1) Anyone know who displayed all those LV hoppers at prototype rails 2015? 2) Know how to get in touch with him? 3) LV had a large number of 2 bay, ribbed steel hoppers slightly smaller than USRA

I have a stash of the Champ BRH-44 & HR-4 sets for the ART reefers if anyone is looking for these. Regards, Bill Adam

would this application (z-shapes on the edges of the latitudinals) hae been used on the UNION PACIFIC A-50-6 50' single door cars? I have put off completing this model as I could not figure out how

Walt I just remembered Champ made a Blue Ribbon set for the ART yellow reefers that was well done you might check around to see if any are available. Good luck.. Charlie Duckworth

Here is the link to the various Field Museum albums on Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/field_museum_library/sets/ This is to the one "Moving The Field Museum". There are 78 photos. Moving The

Thanks Charlie and Ed, the info you supplied should get me myART R-40-10 "clones". Walt.

It's very likely not freight at all. The caption says: "Fighting African Elephants. Complete elephant and head being moved on railroad car and train from Field Columbian Museum to the new Field

You guys are guessing correctly. In the fine art world it's a painting that looks real enough to be a photo. In the modeling world it's like the HO WW-II Varney heavyweight passengers cars that while

Probably my email friend Mike Bauers should do the real explanation, but I think I understand what he’s attempting to do. Take photos of real steam era freight cars, photoshop them into

Why do you say it's LCL, Ray? This one is my favorite: Moving the Fighting African Elephants Moving the Fighting African Elephants Fighting African Elephants.

Group, I have a kit for a 40' Dubuque URTX wood refrigerator car. Its number is 63971. These two factors raise suspicions that the sides have been silk-screened or pad printed inaccurately.

I was wondering the same thing. If it is different from virtual modeling, the OP might want to look at the virtual modeling resources as I understand they have quite a collection of electronic

What is "photo-real modeling?" Bill Welch

I've added my comments to some of Schuyler's and Rob's remarks below. Schuyler Larrabee; But Jack’s right about the third style, using z-shapes on the edges of the latitudinals. The spotting

I'd say that is the exception rather than the norm... Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:"'Steve Sandifer' steve.sandifer@... [STMFC]" Date:Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:52 PM Subject:RE: [STMFC]

There are a lot of options on the market other than the $40 RTR cars. Our club just concluded a train show where you could purchase all the RTR weathered cars with Kadees and Intermountain wheel sets

Found it: it’s titled: DS-SS-Steel Split 1938 to 1950.xls DS = Double-Sheathed (with wood) SS = Singel-Sheathed (with wood) Steel = steel sheathed. Regards, -Jeff

Mike, In the STMFC “Files” section, if you search for “boxcar”, you’ll find a spreadsheet of all single-sheathed box cars 1945-59. I think there’s

This material is extracted from an article in the Santa FeEMPLOYEES MAGAZINE, Volume 3, No. 12 (November 1909). In those days SFRD stoodfor Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch. The article is titled

Thank you Bruce, and the rest of you guys........... This is part of the continuing build-up to going photo-real modeling with enhanced blow-ups of the Red Ball card side catalog pages. Catalog #9,