I wish I could go! Looks like a massive event. Lots of great craftsmanship evident in the (large) flyer. The Joshua trees on page 23 & linked how-to article should be viewed by all UP, ATSF, & SP

W&R Enterprises worked with Microscale to develope the decals for the high running board ACF 10,000 tank cars. The illustrations in 87-966 show that The Texas Company and The Southwestern Refining

This same page in the GN/NP archives contain construction pictures of a Northern Pacific express reefer and detailed pictures of cranes and pile drivers. These couplers are wild!

Thanks Dennis. Not long after I posted I realized the ORER GK designation is probably the last thing to be wrong on an ORER freight car listing. I'll probably follow the KD brake system mounting on

Greetings Dave! I wish I could point you to prototype images of the later 1930s and through the 1940s. I think Cyril Durrenberger had an article in Model Railroader concerning a W&LE gondola

As long as the same animals are using the car. Shippers did not want their stock contaminated by soiled bedding from another stock owner. According to a clinc that Steve Sandifer presented at teh

Greetings all! It's time to announce another prototype modeler meet! Northeastern Fallen Flags Prototype Modelers Meet Saturday, September 29, 2012 9 AM to 6 PM at the Ted Blum 4-H Center 310

Example of the Klein Modellbahn tankcar: http://www.british-ho.freeserve.co.uk/showcase/freight-wagons/klein_modellbahn_usatc-bogie-tank-wagon_1.htm Tomislav Dornik, Croatia

The kit cars were made during WW2. In the book United States Military Railway Service by Don DeNevi and Bob Hall are photos of kit box cars being assembled in England (photo dated 10-17-44)and a

Doug Harding wrote: "Now for some questions: 1) Was the paper on the inside or outside of the car? I would speculate the outside, otherwise the hogs would rip it off and harm themselves

There have been successive groups of US built cars for war duty in Europe; The Haskell & Barker drawing files were full of drawings for various WWI cars. The cars that most of us here are familiar

Does anyone know of a prototype for the W & R Enterprises MCB Class II, 10,000 gallon, high walkway two dome and three dome tank cars? All that I have seen in multiple compartment tank cars are 8,000

--- In STMFC@..., "Eric Hansmann" <eric@...> wrote: I am happy to expose a prototype possibility for the Accurail gondola, but I must add uncertainty for cars in service beyond 1950 ...

Come along to the event and you say hello to me. Barry Bennett

It appears that the problem is resolved, as I was able to post this message from the web interface. Regards, -Jeff Aley Deputy Moderator, STMFC

Hello Tom and Group, Many years ago, Intercontental Engineering -- located between the Missouri River and the CB&Q east of Parkville, Missouri -- had a number of the box cars that they were using for

A new friend in Germany sent me the link to the official guide for the American Railroading Convention in October in Adliswil, Switzerland. Members of this list might enjoys seeing what is going on

I think I will proceed with the kit-bash regardless. At the rate I am getting things painted and decaled, maybe another prototype will surface, so I will ask, are there other prototypes for a

Gene, Actually, I am not sure. I thought that some of them were used in WWII, but based that on comments that I might have misinterpreted. Regards Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

There are a pair of the box cars without trucks at Commercial Metals in Independence, Kansas. This is a scrap dealer but I think they were being used for material storage. Tom Birkett Bartlesville,