Steve Hile wrote: GATC had a repair plant at Colton, California, likely the "C". I have seen photos of GA tank cars with either C or COLN on them. Tony Thompson tony@...

Ken Adams wrote: Do you mean the onboard motors and drive belts in the PFE car? The question was about the motors that shippers kept in their facility to use with the original mechanical

PFE was responsible for maintenance motors and fan belts in 1971-72. I worked the PFE payables desk during that period and processed many payments to outside vendors for rewinding burned out motors

I have been looking at a lot of Swift reefer pictures recently, partially for reweight dates and locations. I have seen a number of cars with EC which makes good sense as East Chicago,

Advice from somebody who can't see reds very well -- I have four Sunshine Frisco cars that will soon be ready to paint. The Sunshine instructions (based on Floquil) suggest a color similar to oxide

Our club here in Houston is helping sponsor a model railroad club at a local middle school. The kids are building modules and learning how to do things. We include them on our layout tour and support

Dave nice Dave! Way to fiddly for me. Clark Propst Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Dave, I respectfully disagree with your position. Our local model railroad club has at least a half-dozen members under the age of 20 and they are very enthusiastic about the hobby. Most are active

Around 1988, I saved my allowance and did chores for a couple of months in order to afford an atlas RS 11 at $45. Even then I was modeling the steam era. Today that same locomotive would be $100

Well, we try. The real problem, as I see it, is the disappearance of $40 locomotives to pull those cars. Dennis Storzek Accurail, Inc.

I have a couple of Frisco (SL-SF, a road I'm not familiar with) boxcars to paint and want to use SCII. Any recommendations on paint color. I model 1953 so anything from the 40's through 1953 is

Tony - Thanks for answer -- Bill Parks Cumming, GA Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida

My understanding is that shippers owned those motors and fan belts. PFE advised on what to buy. Tony Thompson

Interesting, I guess it could be my monitor, but at 32.5” I (apparently mistakenly) thought it was showing things in accurate proportion. Schuyler

Lets rethink this for a moment. Walthers has brand new Accurail boxcars on sale for $12.98. Not everyone starts out with super detailed RTR $50 cars. In fact almost no one does. As a married grad

Old guys (like us, now) have been crying about the death of the hobby since I was a child. I read Super Bowl tickets cost more than $6,000. Is football dying? No. I think the

I don't remember Craig's fix, but here's mine. Take a Yarmouth ladder stile with 16" spacing, and separate it into its two component strips. Three or flour trips through the PE bending tool will do

RIGHT ON, tell it like it is, between the passing of the present generation and the increasing prices, only the rich and the millennials will be able to afford this "hobby", but i forget, this hobby

Get them involved in operations, which requires little to nothing, and you have a reasonable chance that they will come back to the hobby later in life. Get the ones who are involved in making

Whistling past the graveyard (literally). Any hobby with an average age of 68 is in trouble and with models of freight cars costing $40-$50 a pop there is no pulling in teenagers or young adults.