Tim, The 1941-1945 ICC steam RR annual reports break "animals and products" into 22 categories. While livestock movements are only a portion of that category, it is interesting to see the relative

Just to add to what Ray wrote: I can't find these HCCX cement cars in my 1930 ORER, but I have seen the pix, and the build date is indeed 12-28. They do, however, appear in my 1935 edition: 50

John, Volumes 27, 28, & 30 of Railway Prototype Cyclopedia devote 250 pages mainly to purpose-built ACF-design 1,958 cu. ft. covered hopper cars. Some were built before World War II not only by ACF

Carbon Black covered hoppers were first built around 1933 and travelled from carbon black plants to various industries involved in tyre production and printing supplies. I believe a tyre

The DL&W photo collection at Steamtown has a fascinating collection of six photos (X7126-X7132) showing HCCX/Hercules Portland Cement covered hoppers on a barge in Hoboken, taken on 4/1/1930. Zooming

Hi Dave, The ICC may have only been looking at rail shipments, while the USDA was looking at all animals and how they were shipped. I'll have to dig through my piles of PDFs to find the specific

Hi John, They most certainly would be prototypical. I'm also interested in early covered hoppers because they come in a fascinating variety of stylesunlike hte later 1958 cuft cars and later PS cars

I usually wait a day. The website shared earlier noted some decal setting solutions may haze the Future coat if you decal a few hours after applying the gloss. Another coat can remove the haze. Eric

Schuyler treat it like you would any acrylic paint. It dries in a matter of minutes. Esp if you use a hair dryer to speed up the process. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Hi Tom, I would appreciate that very much. Colin kemal_mumcu@...

I have been meaning to try Future, have some, and have a couple of cars to decal. How long after spraying Future on the car should one wait for it to dry or cure or whatever it does? An hour? Day?

Actually Andy, while the Ellwood shelling was more well known, it just so happens that Oregon was attacked by the Japanese not once, like California, but twice. Fort Stevens, Ore. was shelled (Ft.

Colin, The 1919 Car Builders Dictionary and Cyclopedia has a drawing (unfortunately, not dimensioned) on Page 339 (Page 357 of the PDF available on-line from the University of Hong Kong at this link:

We did the M26a and M26d (Speedwitch minikit) on the Virtual Modelers list. That list, though innactive for years, does still exist and the archives have a lot of information about modeling these

You are a brave man, Eric. I would pull something out of the junk box to try it on first. Not my latest project. Chuck Peck in FL

Bill, there are some caveats in modeling B&O M-26 subclass boxcars with the Red Caboose X29 family. - Only the B&O M-26a class has a body represented in Red Cabooses' boxcar line. Riveted lap

Not mentioned in this listing of Red Caboose X29 bodies is that there were two different truck bases (distance between king pins).

Thanks, Doug. I'm using Vallejo paints and I might give this a try on the latest freight car from the decal shop. Eric Hansmann El Paso, TX

Not limiting my interests to simply trains (can I get away with using "simply"?), I also like old gas pumps. My grandfather worked in the Ellwood Beach oilfield up the coast 10 miles from Santa

I received a note from someone about my Ebay auction of a Santa Fe Ga-45 covered hopper that the cars were used in sand service fromOceanside CA to a glass plant in the Los Angeles area. The cars were