Dennis, Thanks for the short and logical historical update.  Al

I have a friend that models in 1 1/2" gauge, he's building a Mathers reefer and has some questions I how you fellas can answer? So I can pass them along to him and take the credit of course : ) Any

Or utilization at all if there happens to be no coal to haul at the moment. Yes, you can rotary dump a wooden gon; I just saw an image on Shorpy a while ago of a wooden gon in a rotary dumper, but

So the goal is higher utilization of empties on the return trips?  If you look at the coal cars going up to Toledo, at best, a sixth of came back down with iron ore and every so often some few more

Three of the B&O M53 box cars show up on the Landmesser hot box list so I "need" some. I immediately pulled out RP CYC #9 to compare FVM illustrations with the photos in the M53 article. It appears

Ahhh, I thought have thought to do this earlier. I just recently purchased this slide on E-bay, and the seller still has his illustration up. This is one of the few (maybe only) photos I've ever seen

Walt Lankenau asked: "Question: the announcement shows two of the earlier paint schemes with a brownish body color, and the later large "B&O" scheme looks more reddish, like oxide red. Did B&O

Excellent! We've heard rumblings about an injection molded wagontop on this list for a while, now. Question: the announcement shows two of the earlier paint schemes with a brownish body color, and the

The 1905 era gons with drop doors didn't have doors over the trucks, so weren't "self clearing" and still required men to shovel about half the load out through the doors. The quest for a self

Thanks, The southeastern Ohio roads had similar composite gons built around 1905.  What drove the need for side dumping vs. between the tracks dumping? . . . running up a trestle and dumping into

A lesson I myself have painfully learned, and therefore I concentrate on the era we share here and I must pass on all those neat things Tangent makes for example...except that nice G31B in PRR CK

No, just run-of-the-mill 41'-6" fifty ton cars. Here's a photo of a member of the next series: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/np/np50558awb.jpg Dennis

That's the ones, Steve, The problem is the smallest "scale" chain available is about 2X too big, and without anything under it just looks light and airy. Plus, you need the little cast roller at the

Are these "big" 46 ft couple distance 70-ton GS gons? . . . like the Erie or C &I M gons? Al Kresse Romeo, Michigan

Friends, So suppose Dennis had tooling cut for a styrene UTLX X-3 (or perhaps an AC&F 10K high walkway tank). Both these cars came in dozens of road names, or at least additional heralds for the UTLX

FWIW ..... IC hopper 68219 was on Train #9 in Alburgh,Vt on 11/16/1947 Conductor was Bockus

Ben-- That Proto B&O hopper kit just made it to the "build someday when I get more info" list. After I see how well it models the base car to put a Duryea underframe under it. As for advocating for

Larry, the models come with 50 ton trucks. That's why they are all incorrect. The Kadee roller bearing trucks are 70 ton, so some of those are correct. (But not all.) Tim O'Connor

Bob Harpe has finished gathering up clinicians and made arrangements for a hotel as well for the Savannah RPM meet. The latest information can be found below. For a few years this show has

The plain bearing trucks on Kadee 8632, P&WV Road #1955, are correct. I wish they made O scale cars. Larry Kline Pittsburgh, PA Tim O'Connor wrote: Oh and I forgot, every one of the Kadee PS-2