Two things that caught my eye are the trucks under ice car 4714 which appear to be Fox with an extra tie bar running between the journal boxes and the Texas Co. car, which looks to be an ACF Type

With indulgence of the jailer, I would like to make a quick announcement. Many of the layouts are in the steam to transition era,have steam-era freight cars, and we feature a talk on LCLoperations

In addition to the very nice photos taken at the meeting by Dave Hussey and Greg Komar (and posted for our enjoyment), I too took a few photos of selected subjects at the meeting, and they are

In the late 19th and early 20th century, there was a car type called "ice and beer" cars. These were basically insulated box cars, used to ship those two commodities. Several treatises touching on

============= What!?! That's not a hot lather dispenser? Eric Hansmann El Paso, TX

Right! I suspect it is temporary for the construction project. Note the gondola with the workers is a good bit shorter than the others. And this photo pre-dates the installation of the post-1911

---In STMFC@..., <eric@...> wrote : These photos have so many cool details! ================ I'll say. I was wondering what that thing that looks like a barber's chair is on the right end of the

I just noticed the track that the gondolas are on - the one next to the new depot. Wow, talk about 'green' track! It reminds me of a temporary logging railroad spur. No tie plates, shored up with

The ice cars are also interesting. They have reefer doors but no roof hatches. DL&W 5902 seems to have some paper wedged in the upper left door corner to make better seal. There are small stencils in

http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-01-17-16/B0144.jpg The building under construction is the DL&W Scranton station, but the interesting thing for this list is the freight

For flyer and special order for, please email me OFF-LIST at brianleppert (at) att.net. I hope this works. Brian Leppert Tahoe Model Works Carson City, NV

Tahoe Model Works has recently offered a Northern Pacific 40-ton T-section Andrews truck in HO scale. I molded three versions of this truck. It seems over time NP strengthened the side frames by

Dave, you are so generous to do this every year. Thank you so much. Bill Welch

I agree with Tim. It would be great to see an update to the Sunshine list. I have several updates pending include to the Tahoe list. However, it's been so long since I last update the site that I've

Scott & Eric, It looks like a modification for work service to the steel plate ends on the 78000-79499 series wrong way box cars. Ted Culotta did a pretty extensive discussion of these cars in

http://www.pbase.com/dh30973/cocoa16&page=all Dave Hussey

It would be great to see an update to the Tahoe truck info here... http://sunshinekits.com/tahoe.html I bought two of the "modified" NP 16.x trucks from Andy at Cocoa Beach but neither one of us

Well, it required about 10 seconds to recognize the value of the search page and to bookmark it. Dick, thank you. -Brian Chapman Cedar Rapids, Iowa

In addition to Tony's book, CBCs and the IRM Library as a source for R-40-10 drawings, the Calif. St. RR Museum Library also has R-40-10 drawings available. Go to

Dennis, We were talking about this as a very common load fro empty stock cars inCCB last Friday morning while I was putting out my ACCURAIL GN stock car, themineral red one. A noted modeler said he