The NMRA has some builder's photos, but searching is problematic as sometimes you have to wade through collections. Not easy to narrow searches and get good results. http://archive.nmra.org/ Curt

I had great response from several of the list members but am needing the top 6-8 scale locations for the following private car owners and railroads: B&O, BM, C&O, CN, CP, Erie, FGEX, GATX, GTW, GN,

No S**T! Clark Propst

Chris, The first 200 steel cars were repainted in the late 1940s from mineral red to medium grey with red lettering . John Riddell

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 5:15 AM O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> wrote: On Oct 30, 2020, at 9:46 PM, Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote:  Hello Everyone- New resin ends for a long planned

Thanks for the fascinating historical details Bob. I have recently acquired the S scale kit and look forward to building it to correct details. Am I correct in interpreting your painting comments

Mark Rickert reminded me there was a multi-part series in RMC several years ago on these cars. Looking back through my notes I found these plus two other articles. Bob Chaparro Hemet,

Thanks Ray. DL&W is another 36’ boxcar still around in the mid-50s and might fit my layout operations better than the D&H since DL&W had an interchange with the PRR in Northumberland, PA. I

Heith, Thanks for the CA photo. I got a copy of the UP/OSL/OW CA caboose drawing on Don Strack's website - took the pdf file to FedEx/Kinkos store & printed out on 36" wide paper - cost about $10.

42-inch gauge

Narrow gauge I believe. Hard to tell from the photo. Rob

Gary Townshend commented: "The cars were originally developed by 1937, the year the test run was made, bringing two car loads of frozen fish back from Prince Rupert BC to Montreal PQ*. As Supervisor

Photo: GTW Gondola 145000 (1937) A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3353756 This photo can be

Photo: CN Reefer 209232 (1939) A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3299123 This photo can be

Photo: C&O Hopper 127814 (1935) A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=4118768 This photo can be

Photo: Newfoundland Railway Refrigerator Car 306 (Undated) A photo from the National Archives of

We already have the term "Extreme Modeling", so maybe we need another term, like "Rabbit-hole Modeling", as in "it should be easy to take this plastic kit/car and tweak it a bit to make a nice

 Hi Larry and List Mermbers, I had this same problem, here is what I found, my desktop computer has an older copy of the Firefox browser, and I saw everything EXCEPT the image! Using my laptop

Bob, And the CN cars did get down into the US. In James H. Harrison's SACRAMENTO NORTHERN GALLERY there is a photo of one taken about 1956 on the SN (pulled by a GE steeple cab!) at Lake Temescal near

I always kidded Stan that he should change his name to Ralph Rydarowicz ; )) Clark Propst