Photo: N&W Livestock Car 33000 A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=NS2780 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Cars were forty-two feet

A positive message from a Southern California railroad hobby shop owner: https://groups.io/g/ModelRailroadsofSoCalif/message/16456?p=,,,20,0,0,0::Created,,railMaster,20,2,0,80172809 And a story

I read AP news article on model railroading this morning. Maybe our hobby isn’t dying after all!

Around 1981 I worked in a factory where we got it in bags and large cardboard boxes lined with plastic film. It had very light density. Factory made copy machine toner.

I have a friend in need of a Centralia Hobbies SOO Line wood caboose model. Does anyone have a model they are willing to part with? Thanks, Clark Propst

Continuing to consolidate, rationalize, and I decided to backdate slightly (Not as far as Ray Breyer wants me too) so I have some freight cars for sale. List is mostly plastic with some resin. contact

An update on Resin Car Works order processing has been posted on our blog. Don’t miss the upcoming kit teasers. http://blog.resincarworks.com/rcw-vacation/ Eric Hansmann RCW web guy

Carbon black (subtypes are acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black andthermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of heavy petroleum products such as FCC tar,

. . .and a Santa Fe box car at that.8>) Jared Harper

The two tank cars are very close in size - 11053 gallons vs 11313 gallons. I don't know why one has 6 segments and the other 7, but the difference in gallons may not be related

I think the Atlas car is different because it has a six-course tank instead of a seven-course tank as in the photo of DUPX 3257. Also, the tank looks longer than the Atlas tank. The Atlas car also has

Carbon black was produced in large quantities in TX-OK-NM area served by the ATSF from natural gas feedstock. Distances for commodities is almost meaningless - it's just about

Nearly the same size and type of cars (#254 and #3257) - SHPX had a huge number (many hundreds) of these cars Note the built date on the prototype (#3257) is 1948. The

Makes you wonder huh? I mean Kadee is usually -so- meticulous in their tooling but they have made their exaggerated PS-1 doors over and over again. Sad. :-\ --

Bill, it was in the resin building group. Scott McDonald

There was a big Cabot plant just west of Pampa, Texas, served by Santa Fe. Probably other carbon black plants nearby, since there was plenty of gas. One other plant that used natural gas as a

 Hi Rick, Thanks Rick for the info. Wow, delivered to New Jersey in ATSF boxcars - I wonder where the cars were loaded? If loaded on the ATSF, that seems like a long distance to haul carbon

Claus, In the mid seventies, a plant in Monmouth, NJ received Carbon Black, in bags delivered in ATSF Fe-27, and Fe-28 50' boxcars. Rick Dietrichson -----------------------------------------From:

They have, but it looks like an imperfect match: http://archive.atlasrr.com/Images/HOFreightCars/ho11ktankers/0913/20002647_TQ.jpg -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA

 Thanks Garth! Claus Schlund