I built and upgraded Milwaukee Road (MILW) single-sheathed (SS) box cars 716862 and 717024 with information and photo help from others. I upgraded these cars with the usual detail parts such as wire

Can anyone who knows James Platt from Minnetonka, MN, contact me off list with James' correct email. I'm trying to respond to him and his email address bounces back to me Thanks -- Pierre

Plus, some nice looking dents in the bottom end panel. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

The label "Egyptian bricks" on the photo may refer to the fact that southern Illinois has historically been referred to "Little Eqypt". Witness the towns of Cairo, Thebes, etc. Even the Southern

Photo: Weighing Erie Boxcar 62106 Photo from Morning Sun Books: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0600/7521/products/049_ErieRR_Official_V1_softbook.jpg?v=1476385483 Appears to be only one pair of

Brick Load Photo courtesy of R.J. Ihle on the Facebook Railroad Images of Bygone Days group. He comments: “One of 47 Illinois Central box cars loaded with Egyptian bricks circa 1927 in

Jim, Broadly speaking, it is possible. Two situations resulted in lease fleets owning a competitor’s designed car. First, mergers. Cars from absorbed fleets often came from a wide variety of

Here is the original E-Mail notification: You have to have a login and password to get to their online shop. But the E-Mail provides enough info, I believe. Jim van Gaasbeek Irvine, CA

Alex, I don’t see the photo you mentioned… can you provide a link? The NYCHS basically decided to become a competitor of other on-line hobby shops. Accuracy has never been a big issue

Looking at the ad, there is a GATX-marked car, and a UTLX-marked car. Would both companies have had cars of the same design. And is this model an accurate representation of a three-compartment

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