Photo: B&O Tank Car X10 A Doug Lilly photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/149706553@N05/27073486079/in/album-72157689269937726/ Caption: "The Baltimore & Ohio kept company-service tank cars at some

One of the Mason City Ia. plants shipped bagged cement to their satellite facility in the Twin Cities by box car till the UP screwed everything up after they took over the CNW. Bags went out on flat

Thanks Bill! It looks great. As a UP modeler, I’m sure I can think of uses for a yellow primer (e.g. UP stock cars). Regards, -Jeff

C&O 9500 9500-9999 XM empty "3-16-48" C&O 9948 9500-9999 XM lumber "2-1-49" C&O 9948 9500-9999 XM lumber "2-5-49" Above are

C&O 9500-9500 were very short. The height over the running board was 13' 3 9/16", which is a pretty picky measurement, but that's what is on the GA drawing in Shaver's book. My 1959 ORER gives the IH

Very nice detailing of this car. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

In the San Jacinto Valley, CA, the arrival of the railroad in 1888 facilitated the inbound movement of construction materials for the Hemet Dam, located above Hemet in Garner Valley. The dam was

Clark and all, The Lehigh Portland Cement plant in Mitchell, IN was on the B&O. the Monon interchanged with the B&O at Mitchell and both railroads provided covered hoppers to the plant for bulk

Has anyone tried using any of the craft acrylics in their air brush? There are many selections of color. Be careful to not "go cheaper" - for most of them there is a direct relationship between the

I seem to remember that there was a height issue as in too short. I built one of these years ago and it just looked too short to me. I must have compared it to published drawings and concluded that

Clark, How do I find out if ends are available? Francis A. Pehowic, Jr.

A few years ago I painted John Deere, Caterpillar and International Harvester HO scale models. Maybe the way I did it was cheating, but it worked. In all 3 cases I went to those respective

They were before my time Mont. Bet you could Google them? They have to go back a ways. I do have a photo of cloth sacks on a packing machine, don't know if it's dated? I have photos of paper sacks

Clark: Do you have contact info for Keith? Or can you act as go between? I also had a reservation with Caboose...no joy... Thanks, Paul Bizier

Looking good Clark! Like the black doors, ends and roof Nicely done. George Toman

I was looking to paint a Harvester/Combine model a bright shade of red that I custom mixed and a Cat D7 yellow as well. I could not get the red to look the way I wanted and tried an experiment using

Clark, I had never heard of shipping cement in barrels. I know early cement loads shipped by truck consisted of bags stacked on flat bed trailers. I just figured rail shipments were bags

Cement was shipped in barrels for years. Many company's logos were round to fit the top of a barrel. Cement was still being sold by the barrel into the 60s. Maybe the 70s? Four sacks of regular

I built a C&O model years ago using a Des Plaines Viking roof kit. I used Keith Reterrer (sp) ends and doors. Also used his 3 panel doors on M&StL auto cars. Talked to Kieth about his castings at CCB.

The track is still inside the Martin Bomber Building. I used to go regularly to Global Weather Central (or Center depending on the commander at the time) to coordinate backup activities. One