Last night I asked John Young, who worked for Pepsi for 30+ years, about how the bottling plants handled materials. He said that in the 1950s, only Coca-Cola was shipping pre-mixed syrup to its

I’m glad Ted Schnepf wrote in, because these shipper guides are an excellent resource. I have written about them numerous times in my blog. You can easily find any of the write-ups by using

Eric, Nice job! I'm surprised how 'dense' the information is on this '24 car. I've always associated such verbose lettering with later cars - and yet here we have an early car (I model the late

For Lot 702, the NYCHS has the following scanned drawings as part of a much larger set of drawings for other gondolas: 10532 NYC 710000-710999 Steel Details 702-G 10537 NYC 708000-708499 Genl

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I totally agree about the NYC USRA clone steel gons.Maybe a candidate for 3D printing? Complete drawings are available from the NYCSHS. There was also a rebuilt version that lasted to the PC years

We definitely need more NYC/P&LE gondolas as they were very widely traveled and numbered in the tens of thousands. The below prototypes have never had any model or kit of any kind. One composite

Victor. There are these. https://www.accurail.com/accurail/3700.htm YMMV on if they are accurate enough for you. Brian J. Carlson -- Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Hi Michael and list, I and my company Rails Unlimited will have space at the show. in the 220 aisle. see many of you there. Shippers guides and quality freight cars. Ted Schnepf Elgin,

Hello, My business, rails unlimited, has about 20 different shippers guides, from various railroads all over the country that list industries. My website is railsunlimited.ribbonrail.com. The newest

Were there any 40 ft. (40-42 ft.) standard design gons other than USRA that could be mass produced in plastic for multiple roads in HO? (Of course, I'm referring to the steam or transition era.) It

Hello Eric and Group! These Lackawanna cars were discussed a few months back. Member Lester Breuer described building one of Pierre's offerings in one of the 'blogs' Lester publishes. See April 7,

I’d love to meet you and others, but I won’t be attending. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

Always enjoy meeting freight car freaks in person, so if any of you are attending Trainfest this coming weekend in Milwaukee, send me an email off line and we can swap mobile numbers. This will be my

I recently completed the Westerfield Models HO scale resin kit for this classic prototype. As with many of our models, there’s a story within a story. It’s the latest feature on my DesignBuildOp

This link is for the Sanborn Maps for page 15 of Beckly from 1922. It is likely this is the most recent map for this location. Page 15 is the most interesting of the set.