I looked more closely at that boxcar, and it looks to me like it is off its trucks and on the ground. The car is much lower than the loco, and if you look at the bottom of the siding between the

I also modified Trix hoppers and have a nice train of a dozen cars. I have also rebuilt the underframes on a half dozen CA-3s, and a few boxcars. I skipped the Speedwitch underbody (which I know

Off topic because it is current rather than steam era. This is an almost model like drone view of a current day military rail move descending Cuesta grade into San Luis Obispo. Fascinating and also

Jim, I’ll add that within the period of this list, there were multiple military actions that saw significant mobilizations or movements of military forces that would rationalize large scale

Hi James: Are those images scannable? I'd love to see them. Thanks, Dave Owens

Jim Betz wrote: Jim, I hope you are not forgetting that there was a Korean War. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Hi, I'm going to take a different tack on this entire thread. Guys - I am probably -JUST- as pro-military as most of the people on this list ("above average"). But ... As Richard H. would have

Early rotary snowplows were steam powered and consumed lots of water as well as coal. They operated in extreme weather conditions, which was hard on man and machine. When something broke it was often

More interesting is what is in the car? -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI UserSPROG UserNMRA Life member #2623Member SFRH&MS

Here's a photo of the D&SL's rotary plow. http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/77529/rec/2 Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Probably refers to the rotary snow plow. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

A rotary would be a mechanical snowplow often used on Rocky Mountain railroads in the winter to keep the tracks clear. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Could rotary possibly refer to a snowplow? Jim Hunter

This is a link to a photo from the Denver Public Library: http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/30840/rec/5 The company service boxcar is stenciled "Rotary &

Ideal Buick for "Road Rage" encounters. . . Bill Welch

It has been awhile now, but I was at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California shortly after the 2 donated 3 axle Army flat cars arrived. The museum was excited about having a flat

Indeed Amtrak did end up with some of these. I’d forgotten seeing them in MofW service here in Michigan on Amtrak’s’own section of track (Kalamazoo, MI to Porter, IN, 110 mph). Dan

Dan, Getting off topic, but a quick response - Trident did an HO scale mixed media resin and photo-etch M-18 Hellcat a number of years ago. I have 2 awaiting construction and loading onto a steam era

Or a museum, VFW hall, or other display, or being shipped overseas to some friendly 3rd-world army. Many obsolete military vehicles end up in such places. Some (often large groups) are then shipped

There are pictures of whole battalions of M-48 tanks of Wisconsin National Guard's 32nd Infantry Division being loaded for transport to Ft. Lewis WA, October 1961 on regular MILW flats; some had 2 per