If you know which issue of RMJ, MRding, or ProtoModeler you want to download, type in http://magazine.trainlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/abc_yyyymm.pdf where abc = rmj = Railmodel Journal

Nor me. Schuyler

Thanks to all for the photos. Good point about the running board brackets. Of course I was focused on the somewhat unusual lateral support brackets. I think I might have to go with shim brass strips

Nice job, Lester. Nice sentiment too. Bill is still doing what he always wanted to....inspire us to keep building. gary roe quincy, illinois

That is an excellent photo John. It highlights the 3-piece running board supports found on so many boxcars. Here in 2020 we are still using big square blobs on our models for supports. I wish I had

Lester, Thanks for another of your inspiring builds, but also for your inspiring words. Like you, I have cars (and engines) built by deceased friends that keep them close to my heart. Bill Bill

I have completed the build of a National Scale Car mini-kit for Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha (CMO) steel boxcar 37640 with resin ends and unique Duryea underframe you install on a plastic

This is all I have but you may have seen them already. -- Ben Scanlon Tottenham, England

Rob, I didn't try to download. Instead I took screen shots using Mac's "Grab" tool in the "selection" mode. Using the tools on Trainlife's site, I first rotated the images 90 degrees to get a complete

Those Repack stencil rectangles are also discussed in the SPH&TS book on painting & lettering SP and PFE freight cars (page 127). The drawing for the stencil was issued in March 1938. I have never

This photo, taken in Longmont, Colorado, has an EJ&E twin hopper in the background, adding more to the mentions of roaming

Not directly. A work around, I have been printing to pdf, either select pages, or the entire volume. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Caswell stock cars, I believe https://id18538.securedata.net/westerfieldmodels.com/merchantmanager/index.php?cPath=130_436 And a thoroughly entertaining film as always with Buster Keaton. Thanks - Tom

Here is a photo of one of the cars renumbered with a stores department stencil. The Frisco Lines coon skin emblem in this 1947 photo matches the 1940 lettering in the previous photograph. John

I've attached what I've got, Marty. I "think" this is a shot from 1940 St. Louis. It's as close as I can come (these cars are pretty elusive). Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

Is it possible to download the magazines from the Trainlife site? I've not been successful in trying to do so. Robert Bogie

Tim, I see what you mean. I wonder if you have to be signed up as a member to have it work. I'm not, and I don't like signing in to sites for security reasons. In any case, I used the site extensively

Anyone have a prototype photo (or reference to one) of these cars as they would have looked in the 1930s? The Westerfield kit (their no. 11251) has a couple of builders photos, but would like to see a

Silent Film With Santa Fe Livestock Cars & Scenes Courtesy of Steve Rippeteau, here is a link to the 1925 Buster Keaton film, Go West! https://youtu.be/AIEMzrd4LTQ The scenes of interest are at

I just finished up some IC boxcars with the square corner. I also did a Centralia built Pullman Kit car. Tim Alund