Note the bottom end of stakes could be “tapered” to fit into a pocket on a flat car or gon. But probably they would start with something a bit closer to size than a 10x10”? -- Ken Akerboom

You'd ask the same question if you unloaded a Suburban or F150 from a Bi-Level autorack. Answer: Hire skinny people. Bob Allan

Clark, is it possible to RE-ORDER the list by DATE ? That might reveal something about seasonal traffic. Tim O'Connor -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I wondered the same thing. The back door perhaps lined up with the box car doors? -- Brian Stokes North Point Street in Proto:48

Measuring a stick from the nearest box, it's about 10" x 10" in HO. Hth, Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

I hoping that someone might be able to tell me what HO scale size a wooden matchstick might be? In addition to modeling scrap wood for lumber cars, I'm wondering about stakes for gondola loads and

Further to my earlier post regarding the PGE’s 40' wood refrigerator cars, I have come across an old notebook with some information I extracted more than 45 years ago from a Pacific Great Eastern

Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcXUD_44jHc especially beginning about 10:00 into it. J. Stephen Sandifer

Thanks to Ed and Roger for the information in their posts. To round out the story on PGE wood refrigerators, here are a couple of Ernie Plant photos of the other two series: 801 - 803, built new for

Maybe he was shipped with it. ;-P Chuck Happel “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” Bertrand

Practice, practice, practice. Tony Thompson tony@...

How did the driver get into the bus to drive it out of the car? Through a side window? Steve Kay

Here are spuds from the Landmesser M&StL 'hot box' report. Don't fret over cars listed twice please. RR NO_ SERIES TYPE1 CARGO DATE ART 18568 17000-19999 RS potatoes "11-20-49" ART 20771

A very nice presentation and model, Lester. I know resin stock car kits require another layer of patience to remove flash and to get the details right. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Whoops! That derrick shows up in Bob Chaparro's submission on 5/30/21 of the end-door boxcar, not in the Miller Bros. video.... -Chuck

I'll second Scott's enthusiasm. I haven't watched the helium subject videos yet, but I have looked at the Milller Bros. production. It was absolutely captivating since so much of it centers on what

Photo: NKP Gondola 65072 With Wood Beam Load Photo from the Lane County History Museum: https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_796/009/gn2943.jpg Description: “Freight car

Hi Bob, I lived on Long Island (NY) in the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s. When we lived in the Bellerose section of Queens, wen could look out our back windows onto a farm that grew, among other

That sounds like it... I read it in the 1960's when I was reading through my Dad's train magazine collection. Tim O'Connor -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

That Trains article may have been Case History of a Spud Train, by David P Morgan, September, 1953, page 60. Jim van Gaasbeek Irvine, CA