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Re: Magazine needed

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 #

By Mark Stamm · #105213 ·

Re: discussions at Cocoa Beach

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

By Tim O'Connor · #105212 ·

Re: Roaring Rails

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

By Kurt Laughlin <fleeta@...> · #105232 ·

Re: Roaring Rails

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

By tbarney2004 · #105211 ·

Re: discussions at Cocoa Beach

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

By Armand Premo · #105209 ·

Re: Freight Car Surprise in Boston Harbor

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

By Joel Holmes <lehighvalley@...> · #105208 ·

Re: discussions at Cocoa Beach

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

By Richard Hendrickson · #105207 ·

Re: Freight Car Surprise in Boston Harbor

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

By Don <riverman_vt@...> · #105210 ·

Re: Roaring Rails

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

By Joel Holmes <lehighvalley@...> · #105206 ·

Re: discussions at Cocoa Beach

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

By Tim O'Connor · #105205 ·

Re: Roaring Rails

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:

By Al and Patricia Westerfield <westerfield@...> · #105204 ·

Re: Roaring Rails

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

By Tim O'Connor · #105203 ·

Re: Freight Car Surprise in Boston Harbor

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

By Peter Ness · #105201 ·

Re: Roaring Rails

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

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #105200 ·

Re: Freight Car Surprise in Boston Harbor

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

By Brian <cornbeltroute@...> · #105199 ·

Re: Roaring Rails

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

By Andy Carlson · #105202 ·

Re: GN 14095 ex-PRR??

Staffan is, of course, correct. I was thinking of the NP's second hand round roof cars. My apologies. Richard Hendrickson

By Richard Hendrickson · #105198 ·

Re: Roaring Rails

I recall an episode of Star Trek where they "time travelled" to Detroit and suddenly in one scene you can see mountains in the distance! Ya just gotta love Hollywood. I don't think anyone in the biz

By Tim O'Connor · #105197 ·

Re: Freight Car Surprise in Boston Harbor

Steve's link took me, at least, to the cover of the book. There are photos on the page facing 88, and a few pages later, in the appendix. Click through a few pages from the front, and you get to the

By Schuyler Larrabee · #105196 ·

Re: Freight Car Surprise in Boston Harbor

Guys, what a great photo! Do my eyes deceive me or are the freight cars on those floats all leaning toward the center? Thanks, Larry Hanlon. Bend, OR

By mt19a <LarrynLynnHanlon@...> · #105195 ·

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