The "Great Hobby on Tour whatamacallit thingy" is at the River Center in St Paul this weekend. It's for kids, but there were several major manufacturers there. I have a question about the Trix (yes

Guys: I know that Bob's does not have email. Can someone send me his phone number? I am trying to check with him on some NYC photos, and I understand that he will be in OH soon. Thanks! Mike

Richard, Bruce already turned me onto the article(and I had a copy of it, wonders never cease!). I model 1/53, so I just sneak under, I guess. Would the Accurail ARA truck be the next best to the

Phil. Bob does his photos in batch runs, so if you know you will at a show he attends in 3 to 6 months in advance, that is the time to send him a note. Batch runs can be rearranged with

Joe, I wrote a substantial article on both the prototypes and modeling them with the PSC kit in RMC about a decade ago, which I know is in the MRR index because I had occasion to look it up myself

Phil, that depends on the color of the page the photo was on. Bob has told me that photos for which he doesn't have negatives are usually on Purple pages. I'll be seeing him in 3 weeks in Kirtland

Before you go too crazy trying to explain each deviation from the national average, consider the statistical sampling issues. 90 cars out of half a million is not a statistically valid sample and

On a whim, I ordered Precision Scale's HO UTLX type V. Somewhere I have seen a photo of one of these frameless tank cars roaming the rails in the middles 50s. Can anyone refresh my memory? The MRR

Thanks to everyone for the information. Either I overlooked that one (sort of unlikely... I did a BUNCH of damage to my bank account during my walk through the URTX folder! ;> ) or it was one of

thanks for correct identifying this; another feature of the despatch end was a 5-3-1 corrugation whereas I believe the referenced car is 4-4 roger Hinman

Charlie had a fantastic amount of steam era photographs. Does anyone know how the collection is to be disposed of? Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr

I bought some of these way back when and I think that they were R-T-R and I believe came in a box with a cellophane window. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon

Group, I just received an email stating that Charlie Winters died in a hospital Friday morning. No other details. Charlie was a switchman on the Wabash at North Kansas City for years and

Tim, Thanks for breaking the cars down by region. I did check the inbound information that was available and found that the following outbound loaded cars had arrived as inbound loads to Honeggers.

Hey Rod Did you buy the three built up ones at OSW? I was wondering about the steam era use as well and didn't buy them. Neat looking car but felt they were too modern for use on my

Chet French listed the 90 boxcars loaded by the Honegger Feed Mill on the WABASH's Streator Branch at Fairbury IL between January 4th and 29th, 1955. The table below breaks down the ownership of these

I have some Kar-Line kits with custom painted and decaled Athearn bodies, CV trucks and KD #5 couplers included. Did they also sell them built-up? Doug Brown

The fishbelly shape was developed by N&W in 1936 as a way to maintain the low attachment point of the hopper bays to the side sheet while providing more clearance over the truck sideframe, and tie the

The BL class was built by Ralston (caption for 67990 in the 1925 CBC, p.124). They had 7-8 ends rather than the 3-3-3 ends on the USRA cars. The half-door meant that the vertical post just to the

I took pictures of similar cars on the ATSF in the 70's. The sides are "nailable steel", similar to the flooring of many cars. The reweigh dates were from the early 70's. I don't have any proof of