Very excited about the N&W B5, arguably the most homely boxcar ever built. thank you for doing them Pierre. Bill Welch

Please have a look at this blog post for news from Yarmouth Model Works https://elgincarshops.blogspot.com/2019/08/new-kits-for-fall-of-2019.html -- Pierre

The REA shipments that I remember were flowers and live day old chicks. For Valentines Day lots of small town florists would be getting boxes of roses. At the REA building back behind Louisville KY

I find a camera can be a helpful tool when building models and to capture roster shots when the models are completed. A few photo tips are shared in my latest blog

So it appears that once again the NMRA coild do the hobby a favor and promote a standard for axle size, length and bearing style for the end as well. Has the NMRA actually upgraded any of its

Doug has it right; LCL and Express don't mix. LCL was a freight tariff, the cheapest way to ship heavy, bulky items that didn't fill a car. It was more expensive than carload rate, but carload rate

The Blackhawks move West The Blackhawks move West The 86 th Infantry Division was my dad’s unit, at least the one he went into combat with in 1945. He didn’t s... On the 74th anniversary of

Read “Ten Turtles to Tucumcari: A Personal History of the Railway Express Agency” by Klink Garrett and Toby Smith Garrett worked for the REA his entire career, climbing the ladder to a VP. Book

Hi Steve, From my experience Railway Express had their own offices & storage buildings in even smaller towns (but not really tiny places), always shipped on passenger trains, usually in railroad-owned

Good evening, I’ve found a pretty good education from: Railway Express Agency: An Overview - VS Roseman I think it’s out of print, but picked up a copy on eBay a few years ago. Stic Harris Sent

Since LCL is being discussed in another thread, I thought I'd ask a related question - can anyone summarize REA ops, or suggest some books or resources? I have heard it described as "UPS by rail", but

All, I know the shake n take kit was done a few years ago and that there are drawings in the car cyclopedias. Working on an O scale master and I have been unable to find detailed enough drawings to

A tedious, but not impossible, solution is to remove the plastic wheels from their axles, and press on suitable metal wheels. I think it was Dennis Storzek who pointed out that pressing on an

The problem with bowser wheels is they only come in code 110 and wheel face looks nothing like a real wheel. Same problem as the ugly BLI wheels on their tank cars. Brian J. Carlson

thanks! Jared

Yes.

I just ordered three packages of direct replacement metal wheelsets from Bowser. Item 40198, $20. Alex Schneider

I have photos of this car also if you need them. J. Stephen Sandifer

Tim has that exactly right. I didn't mean to imply that the scene changed overnight, but that the die was cast at the end of WWII when the ICC didn't object to substituting highway haulage to serve

Just to note - freight houses are not exclusively for LCL. A new small freight house was built in Grafton MA in the 1990's for the Grafton & Upton right off Conrail's main