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You are correct, Don. The tools we have today to investigate this are astounding. I used Google Earth, and while the "lens" used by GE is different than the lens used in taking the Shorpy photo, I

There was a great deal of variation in such things as car side heights, underframe details, etc. These are the wooden cars I am talking about. I do not think there was such a thing as a "generic" Hart

STMFC folks -- does anyone make decals for this Royal Packing ART paint scheme? This car looks like it is pretty close to the Walthers General American horiz-seam steel

It is a great article. Does anyone know of a source of decals? Specifically I'm looking for Eastern roads during the late 40's to early 50's like the NYC, B&O Reading, D&H. Mark Stamm PRRT&HS #

Richard That's kinda why I was asking this illustrious group to consider, can a car like this with many design variations be made "Chad Boas" style or is this type of car just too complex for

Exactly. People just don't seem to realize that the movie is about the *story*, not the scenery. I see similar discussions on the military modeling groups whenever a war movie comes out. Everybody

I personally find it funny in one scene in "Rudy" (which historically was just after list time ends in the mid-60s, but SHOULD have featured plenty of STMFCs in the form of hopper cars in scenes

Nice choice Tim or the Hart Ballast car(,the steel Hopper) .Armand Premo

Hi All, I do believe that the old narrow guage RB&L was incororated into the Boston Rapid Transit system. I do not recall the date. A tunnel was built from the end or near the end of the RB&L into

Tim, the problem with the Rodger-Hart ballast cars was that the design kept changing so rapidly. Sure, some RRs had cars of the same design, but the next year the cars were different and the year

I, too, wondered if the photo was taken from the Custom House tower but believe the angle is wrong and that it was taken for a rooftop along Atlntic Ave. But the first building taller than the

Hi William, There was the time Barney was returning to Mayberry on the train and it showed him riding on either a ATSF or a UP train. (Can't remember which.) Amazing that those trains could get so

I have a request for you all to discuss -- What do you think of Hart Convertible gondolas as a possible resin kit? I think that many railroads owned these and quite a few of them were still around in

My favorite is the film Union Station where someone arrives in Los Angeles and then take a NYC elevated. – Al Westerfield Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 5:39 PM To:

And because a LOT of people rode trains back then, I'm sure many of them noticed the goof. Kind of like if a contemporary film was going to show someone flying out of O'Hare and then showed

Hi Brian, In the aerial collection are a couple of Fairchild Aerial Survey photos. The New Haven's freight yard in Boston was called the South Boston Freight Terminal and was appropriately located

Tim O'Connor wrote: Not true at all, Tim. In fact, there is typically a whole crew of "continuity" and "scene dressing" people, who are forever deciding what is important enough to do correctly

The Boston aerial photos are identified by area / neighborhood / township (what's the proper nomenclature?). For example: Boston. Bellevue Boston. Codman Square I'd like to find the New Haven's

Currently getting a lot of TV exposure, "White Christmas" has the Danny Kaye/Bing Crosby characters riding from Florida to Vermont in both a Santa Fe Warbonnet F unit powered train, and an SP Black