Group, The City of Vancouver Archives has two photographs of WIF box cars taken by Walter Edwin Frost. One, as previously reported by Barry Bennett, is WIF 106 photographed December 27, 1952 and is

Just to add to the confusion, the terms Standard and Alternate Standard are being used differently than how the AAR used them. The principal difference between Standard and Alternate Standard as far

Denny, Crescent Lines is the fictional railroad of the Crescent City Model Railroad club. The line runs from N.O. to K.C. Rich Orr

I believe it is a Lone Star Region special run car for the club in New Orleans. Prototype N Scale Models (TM) by George Hollwedel PO Box 143566 Austin, TX 78714-3566 512-579-0539 512-796-6883

I pretty much have every railroad-oriented book, magazine, periodical, annual that I've ever acquired. Including quite a few from before I was born. I find it pretty fascinating to look at the ads

While rooting around for my WIF car, I uncovered a mysterious unbuilt Athearn blue box kit containing an apparent custom-decorated steel 40' reefer with silver ends/roof, dark olive or PG sides with

denny anspach wrote: Well said. Whenever I research a topic, including the use of the trains.com index, I often find that I actually DO need some issue I haven't looked at for years. I rarely

After a solid week of seeking and hearing advice -both bad and good- re: "What To Do" re: collected railroad and railroad-hobby periodicals and paper ephemera here is what I did and why: 1)

Bill, Surprisingly, there are only 3 or 4 freight car photos in the collection. (One might have expected a plethora of ATSF photos; I think most of them ended up at the the Kansas

Tim, Good point... The WIF car needs the ARA rivet pattern and not the X29 pattern. However, a simple change of base kit solves the problem, as the patch panel body need not have the correct rivet

I purchased mine on Ebay for $24.95. Patience is sometimes rewarded. All things considered, I think that is the most I would ever pay for this model. Tim O'Connor

Tim & guys - I am somewhat incorrect in stating that Erie had both AAR Std and Alt Std twin offset hoppers! I was confused by a photo on p. 91 of Vol 2 of the RPC - it shows a photo of Erie

If anyone truly is interested, here's a hobby shop with a 3 car set of these cars http://www.modellbahnott.blogspot.com/ price is now $148.34, up just a little from the retail. Of course the cars are

Hello everyone, Does anyone know if the two groups of 40ft PS-1 boxcars listed below had slack adjusters? CO 16000-16999, 1000 cars in Lot 5983, built December, 1950 ERIE 86500-86989, 490 cars in

this is all very interesting - does anyone have pictures of any of the car ferries? I would love to see some. thanks, Norm Buckhart

Thanks for the info. Very sad news. Tim O'

Perhaps I should start the feedback by saying that the side running boards appear as thick or thicker as those on the traditional blue box tankcars of yesteryear and the underframe does not extend to

Is there any possibility that Ed Hawkins, or some knowledgeable person on this list, could and will provide comments on the specific areas that make this 6000 gallon tankcar unacceptable and

Gentlemen, and others. Thank you for your very informative discourse on this subject. I have emailed Steve Funaro re the HPT&D kit and suggested a re-issue of the kit with, perhaps also WIF decals,

Hi Anyone got a working email for Jerry Appleman, photographer ? Thanks Charlie