I took are available now at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/photos/album/652317869/pic/list> Car was taken out of the box and put on the test stand/track you see there. -- Craig

The Microscale Decal number 87-1016 includes side and end scale drawings of one dome 8000 gal car with 6 lettering schemes and one two dome 6000 gal. car in 2 lettering schemes. I assume the drawings

I think this photo of a Pere Marquette gondola loaded with two row boats is reasonably famous. http://www.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/401/29365/january-1996-page-51 Tim O'Connor

Thanks Richard. For some reason my brain failed to register that reference when I originally checked the Trains Magazine Index. Greg Kennelly Burnaby, BC

Hi Greg, Very interesting stuff. There are (as far as I can see) no drawings of those cars in Kaminski's books: American Car & Foundry and Tank Cars: American Car & Foundry Company, 1865 to 1955. I

Folks, The 2011 Rails by the River RPM Meet held this past weekend Saturday and Sunday September 24th and 25th 2011 held here in Salem, OR at the Center 50+ Senior Center was a success. Let me

Check that. It's the November 1994. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

There is a Chuck Yungkurth drawing of an 8,000 gallon AC&F high walkway tank car in the November 1984 RMC, page 89. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

Would any of the group members know of published drawings for an AC&F high-walkway tank car of about 10,000 gallon size? I have photocopies of two pages of notes by the late Jack Work that include his

Gentlemen; How does one go about reserving a table for display purposes? This will be my first RPM meet so, I am not familiar with the ways of these meets. Thank you Jeff Sankus [Non-text portions of

I have just posted on my blog a message about Railroad Prototype Modelers (RPM) meets, and an off-list e-mail suggested that I should mention it to this list. INcluded on it is a mention of the

As a minor note, I would observe that T.A.D. Jones was, with his brother, a star football player at Yale U. in New Haven around 1910-20; he was subsequently the head football coach at Syracuse and

The 1922 Car Builder's Cyclopedia has a rather extensive section on the 1911 updates to the Safety Appliance Act that were still current at that time, and I don't suspect changed substantially for a

If you go to Fox Valley's web site they list the dates of all 6 paint schemes they are releasing. www.foxvalleymodels.com Just check the Sept 2011 and Feb 2011 announcement links. Rich Orr

Kevin I have a scan of an NP flat car loaded w/ 16 small boat hulls, stacked up 4 high on a scaffold built on the flat car. It's from the 1960's, in Chicago. Could be Cris Craft or another

In the Florida Photographic collection, search "Parker's Boat". I don't know what make of boat is shown, but I'm currently building the flatcar. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.