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 On 5/31/2021 12:19 PM, Jim and

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

1. Message 154950 can be retrieved by using the groups.io Messages page, and searching for the message number. It appears near the bottom of the page of the search results. 2. I can't see how there

-- I can't get to your 154950. post. I only get a post which references 154950.- not the post. Thanks okladivjohn@...

I recall reading articles with photos about the potato rush from San Joaquin valley. As I recall, it was Santa Fe hauling refrigerator cars over Tehachapi. John Holmes

Potatoes most definitely can travel more than 2,000 miles! They come in many varieties, and come into season at different times of the year. There was a great TRAINS magazine