Hi All, I have a friend that is looking for an O Scale PRR H32 hopper car. He said Precision Scale made 1. Please reply to bill@... if you have or know where one is for sale. Please state

Spen Kellogg's post referring to me as an "historian" is immensely kind, and indeed quite flattering- but, alas- :-( it is not so. Historians record history. I only talk about it! Denny -- Denny

With all the comments on research I think Larry Kline and Ted Culotta did a fantastic research job on "The Postwar Freight Car Fleet". Ed

Dave, They were at the Detroit National Train Show, where I purchased one of their flat car kits. Upon getting home with it I found that the decals were missing. I've sent an e-mail to them about this

I'd missed the comments Rob quotes, and thank him for the correction. If the truck centers were 6" farther apart than normal, that indeed suggests the kingpins were 3" closer to the car end. I stand

exception to it. History is not just a person's We Railroad Enthusiasts are retrieving and preserving History". Do we occasionally get things wrong? well... there are errors in source data.

Wow... this is just like last time. I suppose at best I can say this is what Kuhn called incommensurability, at worst just plain insulting. Apparently Mike among others misread (?) this as a series

context. If a historical fact has not yet been documented in the fromal academic manner, then the source may be a person or persons of sound memory who can testify to it. For years the academic

Richard Hendrickson writes: "Mike, I think you're missing the point about what a Ph.D. degree represents. Regardless of the discipline in which it is awarded, it essentially certifies that the

Denny Anspach wrote: Dr. Denny, I would be willing to bet that an the road to an MD is every bit as rigorous an education as a PhD. Plus your role in establishing the greatest (in my opinion) railway

If you can assist Ben, that's great. Thanks - whenever your time allows. Since my suggestions are potentially making a mess of things for anyone wanting to know about these cars, I thought I'd just

After reading some discussion about this company's NYC/CNJ..et.al. flat cars, I went to the website, got their address and sent of a check for two sets. The envelope came back undeliverable (address

I have never seen a picture that shows these cars with a RI herald. They were just plain black with RI initials and number. I know that the domes were yellow on the ones in the 70's, but would not

Hi Steve Hile. Thank you very much for your info. Until I get access to the Rock Island rolling stock book, were the tank cars just black with the Rock herald with the assorted dimensional data? Again

Just a couple of thoughts on recent topics. One, I tend to agree with Mike, whether anyone in the group is a Ph.D., an M.D., a J.D. (as I am), a CPA or any other type of professional degree that

Wheel replacement was routine and, in the overall scheme of freight car maintenance, not expensive. Certainly no car owner would have retired a car or sold it second (or third) hand solely because

On Sep 6, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Mike Brock wrote (among other things): Mike, I think you're missing the point about what a Ph.D. degree represents. Regardless of the discipline in which it is awarded,

Yup, currently available from Amazon. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Gary Laakso asked: "Is there a maker in HO for the CGW's ARA designed cast side frame with 4 coil springs and a leaf spring in the center?" Unfortunately, no. Both 50- and 70-ton versions of this

One excellent example of sterile research is the published USRA freight car plans. Virtually every manufacturer who did the SS box cars plus Mainline Modeler and Model Railroader used these plans to