Several years ago, I produced an HO Tennessee Central boxcar as-delivered in 1941 with flat, riveted roof and with what most modelers know as PS-0 ends (correct nomenclature is “proprietary Pullman

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 09:16 AM, Donald B. Valentine wrote: I gather that rebuilt USRA double sheathed cars are those with eight panels per side while those with ten panels per side are rebuilt

Using a photo of Rutland stock car #1960 to guide me I have detailed and damaged this F&C kit. So that I could damage the upper boards I substituted styrene strip of the same size—hopefully avoiding

Ken, From the July 1958 ORER. Jim Brewer

As discussed innumerable times on the list the Atlas rebuild is a mongrel that matches nothing out of the box. It’s a tooling that should be thrown away. The tichy rebuild is good for P&LE. Brian

Ken, Now you have the July 1934 B&M pages for your collection (attached PDF). Dave Bott Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 6:24:11 PM, you wrote: I've been working on putting info of all the B&M freight

Hi folks, In looking over what is available in HO scale for models of rebuilt double sheathed boxcars I've come up with a number of questions. I'm familiar with he early Sunshine kits for this

Bob, Thanks for posting the American Tar Products photo. Flash back to my days as a young man unloading tar from steam heated cars into steam heated pumps and steam jacketed piping at an Alcoa

Maybe this information from Sunshine will help. JimH

Here's a builder's photo of PE 3475. That crazy handbrake linkage was an adventure. Luckily the guys at OERM helped with some pictures of equipment at the museum. -- ------------------- RJ

Hi Ken, This is an awesome piece of research you have done. The list of ORERs you have consulted for data is equally impressive! Claus Schlund

Photo: American Tar Products Tank Car 1100 Photo courtesy of Don's Depot: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1401/atpx1100.jpg Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I've been working on putting info of all the B&M freight equipment on the web: https://www.bmrrhs.org/freight-car-data/ As a lot of the cars cover the era of this list, I'm hoping this is an

Ted's doing fine. He's real busy these days. Brooklyn is a stressful place to be, but he's managing just fine. HH

Not that frequent of a problem during harvest on that part of the Palouse. Tom Dempsey On Monday, May 18, 2020,

Great modeling, thanks for sharing. Nate Gould Putnam, Conn

I am trying to scratch build the ACL Watermelon Car starting with an Ambroid Kit from the 50s [One of my Cars for my NMRA AP Cars certificate]. This kit has all the wood pieces but no car details like

Photos: C&O Ventilated Boxcars 86796 & 86602 Undated photo from the Columbus Metropolitan

Friends, I'm taking a brief break from the C&O, and today offering three Virginian photos for your interest and approval. All photos were taken circa 1982-1985 or so by myself. Pulpwood car 809 was

Just a reminder, I am selling a bunch of KITS on e-bay. Auctions ending this Sunday include Red Caboose Pennsy X29 and Mather Reefer KITS. Sunday afternoon I will be launching actions for early