So the ruling is the Revell/Con-Cor flat will not yield an good model of a CB&Q flat car? I remember being quite happy with mine after the modifications I made. Bill Welch

Sure looks like they are unloading sand. If so, it will be taken to a dryer before it can be loaded into the dome. Before seeing this I was under the (apparently mistaken) thought that all of the

Good morning Gene and Group, Just for the record… I have seen a similar operation… in fact, I have been one of the shovelers. In this case the sand was shoveled to the open drop bottom hatch -- most

And I suppose the snow plow considered itself above it all. Gene Green

Gene, the CGW had a similar trestle (shorter) in Rochester Minn just east of the roundhouse for unloading engine coal. They probably had an elevator to load the tenders? Most photos show a snow plow

Gene, I noted that right away too. Looks like maybe locomotive sand? Love the steam shovel and the scraper. Further down that string is a bulldozer with an A-frame - perhaps all destined for a

Interesting photo. Looks like the gents in foreground are shoveling sand out of a drop-bottom parked on an elevated trestle? (Would there be any other kind of trestle?) Can someone more Santa

Another neat Jack Delano photo taken on the AT&SF in 1943 - Needles, Calif., according to the caption. Some neat cars are visible, including some interesting gondola

I was just relaying what the magazine said to help Scott with his search for information on those models and possible prototypes. Steve Johnson From: STMFC@...

Steve I think the standards of "very close" have changed in 26 years. :-) Sometimes it's painful to go back in old magazine issues and see what got documented as 'matching' this or that

Thanks, Al. I know Byron did the masters for your PRR X23 kit, and they were outstanding (I really need to build mine someday...) Bill Daniels [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Good evening, Richard I found your Railmodel Journal articles, thanks for the tip. Could you direct me to information on the 70t AAR cars? Thank you Scott Haycock Modeling Tarheel country in the

Bill – Byron is still around. I trade DVDs of movie musicals with him. He’s been busy doing some house renovations (he’s an architect) and hasn’t done much modeling in a while. I did the

Bill, I am not sure if PSM is still around, but he was light years ahead of his time. With Styrene and a set of scale coupler pockets don't you accomplish the same thing? Greg Eventually all

Greg, Your comment makes me wonder... is Pittsburgh Scale Models (Byron Rose) still around? I've got one of his flatcar kits here, and Byron mentions a scale-sized coupler pocket.   Bill

Good evening, Greg, Having started out kitbashing in the early 70's to get better models when Blue box and MDC were all there was, old habits die hard. Besides I am more of a modeler than a collector

Hello Scott, Your notes to the list made me dig out my Blue Line copy of my article in Mainline Modeler. At the time I was like you and owned one of the cars and wasn't sure exactly what I should

There's been a lot of sharing of fragments of information (and mis-information) on this subject, despite the fact that there is ample published documentation on both the AAR 50 ton and 70 ton flat

I looked in the file Ben referred to and found a BS on the SP- Bayshore Shops. Than is not conclusive because 2 letter codes are often repeated on different roads, and not every railroad is

Just a note that the abbreviation might not have been for a C&O location. Cars did get reweighed offline every so often, though it generally was uncommon. David Thompson