Panoramic photos of most major railroad yards show a high proportion of home road cars, but as Richard says that is not representative of traffic patterns. Home road cars can be stored because

Afternoon, Looking for a builders photo or good broadside of the original white/yellow paint scheme for the UP B-50-32 cars. Hoping to use for some accurate decals for the Protocraft B-50-32's in

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Fascinating, exactly in line with what I determined from a conductor's time book on the SP Coast Line during 1948-52. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

Gents, Bowser has posted images of their first run of paint schemes for the H30

I was looking at the photo of the tank cars in the Shorpy photo and realized that one of the tank cars must be an Athearn car with its oversized dome. It is the 4th car on the string of cars going

A (typically) spectacular photo by Delano. However, the comment attached to the photo is seriously misleading. Barstow was a natural connecting point where Santa Fe cars were gathered for

Group... Found this on the Shorpy website. Thank you Jack Delano! http://www.shorpy.com/node/14279 Regards... David Henderson Sacramento, Ca.

Hi, I, for one, have noticed a significant increase in the number of 'compromised' email addresses resulting in spam/crud/*!*! being sent to the RR hobby related groups. These are rarely, if ever,

take a look, see what you think http://bit.ly/12tPgv6

So it's now becoming clear to me that I've misremembered. That and I've built too many Sunshine tankcar kits overall. Some do come with a PVC tank core. Thanks to everyone for their input. Back to

Pierre, I am a bit confused by your question. Are you referring to kit 60.3, Fleischmann - Standard Brands? If so, my kit does not have a PVC tube to form the tank. However there is a PVC tube

Pierre.   As par Martain, the tube was for forming the wire for the wrap'.  Dennis Williams/Owner http://www.resinbuilders4u.com/ ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent:

It's been about 10 years since I built mine but I don't recall having a PVC tube with it. I do distinctly remember hunting around and finding an old broom handle in the garage that did the trick for

I'm about to tackle another one of these neat kits and the kit I have is missing the PVC tube for the tank form. Does someone have an unbuilt kit that they can measure the PVC tube for me? Need length

I saw Jeff's post about the Freight Car Clinic for 2013 but did I miss something about the balance of the offerings. I keep checking the website to no avail. Just curious. I know Mont is doing

I can't tell if these have been offered before by Atlas -- but I'd be interested to know if anybody has seen an undec? Assembled? Ron Merrick

Yep at jacked up prices. Brian Carlson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I may have missed this but are these the old Branchline Blueprint cars? http://www.atlasrr.com/HOFreight/ho50sdboxcar1.htm Todd Horton [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

car, tooled about 30 years ago.��Now Tichy part #3002. And in S scale: Pacific Rail Shops's injection molded 50 ton AAR truck has a separate spring plank spanning the side frames. Earl

how is everything STMFC@yahoogroups.com r you still using this i have waited long enough http://goo.gl/MO18L?iz3ob get back to me