I need some new "micro coat flat" but see it's a different item now. Appears to be water based. I read some reviews that said it dried glossy. The old stuff dried really flat.

On the NMRA PCR group Bob cited a layout that had cow sounds. But a full stockyard as in the photo's might be deafening....plus the bleating of the sheep.....not to mention the distinct aromas...

Garth and All, Here is a finer grain look at the origin according to counts in the ORER of WP 316001-318500 (1938) and SN 2301-2328 (1947). WP 316001-318500 1936[1] 1/1/1936, original

Photo: UP Livestock Cars A photo from Don Strack's Utah Rails website: https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Ogden-Union-Stock-Yards/Ogden-Union-Stockyards-Photos/i-xc8M6df/A In addition, there

Great find! So much to see from "back in the day"! Richard

A delightful film. I found the activity at the St. Paul station very enlightening. Thanks for posting the link, Gary. Matt Goodman Columbus, Ohio, US

The current issue of the Rio Grande' Society's THE PROSPECTOR magazine has an extensive article on these cars. Tom Madden

Lester That was a good find and you have made a great job of it as well. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Pierre Oliver is working on an HO scale resin model of the D&RGW PSC 40' box car for release in first-half 2020. Sunshine did a resin kit years ago; one or two appear on eBay once a year and go for

I have finished build and upgrade of a plastic kit, an ATSF class Bx-48 twelve side panel steel boxcar numbered 274525. It is the first car I used the relatively new Kadee Morton running boards on.

Many pictures of these cars in the Railway Prototype Cyclopedia combined volumes 31 and 32. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Andy and friends, Attached is a shot of D&RGW AX68032, probably at Glenwood Springs circa 2000 (yes it's fuzzy, but it was shot from the moving California Zephyr). This car was originally in the same

Why do they feel they have to put those very annoying time stamps on these things! - Tom

With Improved Dreadnaught ends this is not the same car although it does demonstrate the the D&RGW like the straight sills. Bill Welch

This is a wonderful, fast paced vid on Midwest steam and streamliners in the 1930s with a couple of Runbys of freight trains from the cab of the Zephyr:

Andy attached builder photo. Barry

I found some pictures today which added to my understandings of the D&RGW fleet of 12 panel riveted steel box cars. A class in the 68xxx series were built pre-war and had inside height of 10'4" and

Bob, SN 2319 was one of the ex-WP steel-end cars from series that came to the SN in 1947/48. Most, if not all, appear to have come from WP series 316001-318500, and were 16001-18500 boxcars that were

Hi all. I’m modeling Circleville Ohio, which contained one of the John W Eshelman & Sons feed mills - a substantial facility. I recently came across multi-paged booklet (printed 1947-ish) that

Possibly Oakland...... Not sure if these were theseries mentioned... Bob Webber