David Henderson wrote: And a clear idea of how the gas station operated! Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Gordon, Here is a nice left side view of Hercules Petroleum tank car, circa 1921. Great rivet detail. http://www.shorpy.com/node/4058?size=_original Regards, David Henderson Sacramento, Ca.

Dear Steve: I am willing to consider this but first I would like to try to get the relevant historical societies involved. I do have an interest in this site too, so I will probably do it. Bill

Bill or Ben or anyone else--How about posting this fabulous resource--and any others--on http://www.steamfreightcars.com/ There is lots of great info there now, and it is organized for more. Steve

Kurt Laughlin wrote: The primary purpose is shown by the common name, "time book." The conductor wrote down his on-duty and off-duty times and any work performed by the train which would

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE A freight train with that many triples is highly unusual, but you could take that to indicate it served an unusual customer. The common use for triples was

I strongly suspect that it is essentially the same as a Wheel Report.Armand Premo

Bruce answered Dean's questions beautifully. A reminder to all that the B&O, PRR, and ACL/SAL online Modeling Magazines have PDFs of my 40-plus page handout on the Wood-Sheathed fleet, which is still

Todd Any chance you could post the photo to the STMFC? I don't think Pullman Standard would mind. Tim O'Connor

I have a b&w photo of these cars showing the roofs as the cars were leaving the PS plant. The roof clearly is painted and it appears to match the car side. That's the reason we've (the CGRHS) have

Jeff,That is part of the problem,sometimes ,yes,mostly no.Locals and extras would need waybills as they directly serve consignees.Armand Premo

Gene, It was a CB&Q X17/18 Westerfield kit #8953. I have another Westerfield truss rod kit, a Southern 36" SU also on the workbench. The floor / underframe is resin. I have uploaded a picture to

Mike Many years ago at the old Nashua Valley Model RR club, we operated from hand written train sheets that just listed the cars, and their destinations. Worked like a charm. Wayfreights simply

Lawrence Rast wrote: The "update" is from last November. Ted had a good supply of most of his decals at Cocoa Beach in January and did not give any indication that they are going out of

Speedwitch's decals for the X29 are VERY nice. Unfortunately, Ted has been going through some "stuff." (See this link: http://speedwitch.com/update.htm) As such, the decals may be difficult to come

If your period is before 1936 or so, some or all should have double board roofs (wood plank) instead of the Hutchins metal roof. Any time pre-WWII would have at some of the cars with a wood roof. At

I've found my handout from Bill's clinic, I'll add some things I've learned from it: The truss rod underframe "...FGEX and WFEX cars would have received cast side frame trucks prior by 1940."

Max, As I said, the kits are listed as in stock. Email, using the address given at RC to order. Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL Not that I could find on their web pages. LHS in some area may

special interest was the three dome tank with different >size domes on the same car. don't remember seeing a "model" that replicates >this. Also if you watch the video there is one "small" single