1934 is an interesting date to model. Almost nothing had been built in the few years previous, so the freight car fleet was almost entirely cars built 1900-1930 or so. The older wood-frame truss-rod

Hi all Tony's article is one of the better ones that I have read recently and I know it is for the 50's but I model 1947 so it is not that far ahead of my time frame and should be reasonably

C&O also called Berkshires Kanawhas C&O considered itself a Southern road in those days headquarters in Richmond Va. ,no Yankee names allowed

Armand Premo...apparently homesick for the snows of Kilamen...ooops, Vermont...writes: "Tom, Were Big Boys used in passenger sevice?" Actually, yes...if you consider a "main train" [ otherwise known

When I wrote last night, speculating what Mike Bauers was talking about with his “photo-real modeling,” I mentioned a web page with all modeling done with paper. It took me a while to find this,

 Tom,Were Big Boys used in passenger sevice? Armand Premo

Another thought... Clark, look at it this way. Suppose you found out the quiet, dull and uninteresting guy in the next office was dating Scarlett Johansson. (If you don't know who she is, insert the

SP F50-4 would be very welcome Paul Doggett UK Sent from Samsung mobile "Tony Thompson tony@... [STMFC]" <STMFC@...> wrote: gary laakso wrote: These are the early

…just don’t call it the “Fast Mail”… Heading for jail… Bill Schneider Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 7:14 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Mike's article Clark

 Hey Mike,How about Milk Trains? ArmandPremo----- Original Message ----- From: 'Mike Brock' brockm@... [STMFC] To: STMFC@... Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 7:13 PM Subject: Re:

Clark Propst writes: "At last night’s ops I had a chance to thumb through the latest RMC. I was anxious to see Mike Brock’s article. Wow, was I surprised! It was about a passenger train!!!...A

David Bott wrote: This kind of article can really only be done for a fairly narrow slice of years. The data shown in Figure 1 are for 1950, which SHOULD have supplied some clue about the approximate

I read it and enjoyed it. I just wish it had pointed out that it was focused on a peri-WWII or later fleet. For example, the signature Southern cars were the 1937 steel boxcar and an even later car.

Clark, you make that sound like a bad thing. Tom Madden, Passenger Car List Owner

> These are the early Harriman cars, with mildly fishbelly sidesills of pressed steel, > classes F-50-1 to -3 ... What many SP and UP modelers havebeen clamoring for is the > straight-side-sill

Hear hear!!!! Hurray for Harriman flat cars!!! Tim O'Connor

Tony T. has a long article w/many photos about Freight Cars in the March Model Railroad Hobbyist. Bill Welch

Schuyler I can believe this. I remember seeing photos of an incredibly fine O scale layout in Chicago in the 1930's and the models -- especially lettering -- was as good as any I've seen in recent

Tom I think that 63971 was a 37' wood sheathed reefer like the Rapido (and Sunshine) models built by General American with an inside length of 29' and change. The 63xxx series was a mixture of steel

gary laakso wrote: These are the early Harriman cars, with mildly fishbelly side sills of pressed steel, classes F-50-1 to -3. Though they lasted MANY years in MOW service, they were largely out