Tony, If you mean "the reefer goes to the grocery warehouse" and "the tank cars go to the oil dealer" and .... etc. Then I agree with you. But the same car, including the same number ... day after

Tim O'Connor wrote: The only SP GS cars in the late 1950s were wood-chip cars, much deeper than what we would think of as GS gons, though they did indeed have drop bottom doors. I'm not aware of

Has any one had experience lately with obtaining permission from Mainline Modeler/Hundman Publishing to reprint an article from the magazine? If so, what is the contact information you used ask

the photo needs to be flip tom -- Thomas j Cataldo

---In STMFC@..., <gn2059@...> wrote : > Tom, are you following this discussion and would you care to comment? > I hope I haven't mischaracterized your comments. It's been a couple of > years since we

Accurail used to have a page on their website that listed the paints that they used. They give a mix for some of their colors on their website (under FAQ) but they discontinued the listing when they

Tony I think it is highly variable, based on the location. In the 1960'sthe two PRR branchlines near my home in NJ saw a wide variety of freightcars, especially food, beverages and lumber from the

Jon: I'm working on the same car. My holdover Poly Scale Mineral Red is pretty close, but a tad dark. I may try lightening it with a drop of white. Dave Parker Riverside, CA On Wednesday,

The Union Pacific and Southern Pacific also bought 46 foot, 70 ton GSgondolas but much later - in the 1950's. All of them operated into California viathe LA&SL, SP, and WP. The Santa Fe also had large

Note that the photo is reversed. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List <STMFC@...> on behalf of STMFC List <STMFC@...> Reply-To: STMFC List

Have a Nickel Plate (#1302) and wonder what a matching paint would be for the brake shaft/wheel? -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, SPROG, JMRI UserNMRA

From the Barringer Library (image reversed): https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/12296626883/in/dateposted/ Viewer Comment: "Michigan City,Ind (Monon on left, MC on right) -

The notes for the photo say the photo was taken at Fort Madison, IA. The train supposedly is the Santa Fe's Navajo. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

hello jack I was look at your tool link alot dont link any more here that you might know http://umm-usa.com/onlinestore/index.php?cPath=21 tom cataldo -- Thomas j Cataldo

In a longer comment, Jim Betz wrote: Over the years, working railroaders have often pointed out that a local train crew, when coming on duty, could take one look at their train and know where most

That's great. Now I've got a Red Caboose tank, the parts for the frame are available from Tangent, and the decals will be coming. Anything else I should know that's not visible in the picture? I'd

Since they are black, I suspect that he is casting his own cars at home. Hence the crude look. If he was using Shapeways and having them made in Frosted Ultra Detail, they would be translucent and the

I agree about the coarse details, but if I were modeling the D&RGW and needed dozens of them, I might think otherwise. The pictures of the finished model do look nice in the context of a finished

Armand, First select the cars that will service your -on layout- industries. Usually that will be about twice as many cars as you have car spots (for empties in/loads out or vice versa). Second

I remember seeing these cars in an article by Richard H. (I think) about GS gondolas and thinking they looking comparatively massive. especially the longer one. Is it reasonable to say these would