I’ve been absorbing info for over 30 years now (49 years old) and I still consider myself a novice. Lol. Brian J. Carlson P.E. -- Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Steve, The steamerafreightcars.com info I had previously did not contain this info. Thanks again, Gary McMills

Thanks Steve, I'm a novice but have been absorbing info for over a year now.

The NYCSHS Company Store is advertising Walthers triple dome tank cars, with a photo of a solid NYC freight train of tank cars, probably wartime. The cars in the photo are single dome. Other than

Trucks look (to me) like the Commonwealth 90T "high capacity" trucks once produced by ECW - #9063 See http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/12/small-modeling-project-nyc-drop-center.html BTW

We made it to the Lake Shore museum at North East, Conneaut and by chance caught the B&LE double sheathed box sitting in Meadville when we got off for gas. To our luck the gentleman who volunteers had

Glen, That's a little too absolutist. In fact, the practice of treating with lime was not as widespread in the US as it was in Canada, where it was required, as has been noted earlier in this thread,

Hi Modelers. Our second O Scale train show and swap meet is only 5 days away. Saturday morning doors open to the public at 9:00. We have two collections being brought to the show and countless

The bottom of stock card is treated by lime when cleaning so the colour disappears very quickly and becomes a chalky white colour Glen

Hey Jim, Bob is here at the St. Louis RPM meet and I can check with him tomorrow. I certainly want to see what he has for Murphy and other stations along the branch. Thanks! Greg Davis Marble,NC/St

Hi, I cannot recall the type of trucks that are on this car. Can anyone provide that information and, OBTW does anyone make this truck in HO? (I'm wondering if it was made by Red Ball or Cape Line

That is a helpful ton of information. Thanks for posting. Jim Pattison

Hi Gary--Go here for all of Ed Hawkins' post war AAR 40' boxcar lists. http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/prototype/frtcars/postwaraarmain.html I agree with Tim on the 7' door 10 panel car. There

Thanks Tim Gary McMills

Ed has produced MANY box car rosters so the one that you want is Ed's compilation of AAR Postwar R+3-4 IDN (1948-1954) tabloid format, or Excel spreadsheet format.

Hi All, I recently pickup some HO scale C&BT 1944 AAR 40' Boxcar kits at an estate sale and I am at a loss for identifying which railroad(s) owned them. They are one with a 7' door and 10 panel

1939 timetable. I don’t have a more recent one without doing some digging. The picture must be 1951 given the combination of a red-white-blue boxcar and steam. Rich Gibson

Would those cattle be considered feeders? They seem pretty thin. Scott McDonald

Those big ones at the bottom look like a lot of "fun" to load -- Ken Akerboom

Ray, Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but what I have is: 116SCR132P It is 1/16" scribed,1/32" thick, 11" long and 3" wide. The scribing runs the long way. Spen Kellogg