I just finished uploading and commenting on photos I took at the event. You can access them through this Model Railroad Hobbyist link. Photos are posted throughout the

Thanks, Dick - lots of great stuff! Great seeing you - and everyone else who recognized me at Collinsville! (I'd say that I recognized, but too often I don't, could never be a salesman). If anyone

Jeremy, Thanks for terrific photos and so many. Is there a way to download individual photos from icloud? Francis A. Pehowic, Jr. Sunbury, Pa.

I am not a regular reader of this (or any other) internet list. So my apologies for the slow response. I noticed in the past week or so a lot of viewers to my UP Freight Car painting clinic on

I just returned from the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society Convention. A speaker at that convention was Eric Brock, a professional railroader who is very experienced working with shippers

David There is also a picture of this car on page 68 of Pittsburgh and Lake Eire by Harold H. McLean (Golden West Books 1980). The author states that the car was either built by P&LE in the McKees

Apologies to Dick, I misunderstood what you told me. Bill Welch

Let me make a couple corrections to Bill's message, lest people have the wrong idea. Several HO PFE pre-prodction wood reefers were shown at Collinsville by InterMountain. The models being produced

Thank you very much for posting, Jeremy! Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

All, This link will take you to an album of photos from RPM St Louis that happened this last Friday and Saturday. Where possible I tried to photograph the name of the model builder either with, or

This was apparently somebody's sample car, built June 1897, that ended up as P&LE

Not the same car, but still a shorty: https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:8223.409.RR https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:8223.407.RR David Thompson

. . .PFE reefers built up from kits tooled by the late Terry Wegman. Not sure which ones will be available or schemes but these kits were designed to model the PFE's -18, -19 and -21. Dick Harley told

I’m now part owner of the Mark Vaughan's M&StL decal inventory. If anyone’s interested in any of his M&StL decals please contact me off list. cepropst@q.com

I plan to buy the new trucks, as I can't see a way to get the old wheel sets out and replace them with ones having metal wheels. Alex Schneider

Dan, Ah, fussy trucks! I had one of the metal cranes picked up second-hand as a youngster. It had some non-sprung metal trucks, which I now gather might have been a

Dan, Ah, fussy trucks! I had one of the metal cranes picked up second-hand as a youngster. It had some non-sprung metal trucks, which I now gather might have been a

Trivial point, but there was at least one additional version … after the crane was released as a plastic offering there were two versions … with and without the stack for the steam boiler. The

The reassembled, re-rigged crane is now on my layout and looking very good for its age. Assembly was tricky with directions, and probably impossible without. Alex Schneider

My thanks to all who offered help. As it happens, my crane appears to be the 1973 model with fewer pulleys on the boom rigging. Alex Schneider