Sean, There is a 1961 color photo on page 64 of CLASSIC FREIGHT CARS, THE SERIES, VOL. 1 by John Henderson. In case you don't have this book, or can't find same, I will describe. The car has fairly

Fred, I just ordered some decals from them a couple of weeks ago - the set for their six-pack of 40-fot, 50-ton flat cars.  I found them to be clear and sharp, but unusually thick as you mention.  I

Eric, A Monon carman told me that when replacing individual wood running boards on freight car roofs they always painted them so they could charge more work to the car whether a home road of

Lester, Curious about what happened to MINX 1040? See my Groups IO photo album at https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/album?id=45161 . Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Since I was stuck in moderator limbo for several days, I discovered a previous thread on these cars and specifically a message from Eric Hansmann compiling some very helpful prototype info from the

Uh, Fred, Since you model the early 1950s, if you want NIPX 8 and want it to be accurate, you might check some ORERs to see when this car (and this reporting mark) went out of service. NIPX does not

While I generally try to stick with reality, my current layout is freelanced, but set in possible reality. The Virginia Midland serves Madison, Virginia, and some of its industries are based on real

I'm working on a six pack of HO scale Tichy 50 ton, 40 foot flat cars and have decided to letter them for six different roads.  I model the UP in the 1950-1953 time frame so I'm thinking of using UP,

Friends, Some of the Delano photos taken of the CNW yard in Chicago show this sort of track, and even a few of the hand-pushed narrow guage cars. Yours Aye, Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge 🦆

Tim and Friends, Add WP to your list. By 1940 some of their double-sheathed boxcars from series 16001-18500 were renumbered to series 26001-26125 and were assigned to bulk plaster service out of

Friends, For what is worth to this discussion, Kodak Verichrome Safety Film, an orthochromatic film was available from 1931-1956. Kodak's panchromatic Panatomic X was introduced in 1933, and their

Stephen I recall someone (perhaps at the St Louis RPM) told me that Tichy's printer uses a type of "plastic" transfer method to create the lettering. If so, they

Jim that is awesome!! And they did it all without computers or email - or evidently even the phone! I would never have thought a load of CORN in a reefer would be partially

Nolan Hinshaw wrote: Thanks, Nolan. Glad you enjoyed it. I have no idea how YouTube inserts the ads, but if you watch a few times, you see all different ads, and not even the same number of them each

Tom Casey wrote: Thanks, Tom. Glad you enjoyed it. Tony Thompson tony@...

Some time ago I purchased some of the Tichy PFE decals. Unfortunately the lettering was way to thick to look good. But the SP and UP shields could be used for the period when PFE used metal shields

Schist, that's gneiss. Your comment in the blog post about the ads is a bit off-center - the ads don't always show up. — ^<@<.@* hat less at less point at star }"_# | back brace double

Here's a youtube video link that was just posted on the EJ&E group. This was filmed at Griffith IN in the mid '60s. There's about 30" of a weed spray train working on the EJ&E, beginning at about

Since we are discussing meat traffic, I dug into the 1959 CB&Q wheel reports that showed interchange cars going to IHB via Congress Park, Illinois, for forwarding. I have a couple of

Saw that last night, well worth the time to watch. You sure have packed a lot of operation in a not so big space. Tom Casey