I have just started working on an HO scale "RTR" Walthers REA express reefer model. The underbody detail consists of various lumps representing the major air brake parts – period (shades of Blue

Be aware that Mr. Vollrath and Mr. Winters knew each other well and traded many images, it was Mr. Vollrath who came away with copy negatives. This is fine if such copy negatives are the only

Tim, Actually it was originally a raw clay hopper. Mainline Modeler had an article on them. Rich Christie

Tim, This looks lik an upgraded SRR hopper built by Pullman in 1956 in the 70300 - 72049 series. In 1971, 70 of these cars, including 70479 were rebuilt with drop bottom hopper doors installed. Not

Just a regular hopper with the bottoms replaced with drop doors. Southern converted a number of these in the '60s (and maybe later) for clay loading. They are listed as "crude earth" hoppers in

Is this a Seley (?) hopper, or... what? Look at the date of the photo: 1998!! http://cgi.ebay.com/SOUTHERN-OLD-STYLE-HOPPER-70479-RAILROAD-SLIDE-/140522820348 Tim O'Connor

That's great, thanks Bob. Jim Wolf

Guys The Savannah Proto Meet is coming up in 2 weekends, March 25-26. If you have not made plans to attend please do so know. We are hoping to have a great meet and would like to see many new faces

Prohibition was in place for 3 years when Great Northern issued its Classification and Numbering of Locomotives and Equipment List No. 24. It listed 42 beer cars in 6 different classes. Apparently,

The Richard Hendrickson article in RMJ which Chris references includes the roster of hoppers from the Lane article. Pieter Roos

Thanks for the information on the MILW flat car. That narrows it down. BTW, that McKeen car is the "Kulshan" which was originally bought by the Bellingham Bay & British Columbia. In 1912 the BB&BC

Dennis, since this is my first Savannah meet I would like to join the group for meals. Seafood Friday evening is good for me. I am driving down Friday morning so I will be there between 9:00 and

Having some thousand wheel reports ,I have come to the conclusion that location is the most important factor in freight car distribution.Another factor is the size of the railroad being

looking CM&StP bulkhead flat car. I've been trying to identify what series that car belongs to but with no luck. Olympic Portland Cement Co. OPCCo has a large plant on the northside of Bellingham (and

I have built 4 of the Sunshine cars in the yellow paint scheme. I use Polly Scale paints as well. The Sunshine instructions say to use a mixture of 4/5 reefer yellow and 1/5 reefer orange. I used

I've analyzed the same conductor's train book I mentioned earlier, this time for the 139 box cars in the sample. This isn't a very big sample, but it does yield some interesting conclusions. I've

The Atlas 36' wood reefer looks to be a close match to a photo I have of SRLX 3707. I has the general look; I haven't done measurements,but it has the same roof facia, 4-hinge doors, exposed

I've just uploaded the actual drawings for the Verona 70 ton truck used under the NYC Hopper Car. I have other photos of the Verona drawings as well if you're interested. The Pennsylvania Archives

I recently found the following for Bellingham WA http://www.downtownbellingham.com/documents/RailroadWalkingTour.pdf If you go to the far right of page 1 and zoom in you'll see a really neat

Cover conveyors, rail cars, storage, and delivery. From 1948. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29964/m1/1/ KL