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Re: Railroad true stories?

Set Up Running is easily the absolute best first person account of a railroad man’s career I have come across. Not many railroad books would keep me up late reading it, “late” meaning way past

By Schuyler Larrabee · #145136 ·

Re: Railroad true stories?

A Roy C. Long, from Hinton WV, wrote about a lot of those stories on the C&O railway . . . a conductor shooting a railroad exec for accepting advances of a flirting female passenger . . . that he was

By water.kresse@... · #145126 ·

Re: Railroad true stories?

Hi Brian, You might have a look at the biography “Set Up Running: The Life of aPennsylvania Railroad Engineman, 1904–1949” by John W. Orr. You won’t find organizational charts. You WILL

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #145125 ·

Railroad true stories?

Ah, hope this question isn't out-of-bounds for this list. The question is about steam-era railroading, and it might (I hope it does) involve freight cars. So. . . . I've googled a bit but without much

By grangerroads@... · #145124 ·

SN Interchange Photos

Good friends, List member Fred Janz inquired about interchange cars on the Sacramento Northern for a friend of his. A long time ago I made a list of the cars I could ID from

By Garth Groff <sarahsan@...> · #145123 ·

Re: Recycled Tank Car

Bob Chaparro wrote: May 1, 1917, with the introduction of MCB Class III standards. But double rivet rows had been RECOMMENDED since 1910, and many new cars after 1910 were built that way. Tony

By Tony Thompson · #145122 ·

. . . Airbrushes 101 & Airbrushing Acrylics with Them-Help Wanted, IL RPM Chicagoland October 20–22, 2016 at Lisle

I am planning two Airbrush & Acrylic Paint events for "RPM Chicagoland" at Lisle, IL October 20–22, 2016 and will possibly need some HELP for PART TWO to be successful. Please read next-to-last

By Bill Welch · #145121 ·

Recycled Tank Car

I came across this image on Flickr in one of EarlLeatherberry's collection of railroad photos. This is a tank car that has been givennew life as some sort of oil storage tank in a rail yard.

By thecitrusbelt@... · #145120 ·

Want to Trade Sunshine #99.4 Type 17 Tank Car for. . .

Okay time to update. The Sunshine #99.2 Early Tarvia has been traded for the Sunshine #65.1—Northern Pacific SS Boxcar. I still have the Sunshine #99.4 Deep Rock I would like to trade for one of

By Bill Welch · #145119 ·

Re: Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Volume 33

Hi Ed please send 4 copies thanks, norm

By Norm Buckhart · #145118 ·

Re: Ultra Scale FGEX Kit question

It is the 1927 FGE/WFE car, gorgeous model complete w/center grooved wood sheathing. Look to Protocraft for decals. Bill Welch

By Bill Welch · #145117 ·

Re: Securing A Boiler Load On A Flat Car

Steve, thank you very much! Thanks also to all group members STMFC who were interested on my website! There was the highest number of visitors on my website in last 24 hours - 190 visitors opened 386

By Bernhard Schroeter · #145116 ·

Re: Youngstown Doors on 1937 AAR Boxcars

Just to add to that Brian, this style of door was available in resinfrom Joe Pennington in the 1990's. I think he liked SLSF so I'm guessing thatSLSF had these doors too. C&EI definitely also used

By Tim O'Connor · #145115 ·

Ultra Scale FGEX Kit question

Gents, I picked up an Ultra Scale #601 kit, the FGEX reefer, sans instructions and decals. I've been looking online, and through Bill Welch's awesome article in the Keystone/B&O/Seaboard/SCL modeler

By Clark Cooper · #145114 ·

Re: Making Brass models

I got the address wrong in the last post - here is the correct one (I hope): Kohs & Company Model Site Directory Kohs & Company Model Site Directory Railroad

By proto48er · #145113 ·

Re: Making Brass models

It isn’t a Powerpoint presentation but similar: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeff_lemke/25171282363/in/album-72157664865492920/ There is an arrow on the right which lets you look at more

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #145112 ·

Re: Making Brass models

Guys - Look at the Kohs & Company website. They have photo updates on a number of their locomotive projects that have detailed photos of the model's construction at the Korean builder. These are

By proto48er · #145111 ·

Youngstown Doors on 1937 AAR Boxcars

On Sunday I posted my displeasure with Red Caboose's tooling for their Youngstown doors on their 1937 AAR box car (10' interior height). Since then I've looked into doors and would like to share. The

By brianleppert@att.net · #145110 ·

Re: Making Brass models

On 10/3/2016 4:18 PM, repairman87@... [STMFC] wrote: Scott, I can't answer your question, or even how they were made. I can however share a few small

By Spen Kellogg <spninetynine@...> · #145109 ·

Re: Making Brass models

Scott If you're talking about the builders in Korea etc, I suspect that most of the information that you would want to know is PROPRIETARY i.e. trade secrets. When Samhongsa was forced out of

By Tim O'Connor · #145108 ·

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