As to the boxcar, one from this series is on display at the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum in California: https://www.slorrm.com/QR-1200PCRy.html Advisory...A Plug. If you are in the neighborhood,

Ike, It depends, NARA San Bruno has ODT records from the San Francisco Field Office. That is where I found the detention report that was the basis of my blog post. Some of the Office of Defense

So, what are you modeling? That is what makes the difference. Local petroleum dealers only took a couple of tank cars at a time. Refineries and tank farms took dozens, if not hundreds, of tank cars

Well done Rich, Are you satisfied with the color? It looks good to me Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

A very nice-looking car with those modifications Thanks for sharing Goerge Toman

The reason behind those long oil movements by rail in the east during the war years, was due to German submarines lurking off the coast of the USA. This made the usual shipping of crude oil from Gulf

The Southern Railway group’s archives contain quite a few orders for “MAIN” trains and freight movements. Understandably, most of the specific movement records are on the Southern but all/most

Someone mentioned Sinclair on the UP in Wyoming. This is CNW's yard serving Standard Oil in Casper Wyoming. These would almost all be UTLX cars. Possibly many of these can be

Thanks Tony I was not aware of these cars being available. Is this outfit still in business? I would like two of the Kit 101 which his site shows as sold out. Do you know if he has rerun these or is

Bob, I think Brian might be correct Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:49 AM, Jack Mullen wrote: As others have said, the brake being discussed is the staff type, in which the lever is lifted, then moved in a horizontal arc to rotate the staff,

I am confused. The drawing definitely shows tongue-in-groove (interlocking) boards. Just above where it says "Section Through Side Plate". Are you guys referring

Fair points Gene. I note the vertical edges of lettering on the car side in the builders photo do not waiver at the supposed beveled board edges, so it must only be an odd lighting situation? Rob

I put the Branchline car info in the wrong place. Sorry about that. The Hart car I'm referring to is the Alaska car. I believe the 1937 Car Builders may have had the plans. My 1940 does not. C&NW were

Rob You might be reading a bit too much into the builder's photo. The pictures I have seen including the one attached suggest traditional tongue and groove siding without any groove. I included a

Lloyd Keyser wrote: Lloyd, you must not be aware of Dry Creek models. See my blog post: https://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-new-dry-creek-sp-work-cars.html Tony Thompson

Yep that’s an MDC. Brian J. Carlson -- Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Branch Line did the car in their Blueprint series. One in the yellow and green and the other in the grey scheme. I assembled four each and they do take a little work besides changing to AB brakes. The

The Ralph Hallock photo collection at the Colorado Railroad Museum contains quite a few photos of wartime oil trains. Two examples attached. Most were taken in 1943 (date not further defined) on

Bob, Branchline also decorated other manufacturers kits, before they gave us their boxcars and Pullmans. You probably do have a custom decorated MDC model. Richard Hendrickson turned one into a