My paternal Granddad was a conductor on the northeast Iowa electric road WCF&N for nearly four decades. As a small fry, as I recall anyway, at his home I flipped through many railroad industry

Walt Cox wrote: The dual emblem scheme with color UP medallion was instituted in 1946, and the R-40-23 cars were so delivered. The black and white UP emblem was introduced in 1950, and "gothic"

That thank you was sent prematurely. All that information was helpful. As far as PFE cars are concerned if I could get a handle on when the dual color herald, black and white herald, overland, and

Anyone know where I can get info on the painting of this car? Such as roof, ends and underbody, were they black or yellow or ? I have only seen one photo of the yellow cars and can not locate same at

Yes, it is Hi-Tech Details, AKA Jimmy Booth. It isn't in their catalog yet because Jimmy is doing some work on the dies, but he has the original RC dies and certainly intends to re-introduce that

Thanks to all who replied to my original

Dave Snyder wrote: This is kind of my fault, because my upload to Google Drive did not quite work right. However, Richard Hendrickson has again updated and made minor changes to his article on HO

Walt, I am not sure if this responsive to your question or not. I have been fortunate to assemble a collection of Perishable Schedules for the L&N, SRR, ACL and SAL. Here is what I have gleaned from

Hello, I have a package deal which I am offering to anyone reading this post. Intermountain tooled their 12 panel box car for a Great Northern prototype. After running decorated kits and RTRs in

Ed, That may have been the Steam Shack in Rutland, Vermont and probably made by New England Rail Service. Don Valentine should know and Mal Houck is probably correct. Chuck Hladik Rutland

A hobby shop in New England offered decals for the different colors of these cars. If I'm not mistaken they said there were also white and/or silver (aluminium) versions of these cars in addition to

Richard, is this Hi-Tech Details? The rubber airhose/mu people? Also went to your HO truck site that I have and drew a blank screen versus your normal PDF, are there problems? I went there because I

Eric, those trucks are a 70 ton AAR self-aligning spring-plankless double truss design. You're right about the bolster end being wider; in fact, the whole trucks is bigger, 5'8" wheelbase as opposed

Group, Doing some research on CB&Q 70T cars built in the early 50s shows them riding on their no. 73 truck as shown in the picture on the

Mal Houck Wrote: "To my knowledge, they were at one time painted with a orange tank body on a black frame. Mal, Thanks for the Response, but the Orange or Red cars with Yellow lettering were

Walt Cox wrote: Whether this change was intended to model some specific prototype, I don't know. But if a PFE car is the goal, don't bother. The PFE class with that end was R-40-10, and

I have spent the evening searching the archives for useful information as to collecting a representative collection of U. S. roadname (fruit and vegetable) refrigerator cars FGE, PFE, SFRX, ART?

Is there anyone who might be able to help Andy with his question below? I don't believe he is on this list; please CC him. Earl Tuson

Could someone on the STMFC with appropriate engineering credentials help me design a rack to display 10 or 12 steam era freight car hand brakes for a museum display? Please contact me directly.

Yes, you're right, Richard, all were delivered with Youngstown doors. I do have pictures of cars with five- and six-panel Superior doors, thought he six-panel doors are far more common. Thanks