If you read their ad, I don’t know of any RR with gons whose ends opened OUT to be used as loading ramps! The ends on the gon in their photo seem to be like all other drop end gons and open in.

The car number on the model for ATSF is 169627. That series is from the war emergency gondolas Ga-61 169500-169699. The Ga-31 designation series is from ex KCMO cars absorbed in the ATSF in 1929 and

I didn't notice because Mike's 2014 message is saved in Eudora and I was forced out of using Eudora by Comcast a year or so ago... We do seem to revisit things after everyone has

A bit of research reveals that a guy named Mike Schleigh did a bit of a write-up on this model in message 124011 on 4/24/14. Makes a good read! These look like pretty good models. Ed Edward Sutorik

Add Mdt 12089 in old lettering scheme at weehawken undated photo Add mdt 12072 in newer scheme, 57 reweigh from jay williams Add 12191 , in old lettering aug 75 Eli’s photo in one of the morning

Here is an interesting Baby Ruth reefer photo I stumbled on recently. I have no further info about and cannot make out the full NADX car number. The fresh Baby Ruth artwork appear to have been added

https://shop.bachmanntrains.com/images/HO_Scale/74802.jpg My first reaction was "50 foot 6 inch" ?? With drop ends ? That has to be pretty unusual! BUT, it turns out

Photos are rare of the Lackawanna MDT reefers because there were only 20 of them, in non-consecutive numbers in the 12000-series. I've never found a DL&W accounting giving all of the numbers. From

The folks of Columbia Falls, MT would be "shocked" to know they have been moved. A large smelter, owned by Anaconda, went online in 1955. It was served by the GN. It shut down in 1985. Dave Allen

Here is a March 31 YouTube featuring Clark Propst, Dough Harding and Ken Hough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNhhdmvOJFw By the time that you have completed viewing this, Clark will have

Yes, there were mistakes and omissions in MLM, but overall it was an extraordinarily good magazine. I think anyone who has seriously pursued this hobby of railroad history is well aware of how easily

Great chart, Doug, thanks a bunch. Now I can write more accurate waybills. Tony Thompson tony@...

Tim, Thanks Tim. Two additional photos of MDT reefers leased to Lackawanna include Bob’s Photo with a 3/4BL view of MDT 12068 & Joe Collias left-side view of MDT 12178 with new 12-53 stencils

Hello Group! The Bachman model has never been offered with the only prototypes it represents. Try ERIE 14500, PM 18400 and WAG 3200 (all first in their series). The trucks are not 70 ton but it is a

Thanks Charlie. Bud Rindfleisch

Tony, Awesome, thanks much. I do have a hobby shop nearby (still,yes!) that stocks Vallejo, I'll be on the lookout for the magenta. Again, much appreciated! Bud Rindfleisch

On the Santa Fe the number of cattle in a car was governed by the season of the year. More cattle could be accomodated per car if the cattle were headed to the Kansas Flint Hills for fattening than

The PRR one doesn't match the G31A it claims to be. The Santa Fe isn't turning up in Hendrickson's gondola book. Can't be sure about the UP, but I do doubt it. I am curious what it IS. What's nice

Here is a standard chart showing how many animals fit into a stockcar. Doug Harding https://www.facebook.com/douglas.harding.3156/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK8X8Yb8NEAZqbZjHT5z0sA

On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 01:40 PM, Dave Nelson wrote: MM had its own kind of flaws… none of the drawings were dimensioned. Dave, that's simply dead wrong. As a check on memory, I grabbed a dozen or