There are very are one or two pre-1960 shots in the FF NP collection. There is one really nice Alba Bloss color shot ca. late 1950s of NP 30603, a 50-ft single sheathed auto box, rebuilt to single

AAMX are the reporting marks of Andrew Merrillees, Limited, of Toronto, Ontario. They are still in business today, still selling mostly used railway

Fred, Nicely put. I think it was one of our glorius leaders, Bob Sleicher, who said we are "miniture historians". I did an abbreviated version of my Naperville clinic on building techniques for

Hello all, I am getting rid of some of my last Kadee trucks and instead of ebay I thought I could try this group. There are two pairs of Andrews trucks with solid back wheels. These are painted box

Thanks very much for posting that link! That's a great history and more complete than I have stumbled across in a couple of half-hearted attempts. For my modeling efforts, my assumption is the tank

Bob, CB&Q and Rock Island. Not a lot but enough. Most of the photos are from the outer edge of our time span. Rob Manley

Ed Mines wrote: There some scans of Paul Dunn photos in the B&O freight car section. These are from the 1950's. Bob Witt

For STMFC'ers who would like to get a jump on getting these latest offerings from Brian's TMW, I am offering them as bare pairs (less wheelsets). I also have replenished earlier Swing Motion Caboose

Anyone know what kits Martin Lofton will be bringing to the Orange Empire Railway Museum meet Saturday? Jay Bingham Pacific Palisdes, CA

You're quite right, and I see now that my post was misleading. Electric fans didn't appear until ca. 1950. I meant to cite the 1943 date only as a revision date on the folio sheet, not to assert

Sorry, Jim, all of the P/L schemes on the P2K models represent 1940s through mid-1950s, and by 1960 all of those cars had gone to the great freight yard in the sky. By that time, Mather had been

Doug - Thanks for the info but I'm getting a copy for free from another mamber. - Al

Doug- The Hell with the steel drop-bottom gons..... look at the Waycar in the far corner of the picture!!! It appears to have a full window on the side beyond the cupola in what, on a normal car,

Al, To order a CD Rom ( ($10.00 for S&H): 1. Click link from Michael Bishop 2. Click one of the HP Scanjet 4600 … links under HP Scanjet 4600 Scanner series 3. Click link for Operating

Guys - The CSS&SB cars #1258 and #1266 look a lot like B&O cars from the 1923-constructed series of USRA clones B&O #251500 - #253499. Note the wider, vertical corner posts at the drop ends, and the

The first horizontal-shaft geared hand brakes, the Ajax Type 13039, were introduced in 1926; similar so-called "power" hand brakes were offered by other manufacturers in the late 1920s and early

Ben, Good observation with the lower door track rollers. Any idea as to the use of this car subsequent to AAMX ownership, or dates of ownership? The topic of the Ertl cars and the other posts

Larry Kline wrote: If no one has a copy, Larry, I can get one here from the UC Library. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

I'm looking for a copy of the Railway Age article about the 20,000 gallon coal tar tank cars owned by Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. The reference in the 1946 Car Builders Cyclopedia is: Railway Age,

"Standard Tank Car Journeys" (1921?) lists several liquids used in the manufacture of explosives. They are: acetone, alcohol, ammonia, benzol, toluol, carbolic acid, nitric acid, glycerin and