Andy wrote: “I have been searching for a source of HO scale sheet piling pieces, and having found one in Germany that produces a fantastic product, I am ready to create some mill gon loads for my

My apologies if this topic has been covered before. I've used the group search function and have searched the internet at large and I am unable to find the answer. Is the silver GATX "Flying A" paint

While just beyond my 1944 modelling era, the line of condemned Alton 17xxx steel underframe DS boxes is relevant for me as the 17000-17998 40' IL , 8' IH 2730 CUFT boxes wer just over half of the

Ralston Steel Car Company of Columbus built 1,000 of these cars for the Kanawha & Michigan, between July and September 1912. Numbered 7500-8499, these cars were later relettered (NYC) and renumbered

Thanks for the information David. I always thought they were ex-PRR Gla's. Chet French Dixon, IL

Hello group, Beyond a brief mention within this 12 y.o. discussion of using the HO Walthers 50' single sheathed automobile boxcar kit to represent an IC prototype series, I have found little further

Please excuse the multiple posts. In between the flood of emails for Black Friday, Please let me remind you that we will be announcing the 2022 Shake n Take project on Saturday evening. We

HO scale can load for a PTSX (Proleride Transportation Systems) recycled steel quad hopper. Aluminum foil tops from canned drinks, mainly Sanpellegrino, and a few other miscellaneous foil sources

Yeah, funny how the bad estimates were always on the high side. Tony Thompson

Interesting, Thanks Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Open-top freight cars can also be overloaded by volume. And , this doesn't look like a scrapyard location; it's way too clean. Notice the house car coupled onto the gon. I think the

Hudson, I would agree. I tend to think that the scrap on the ground is what is left of the pile that was being loaded into the car. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, Al From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io

I think a load of tin can scrap would be hard to overload, lots of air space. -Hudson

Fenton, I've built both. Run them for awhile then sold the Sunshine car. With the 6' door it didn't have the character of the Speedwitch model. Clark

Looks like this car may have been an overload. The scrap on the ground is an attempt to adjust the weight. Scrap dealers were notoriously bad at judging weight in my field days. Bob Allan Omaha

Tiny lengths of fat metal rod or slices of the Right gauge of hypodermic needle for tins, then model oil cans from oblong of strip wood decal led with microscale decals from a gas station set. My

First thing I thought of when I saw the photo was the clubhouse my cousins and I built on family land next to the Rock Island's Keokuk & Des Moines Division in Pella, Iowa. We called it Railroad Club

https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/memory/id/79239 A couple of 50 ton gons apparently being unloaded at the the Columbus State Hospital (aka the Central Ohio Hospital

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 11:21 AM, charlie9 wrote: Just put some Reynold's Wrap in the wife's blender.Charlie - I remember an article (I think in MR) 20 years ago, or so, about modeling scrap tin

Some of these cars apparently survived up to 1953. It looks like both the wood and steel side versions could be useful for most steam era modelers given their longevity and abundance. -Phil